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The Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e. V. (IBU) is an asso­ci­a­tion of build­ing prod­uct man­u­fac­tur­ers who have joined forces to oper­ate an inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tion pro­gramme. The IBU is com­mit­ted to sus­tain­able build­ing and believes that those who mar­ket their prod­ucts as sus­tain­able must also be able to prove this. This is pre­cise­ly what the con­struc­tion mate­ri­als indus­try is doing in work­ing with the IBU to cre­ate envi­ron­ment prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions (EPD) – an inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised and stan­dard­ised tool for the sus­tain­abil­i­ty cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of buildings.

The IBU

IBU was cre­at­ed out of an ini­tia­tive of man­u­fac­tur­ers of con­struc­tion prod­ucts and com­po­nents who decid­ed to sup­port the demand for more sus­tain­abil­i­ty in the con­struc­tion sector.

EPDs

Envi­ron­men­tal Prod­uct Dec­la­ra­tion (EPD) form the data basis for an envi­ron­men­tal build­ing assessment.

News & Events

Lat­est news, events and dates, the IBU — newslet­ter as well as press pho­tos of the IBU.

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Flo­ri­an Pronold new Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the IBU

Flo­ri­an Pronold, for­mer Par­lia­men­tary State Sec­re­tary, has been the new Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e. V. (IBU), Berlin, since July 1, 2023. The 50-year-old suc­ceeds Dipl.-Ing. Hans Peters and Dr. Roman Rupp, who will con­tin­ue to serve as board mem­bers (chair­man and deputy cha

Han­dling of mass bal­ance approach­es in the cal­cu­la­tion of a prod­uct LCA with­in the IBU EPD Program

By mass bal­ance approach (MBA) IBU under­stands the vir­tu­al allo­ca­tion of basic mate­ri­als (e.g. bio­mass) or oth­er resources (e.g. ener­gy) to a prod­uct. This is also referred to as “pooled resources”, which only rep­re­sent a sub­set of the resources used and are avail­able in lim­it­ed quan­ti­ties, but are 

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EPD From Construction Products to Sustainable Buildings

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