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AMAREX closing event in Cologne

On July 10, 2025, the nationally advertised final conference of the WaX joint project AMAREX took place at the VHS Forum Cologne. A total of approximately 70 participants from local authorities, speci…

BGI+ and BGI-U profiles published in the draft version

AMAREX is investigating decentralized rainwater management systems (BGI) as a solution to combat the negative effects of climate change, such as heavy rainfall, heat, and drought. However, since estab…

AMAREX Comparison Tool for measures BGI / BGI+ / BGI-U

The facilities included in the catalogue of measures developed within the AMAREX project were analyzed using a standardized modeling approach to allow for systematic comparison. For the cities of Berl…

Found in Translation: aus ABIMO wird R-ABIMO

Does it make sense to rewrite an existing model software from scratch to achieve the same results? We believe it does, so we translated the ABIMO water balance model from C++ into the R programming la…

BGI+ and BGI-U profiles published in the draft version

In AMAREX, decentralized blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is being investigated as a solution to combat the negative effects of climate change such as heavy rainfall, heat and drought. However, the eff…

2nd AMAREX Stakeholder Workshop

The 2nd AMAREX Stakeholder Workshop took place on March 14, 2024, coordinated by the Berlin Water Services at the Infralab Berlin. Following that, the workshop was successfully replicated in the partn…

Irrigation of the 24 ivy modules goes into operation

We are pleased to announce that in June 2023, the experimental plant on the ISWA premises for the irrigation of 24 ivy modules went into operation. With great efforts, a complex experimental facility …

ABIMO source code published!

"How much rain seeps into the ground in the Tiergarten? How much evaporates on the Tempelhofer Feld? And how much goes into the sewers at Potsdamer Platz?" The Berlin Senate Department for Urban Devel…

Software development meets reality in Berlin pilot area

In the sense of the application-oriented orientation of the research project, an exchange of feedback between the Berliner Wasserbetriebe and the Straßen-Grünflächen-Amt of the district of Friedrichsh…

Inspection of the Cologne pilot areas

On January 27, 2023, the first inspections for the selection of the Cologne pilot areas took place by the StEB Cologne (Luisa Schwab, Ingo Schwerdorf) and the ISWA (Till Jaworski).

In this context, v…

2nd Network Meeting AMAREX in Stuttgart

On October 26 and 27, 2022, the 2nd AMAREX Network Meeting took place at the Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management of the University of Stuttgart (ISWA). At the …

Stakeholder Workshops

High levels of land sealing and building densities exacerbate the risks of pluvial flooding in cities and the formation of summer heat islands. In addition, important urban vegetation is stressed and …