Our Green Initiatives

For many years, we have been trying to get the permission to build a photovoltaic system on the historic Apart. Many years it was not possible due to certain legislation that forbids these systems on historic buildings when it can be visible from the street. Luckily things are changing on a bigger scale in Germany and legislation opened up a way to realize this project. We are now working on realizing this big project that will drive us towards more sustainable energy production in our office and the historic Apart. More news to come soon!

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With more and more electric vehicles on the streets in Germany, we decided to further grow our charging infrastructure and build several new Wirelane charging points in the parking garage of the first Apart. If you are staying with us in first or historic Apart and would like to charge your car, contact us for a parking space in the garage and charge your car there!

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We came to the decision that it's time to switch away from plastic packaged shampoo and soap solutions to more sustainable products that enable us not only to use more eco friendly ingredients but also reduce waste that is produced by all of this single packaging. We hope you enjoy the new products and their smell. We currently run with two systems: We are trying non liquid products in the east Apart where we offer body and hair wash as one product and a hand soap as another product. In other buildings we also included refill shower installations to also serve our longterm guests with longer lasting body wash. Feel free to tell us what you prefer!

We are convinced that especially since social housing is so limited, we can open up space for refugees from Ukraine. Not only is it a human thing to do but it is also a more sustainable solution since we are convinced that the commercial sector needs to contribute to the problems of the housing market. We know that most hotels and apartments don't work on a 100% occupancy but they avoid giving up space since it brings some complications and possible losses in peak times. We try to live an example what can be done. We hope more companies like us will follow and allow more refugees to live in nicer places than mass accommodation.

You can always spot our company cars easily. They have a very iconic design and BOOK-IT in huge letters on them. Since 2018 we focus on climate friendly mobility within our fleet. Most of our company cars are either fully electronic or hybrid cars. And we also believe in prolonging the lifecycle of these cars, meaning we refrain actively from getting ourselves the latest models but instead keep on using our beloved i3s until we can't do it anymore. That's because we believe, we have to stop short lifecycles and fast turnover of items.