shaking his head. That was the reaction of Brita Piovesan, spokeswoman for the citizens’ initiative “Tobacco factory – we’re talking” to the news from Vienna that two of the four buildings of the “Quadrill” project currently being built on the premises of the Linz tobacco factory have been awarded the “climate-active” seal of approval became.
It is absurd that “the project, which is harmful to the urban climate, is virtually rewarded with a climate seal of approval”. “That doesn’t help either the price or the urban climate,” said Piovesan in the direction of Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens), who still doesn’t understand one thing. Why take the two smallest components out of a high-rise complex for a separate assessment and simply keep silent about the rest. An assessment of such large projects only makes sense holistically.
For the Linz Greens, the awards with the bronze standard are the “possible worst”. If just two buildings achieve bronze, but the other buildings, including the high-rise building, apparently do not even have this qualification, then it shows that parts of the “Quadrill project” do not even meet the minimum standards of climate-friendly construction, said club chairman Helge Langer.
For him it should be a matter of course that buildings of this size meet the gold standard of the climate active criteria. Langer continued that it was disappointing that the company was satisfied with the result achieved.
Source: Nachrichten
