The city council of Sulzbach/Saar was informed at the IfaS about the zero-emission mobility center and other environmentally friendly technologies
Mayor Michael Adam visited the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld together with members of the Sulzbach/Saar City Council and other private individuals on Friday afternoon to see how climate protection and regional value creation can be put into practice in a very concrete way.
Prof. Heck, Managing Director of the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS), welcomed more than 30 guests at the Zero-Emission Mobility Centre of the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld. Under a solar carport field there are three charging points, two of them fast charging points, which are available to the general public for charging electric vehicles since March 2020. Alternatively, a battery storage system ensures that unused energy can be temporarily stored.
The members of the council were particularly impressed by the offer to test drive different types of electric vehicles of the IfaS themselves. At the same time, the second group of guests was given a guided tour to prominent stations on the campus where innovative technologies were brought to bear and a sustainable, holistic interaction was conceived and achieved.
For example, the more than 500 kWp PV power plant on the roofs of the Environmental Campus, the biotopes with rainwaterrigules and the technical centre in the basement of the central new building were visited. Among other things, the function of the ground collectors and the heat recovery of the ventilation system, the use of rainwater for toilet flushing, the heat pump system, as well as the absorption chiller, which is driven by the solar thermal system, were explained.
The IfaS at the Umwelt-Campus has been dealing with questions concerning environmentally friendly technologies and material flow analyses for about 20 years; it advises national and international companies, cities, municipalities and governments on their individual potentials, provides information on effective resource management, the advantages of regional value creation and also names specific funding opportunities.
“We see ourselves as a driving force to put ecological technologies and approaches into practice as quickly, sustainably and effectively as possible and to generate benefits for all those involved,” emphasised Prof. Heck during the tour. Another topic of the evening was the climate protection management application of the city of Sulzbach.
Finally, Dr. Bernhard Alscher, mayor of the Birkenfeld municipality, provided valuable tips from his daily work. He showed how a lot of money has been returned to the community over the last eight years through investments in climate protection and the particular importance of the climate protection manager and the cooperation with IfaS.