To be on the safe side, the employees in the district office should have warm cardigans with them this autumn and winter, because it will be cooler than before. A number of energy-saving measures are already being implemented after consultation with the staff council at the agency. However, this does not go far enough for the Greens, they are calling for a comprehensive energy-saving program. At the most recent meeting of the Committee for Real Estate, School Buildings and Contracts, her application was on the agenda, but was postponed again. It will not be decided until December whether an energy-saving program should be drawn up at all.
Renate Ellmann, head of the real estate department, had previously pointed out the lack of staff and the great effort involved. As a material expenditure carrier, the district is also responsible for the secondary schools, but they don’t have the capacity to shut them all down and look for energy-saving potential, said Ellmann.
You, like District Administrator Robert Niedergesäß (CSU), also pointed out that a lot had already been implemented anyway. Common areas are no longer heated, including corridors, stairwells, entrance areas and technical rooms. The maximum temperature for offices has been set at 19 degrees; Employees who find it too cool are also not allowed to use a fan heater on their own. The hot water preparation in the tea kitchens and toilet rooms is switched off. It’s also getting darker around the district office: the exterior lighting of the buildings is switched off, and the parking lots are also no longer illuminated from 7 p.m.
Saving energy by working from home: That is one of the suggestions of the Greens
However, the Greens’ proposals went much further. For example, one could check whether heat recovery could be retrofitted to ventilation systems, or whether year-round waste heat from cooling systems, for example from server rooms, could be used. The idea of temporarily taking buildings out of management, for example by working from home, and using bridge days to save energy is part of the Greens’ proposal.
Angelika Obermayr was therefore disappointed with the decision to only deal with the application at a later meeting. She also expressed specific criticism: In the meeting room of the former district savings bank, where the committee met, it was “cosily warm”, here you could turn down the temperature, the Green district councilor suggested. But apparently it’s not that easy: “I wouldn’t like to intervene in the regulation of the heat here in the Sparkasse building if it wasn’t absolutely necessary,” said Ellmann. The fact that the system tends to react sensitively and stops heating completely in the event of interventions had apparently already been established in previous tests.