The Centre of Competence for Major Housing Estates competence has a lot of competences in modernization and reconstruction of residential quarters constructed with prefabricated concrete slabs.
With holistic innovation concepts, many of these residential areas were turned into sustainably viable city quarters-ecologically viable, with stable social structures, and a satisfied population.

The experiences have been seen as an opportunity for transfer and have resulted in numerous collaborations with other large housing estates across Europe undergoing a transition toward market-driven development.
The independent non-profit association recognized as working for the common welfare methodically pools the experiences gained in this transformation process in order to make it available to regional and local authorities and their housing societies, in particular in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

All important stakeholders of the transformation process are members of the association: Authorities of the City of Berlin districts, professional associations of the housing sector, housing societies and cooperatives, financial institutes, architects, engineers, construction and service businesses, and individuals.

In the scope of the structural support by the European Union (E.U.), European standards of urban development have been elaborated over the last years, in particular based on the experiences of the Community initiative “Urban”.
They also have experience in the Interreg projects BEEN and LHASA.
The Centre of Competence for Major Housing Estates is member in the competence team 2, which deals with administration issues.

The contact person is Ralf Protz.