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Sustainability Statement 2025
Vonovia is a residential real estate company that takes social and economic responsibility. We provide people with contemporary homes that meet modern standards, while doing our part to protect our climate. we incorporate innovative aspects of environmental, economic and social sustainability into our new construction projects – and always aim to continuously improve. Whether new residential construction, climate or demographic change: the housing industry plays a central role when it comes to the overall social challenges of our time.
Urban areas are in urgent need of homes. We are helping to close this gap – through densification, vertical expansion and new construction. Thanks to its 2018 takeover of BUWOG – a separate entity in the company with new construction expertise – Vonovia has access to more than 70 years of development experience.
Our serial-modular construction approach allows us to specifically reduce construction costs. The high degree of industrial prefabrication of facades and walls enables significantly shorter construction times. At the same time, we require fewer skilled workers on-site overall, which further reduces total costs. With this serial construction method, we can quickly create high-quality, affordable housing with minimal effort. Furthermore, we use wood as a sustainable building material that sequesters a high proportion of CO2. Our timber-frame structures are assembled directly on-site, which further minimizes on-site work and noticeably reduces the burden on local residents.
We therefore see great potential in modular hybrid construction. That is why we have invested in Gropyus. This Austrian prop-tech company is driving the digitization and automation of serial new construction to the highest level. We learn and improve from house to house—thanks to digitization. The modules are prefabricated at a dedicated production facility in Richen using state-of-the-art robotics. On the construction sites, the modules - which are already equipped with windows, doors, and cable ducts - are assembled.
Last year, we began a redensification project on Hildegardstraße in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Thirty-four apartments are being built here. We are also currently building 158 apartments on Schlichtallee in Berlin-Lichtenberg. These apartments cater to all needs: 3 one-bedroom, 63 two-bedroom, 75 three-bedroom, and 17 four-bedroom units. A project in Dresden is currently in the pipeline. Here, BUWOG is building on behalf of Vonovia in collaboration with Gropyus as a service provider.
Our aim is to create affordable and climate-neutral homes. By doing so, we are doing our part to protect the climate and providing new homes where they are urgently needed.
Our project developments include purchasing land without a development plan or dedicated purpose, completing new buildings, constructing new buildings on our own land, and the vertical expansion and refurbishment of existing residential buildings in our neighborhoods.
We either rent out new-build properties ourselves or sell them to third parties.
New building Metzer Strasse, Dortmund