DGNB Special Award Ecolabel 

HafenCity Hamburg GmbH and the German Sustainable Building Council (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen, DGNB) are united in their aim to continue to intensively promote and demand sustainable building and to anchor it within the real estate industry as a whole.

The bundling of the competencies and many years of experience of the two cooperating partners creates valuable synergies in forging this path to transformation, which has already had a successful start. The DGNB special award Ecolabel Umweltzeichen is a powerful tool that can respond flexibly to new and changing requirements.

The DGNB special award Ecolabel was designed specifically for the four inner-city areas HafenCity, Billebogen, Grasbrook and Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld. It brings together all the sustainability requirements for new projects on building sites under development by HafenCity Hamburg GmbH and its subsidiaries.

The special award takes central aspects from the previously independently managed HafenCity Ecolabel and combines them with the DGNB system. It defines future-oriented, uniform requirements that are particularly relevant to the locality, taking into account the site characteristics of the four areas.

Thanks to its compatibility with national and international funding policies and regulations and the utilization of methodological and documentation standards, the new special award will enable valuable synergies for future developers. 

The certified buildings not only create numerous measurable and visible benefits, but also set new standards that are imperative for sustainable and viable urban development. 

By means of the wider distribution of the DGNB system, the special award also ensures the acceptance of all relevant stakeholders in the finance and real estate sector as well as of users who also keep track of their ecological footprint.