{"id":24811,"date":"2025-04-07T14:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rewe-group.com\/de\/?p=43270"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:40:12","slug":"the-next-generation-of-green-building-is-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rewe-group.com\/en\/press-and-media\/newsroom\/stories\/the-next-generation-of-green-building-is-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"The next generation of green building is launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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REWE is going into series production with its pioneering, recyclable supermarket concept. The second REWE Green Farming centre in Germany will be built in the south of Berlin by spring 2026. On 28 March, the REWE Region East celebrated the start of construction on the pioneering project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Climate protection for our future<\/h2>
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The grocery shop with a glass roof farm is characterised by its modular timber construction with a supporting structure of solid columns. The Berlin-based company ECF Farmsystems will operate the capital’s largest rooftop farm and grow lettuce above the imposing market hall made of wood and glass. REWE Group Management Board member Peter Maly is convinced by the natural construction method: Wood is the core element of our supermarket of the future. We are binding many hundreds of tonnes of CO2. And we are closing the building cycle. This means that in a few decades we could dismantle the store and reuse the components.<\/q> REWE Green Farming Berlin uses local softwoods, which store over 700 tonnes of carbon dioxide. In 30 years, the wood will have grown back and the carbon footprint will be balanced.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Member of the Management Board \u2013 REWE Chief Operating Officer, Logistics and Supply Chain Management <\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Berlin-based company ECF Farmsystems stands for innovative food production in urban areas. With the development and future operation of the 2,760 square metre rooftop farm on the REWE store in Berlin, ECF is sending a strong signal for sustainable, regional production. REWE Green Farming will harvest over 900,000 fresh salad mixes all year round and supply up to 700 supermarkets in the capital region and beyond. By utilising roof areas as well as sunlight, waste heat, rainwater and existing logistics routes, we are not only saving valuable resources – we are even avoiding CO2 emissions,<\/q> explains Nicolas Leschke, Managing Director of ECF Farmsystems. The special thing about a rooftop farm, however, is the climate-independent production and the outstanding product quality – made possible by daily harvesting at the optimum ripening time and extremely short distances to the markets.<\/q><\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Cultivation takes place in a hydroponic system – almost without soil and fully automated. All growing conditions are precisely tailored to the needs of the plants and are controlled electronically. ECF already produces basil exclusively for REWE Hauptstadt just seven kilometres away on the site of the Berlin Malzfabrik.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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