“Responsibility does not expire”

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The Round Table on Child Abuse held its first meeting in Berlin on Friday morning. On Interviewer: A background report and interviews with Federal Minister Kristina Schroder, Canisius Rector Father Klaus Mertes and the independent Federal Government Commissioner Christine Bergmann.

Federal Family Minister Kristina Schroder (CDU) said immediately before the meeting that responsibility does not expire, even if the acts are time-barred. She would like the Round Table to clearly identify deficits. Education Minister Annette Schavan (CDU) stressed that it was right to have brought numerous representatives from the institutions into the committee. Churches, schools and other public institutions addressed the ie intensively. The overriding goal must be to do justice to the victims, Schavan said. Compensation? Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) spoke of a "very big task". Legal policy consequences must be drawn from the processing of cases from the past decades, she said. Reappraisal and prevention are the two pillars of the Round Table.Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger also called for financial support for victims of sexual abuse. Many victims did not expect financial compensation, but wanted "some form of recognition for suffering inflicted on them in the past". The minister also mentioned longer statutes of limitations in criminal law and the explicit anchoring of children's rights in the German constitution as further topics to be discussed by the round table. With regard to the offer of resignation by Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa, the FDP politician said: "Nothing is the way it was half a year ago, not even in the Catholic Church."

Jaschke: Fund for uncomplicated Hil Hamburg auxiliary bishop Hans-Jochen Jaschke did not rule out financial compensation from the Catholic Church. Jaschke said Thursday evening on ZDF that the church must consider whether it could make "a fund for uncomplicated help" possible. He emphasized in the program "Maybrit Illner spezial" that the Catholic Church itself had provided the impetus for the clarification of the incidents. The Canisius College in Berlin had started the ball rolling. In addition the church already strives since 2001 strengthened for clearing-up, "also initiated by the Vatican". In earlier years, however, the victims had received "far too little attention". Now they would have to be able to speak and be heard. The former special investigator at the Ettal monastery, Thomas Pfister, on the other hand, spoke of a lack of self-cleansing powers in church institutions. Without the investigations and public prere, the abuses in Ettal would not have "come to light". Pfister says he represents about 200 victims. He explained that apologies, talks and prayers were "not sufficient" to make amends. Rather, the monastery must be judged "by the deeds".

Two working groups The round table wants to set up two working groups. One will deal with questions of prevention and intervention, the other with the processing of cases, assistance for victims, legal policy consequences and the question of compensation. An interim report should be available by the end of the year. The round table is chaired by the three ministers.The panel has 61 members, including political representatives from the federal and state governments, lawyers, physicians, and representatives of churches, schools, family associations and victim counseling services. The federal cabinet had decided the establishment of the round table at the end of March and at the same time appointed the former federal minister Bergmann as abuse commissioner.

A confidant of the resigned former bishop?

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Two years ago, the bishop of San Felipe had resigned. He is under investigation for alleged sexual assault of an adult. New bishop to be confidant of former bishop, victims and lay representatives say.

In Chile, lay people and victims of sexual abuse have criticized the nomination of Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Salazar (57) as new bishop of San Felipe.

As the daily newspaper "El Mostrador" reports, they wrote a letter to Pope Francis to express their "deep concern and pain" about this designation.

Accusations: cover-up and hush money

The signatories accuse Bravo of trying to cover up cases of abuse by offering victims hush money. Bravo had been a confidant of former Valparaiso Bishop Gonzalo Duarte, against whom former seminary students had made accusations of covering up abuse cases.

Pope Francis had appointed two bishops in late May for the Catholic Church in Chile, which has been rocked by abuse scandals.

New appointments after resignations

Bravo is to succeed Cristian Contreras Molina (73) in the San Felipe diocese, whose early resignation was accepted by the head of the church in fall 2018. Contreras had been under investigation by the prosecutor's office for alleged sexual assault of a man of legal age. Contreras denied the allegations. He had presided over the diocese of San Felipe since 2002.

In addition, the pope appointed Julio Esteban Larrondo Yanez, 60, a new auxiliary bishop for the capital's archdiocese of Santiago. The nomination was necessary after Francis appointed several auxiliary bishops of Santiago as temporary administrators in other dioceses whose bishops had resigned in the wake of abuse allegations.

"we used the software we had always used – but at some point we couldn’t get any further." this is the almost unanimous tenor of the architectural firms that have decided to switch to ARCHICAD software. The producer of the program, GRAPHISOFT, asked the architects about their motives and came up with some interesting results.

06 Kilian Kresings and Moritz Fleischmann

Kresings, munster and dusseldorf, have made a comprehensive evaluation before their software decision. Kilian kresing (left): "ARCHICAD was the winner by points."

Kresings maintain a team in dusseldorf in addition to their traditional office in munster in order to provide fresh impetus from the state capital. A total of 55 employees work at the two locations and plan everything from individual office or residential buildings to complete neighborhoods.

Previous CAD software reaches its limits

at the top of the list of reasons for change is the 2D/3D theme. Many offices use software solutions that are still very much based on two-dimensionality. It’s different with ARCHICAD, where working directly on the 3D model has always been the core. planning is done intuitively and quickly on a central model. Every change also appears automatically in all floor plans, elevations and sections.

Kresings, munster and dusseldorf, made a comprehensive evaluation prior to their software decision. Kilian kresing (left): "ARCHICAD was the winner by points."

Kresings maintain a team in dusseldorf in addition to their traditional office in munster in order to provide fresh impetus from the state capital. A total of 55 employees work at the two sites and plan everything from individual office or residential buildings to complete neighborhoods.

this is not only extremely time-saving – it also better suits today’s working habits, especially of young architects. You want to move quickly into modeling, work on the living object, so to speak, and deliver presentable, veritable results quickly. Andreas kleboth from linz can also observe this in his office: "we have many employees who know ARCHICAD from their studies and are therefore very well-versed and very fast in building 3D models."

3D modeling is the order of the day

Kresings, munster and dusseldorf, carried out a comprehensive evaluation before deciding on their software. Kilian kresing (left): "ARCHICAD was the winner on points."

Kresings maintain a team in dusseldorf in addition to their traditional office in munster in order to provide fresh impetus from the state capital. A total of 55 employees work at the two sites and plan everything from individual office or residential buildings to complete neighborhoods.

a faster sense of space, conditions and atmosphere: this is what more and more clients are demanding. This is where many of the respondents see ARCHICAD’s great trump card. architect johannes berschneider from pilsach describes it this way: "the final icing on the cake are the builders who sit here with their mouths open, watch and ‘walk through’ the building."He is referring to the 3D representations with which ARCHICAD enables impressive virtual building inspections at the push of a button.

ARCHICAD has always been BIM

Building information modeling is increasingly required in tenders to ensure an efficient project flow throughout all phases and between all parties involved in the design process.

Training for the changeover

Almost all offices have taken advantage of the extensive training and support offered by GRAPHISOFT and its local partners. For architect irene kristiner from graz, the ARCHICAD basic course was a particularly important help: "the program’s functions were explained to us right from the start, we were able to work with it directly, ask our questions and receive direct feedback."

Interesting info portal

What do the individual architects think about their software?? Why of all things the changeover to ARCHICAD? And how did the changeover go? GRAPHISOFT has set up an interesting information portal with films about various architecture firms in germany and austria. More info here.

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