The Federal Research Center for Sustainable Building in Weimar and Bautzen, which was already planned under the traffic light coalition, is to be established. The establishment of the center has been firmly agreed in the coalition agreement between the CDU/CSU and SPD, announced Carsten Schneider, SPD member of the Bundestag and Commissioner for Eastern Germany in the current federal government. This provides planning security for the coming years.
The new center is intended to advance research into new building materials, alternative construction technologies and resource-saving manufacturing and construction processes. In the text of the coalition agreement that has now been presented, the possible future governing parties have agreed on "permanent funding" for the project, said Schneider. Now, together with the states of Thuringia and Saxony, concrete implementation could begin in the near future.
Following the coalition's exit, planning for the center had initially stalled. The federal budget was put on hold due to the early federal elections. Last summer - i.e. before the coalition government broke up - the budget committee of the Bundestag had given the green light for the project. At the time, it was stated that a total of 68.5 million euros had been earmarked by the federal government for the center until 2028. Thuringia had pledged a further 35 million euros, primarily for the infrastructure in Weimar.
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