The Brauquartier Puntigam („Brewing quarter Puntigam“) project is a modern urban planning project in the Graz district of Puntigam, located right next to the Puntigam brewery. „Together instead of side-by-side“, the whole project’s defining mantra, is put into action by offering a variety of shopping facilities, a kindergarden, a hairdresser, a gym and a lot more to its residents. This little microcosm also offers guest appartments or common rooms. It’s not just the quality of life that defines this unique residence complex, but also quite simple the source of its heat.
In a unique cooperation, the Puntigam brewery and energy supplier KELAG joined forces to work out a sustainable energy concept for this new district oft own: the waste heat deriving from the brewing process is used to the benefit of the 800 flats, office spaces or commercial spaces of Brauquartier, which was developed by the Austrian real estate giants C&P. A large number of residents and shop owners are already supplied with brewing heat, leading to an estimated final stage energy output of 3.8 million kilowatt-hours delivered to all Brauquartier residents.