Koch Architekten 4greenArchitecture. German Green Building specialists focus on integrated planning of new and old buildings such as offices, retail, public and governmental facilities as well as hotels & resorts, residential, cultural and educational centres. We are passionate about distinctive architecture and technology that combines daylight use and renewables, ecology, flexibility, profitability and sustainability in a holistic urban context. We offer corporate architectural design with energy efficiency, use of renewable energy, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), environmental commitment and spatial organisational planning for new buildings and refurbishment. Our services entails sustainable integrated architectural design and green holistic concepts. Sustainable architecture with integrated energy design considering - considering also the Corporate Identity. Engineering services, building physics, building and thermal simulation, energy consultancy, monitoring as well as energy saving and green building certification. Working internationally we believe in added value to projects through cooperation with local partners.
Koch Architekten 4greenArchitecture has more than 20 years of experience and practice in the integrated green building planning field and is a GreenBuilding Endorser EU, member of the DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council) and a partner of the Initiative “Energy Efficiency made in Germany” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Beside practising as an active integrated green bulding planner, striving for new innovative, sustainable architectural solutions with energy efficiency and use of renewables, Dipl.-Ing. architect Juergen Koch, is the Chairman of the Technical Division Architecture at the VDI (The Association of German Engineers) in Germany. We give international work shops in the topics “Sustainable Off-grid Green Cities” and “Sustainable Integrated Green Building Planning with Energy Efficiency and use of Renewables” around the globe. Koch Architekten 4greenArchitecture has a portfolio of realised green building projects and more award winning references. Among others the Deloitte Headquarter and Corporate Architecture in Duesseldorf, a Green Building Daylight architecture voted “Best Office” and “Office of the Year” in 2004, the year after construction. Another very innovative "one of a kind" project reference is the DHB Green Building Bank, constructed with long pre-stressed fiber concrete elements including all HVAC and sprinkler inside the elements already when arriving to the build on site. Last but not least to mention is our CO2-neutral (carbon neutral) “REWE Green Building – the future concept” in Berlin. This was the world wide first retail project to receive Gold by the DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council). It has been awarded “Store of the Year 2010”, “ClimateProtectionPartner 2010” in Berlin, nominated for the “Sustainability Award 2010” by the EU and was during the EXPO REAL 2010 voted the winner of the B.A.U.M competition “Environmental friendly Commercial Buildings 2010”, funded by the German Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. This project has a CO2-emission saving of 435 tons due to construction of wood and the use of wood based materials. A perfect demo and pilot project here in the United Nations (UN) “International Year of Forests 2011” and now, just before the COP 17 (The 17th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Durban, South Africa 2011.