The science campus Erlangen has been intensively expanded in recent years. The previously available areas of the city were largely built on or occupied with concrete plans. New areas therefore had to be developed for further research facilities, including the establishment of a Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Light.
Commissioned by the State Building Authority Erlangen-Nuremberg, ANUVA worked in close cooperation with the City Planning Office to prepare the green-ordering aspects, the environmental report and the expert contributions on species protection law for the urban land-use-plan procedure. Subsequent to the urban land-use-plan procedure, ANUVA advised the city of Erlangen in the standards control procedure.
The future university site borders directly on an inner-city nature reserve that is also of great importance for local recreation. This is the former military parade ground with rough grassland and breeding grounds for endangered bird species such as the woodlark. The Nürnberger Reichswald bird sanctuary borders the planning site to the east. The unavoidable impairments caused by the university expansion were therefore compensated for by a comprehensive concept for the maintenance and optimization of the entire parade ground nature reserve, taking into account the bird fauna in particular.