UPDATE: ECO Platform has published an addition to the previous statement on Mass Balance Approach (MBA) from Feb 1, 2023. This new statement provides clarification on treatment of Guarantees of Origin (GoO).
Latest status of Advisory Board (SVR) decisions: October 2023
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.
Digitization on the one hand and sustainability on the other are two compelling prerequisites for sustainable construction. IBU will help the construction sector achieve a new standard with a new digitalization strategy for environmental product data.
Since the transition period for the application of EN 15804+A1 expires in October 2022, all EPDs created according to this standard must be published by then. In order to be able to guarantee this, EPDs according to EN 15804+A1 must be submitted to IBU for verification by the end of July 2022.
For a society to become aware of its environmental responsibilities, it must have visionaries and pioneers – including from among its business community. This is the conclusion drawn from the programme presented at this year’s Annual General Meeting of the Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU). The reasoning behind this is that sustainability cannot be enforced in top-do
Kay Killmann, President of the German Green Building Association (GGBA), has a mission: ensuring that environmental product declarations are available for every product installed in a building. During a presentation at the EUREF campus in Berlin, he emphasised that this is because ‘they contribute to the construction of sustainable buildings and are also very much
The InData Initiative is announcing the public release of its European sustainability data network for construction products.
Nikolay Minkov, Vanessa Bach and Matthias Finkbeiner from the TU Berlin have published a scientific paper in the journal Sustainability of the publisher MDPI (Mul
Green Public Procurement (GPP), an environmentally-conscious approach to purchasing, is a valuable tool for ensuring that environmental criteria weigh in more heavily in the construction industry. This option has rarely been put in practice until now, however, since contracting organizations have been uncertain as to how to formulate legally-compliant environmental requiremen
