Sustainability, Not a Throw-Away Economy
Prestigious Speakers Set the Tone for the IBU Annual General Meeting
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-down. In order to be able to meet the Age
What Actually Goes into Making a Building Sustainable?
From EPDs to LEED Certificates to CO2-Neutral Urban Districts
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 in demand’. His presentation was h
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Scientific Paper: “Assessing the Ability of the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program to Reliably Determine the Environmental Performance of Products” GalleryScientific Paper: “Assessing the Ability of the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program to Reliably Determine the Environmental Performance of Products”
Scientific Paper: “Assessing the Ability of the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program to Reliably Determine the Environmental Performance of Products”
The ability of C2CP to reliably determine the environmental performance of 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 (Multidiscipli
Parthos Deutschland GmbH becomes a member of the IBU
IBU welcomes manufacturer of partition systems
For more than 50 years, Parthos has been producing mobile partition systems, folding walls and folding doors and offers its customers complete interior fittings on request.
Journal Article: The Utilisation of Environmental Product Declarations in Green Public Procurement
Documenting Environmental Criteria in Public Tenders
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 requirements for construction products.
Current decisions of the Advisory Board
SVR Decisions from April 2018
The IBU Advisory Board (SVR) decided in its last meeting in April 2018 on this topic.
New version of PCR Part A
IBU has published a new Version of PCR part A
Changes to the prior version of the PCR Part A are editorial changes, clarifications in the chapter 6.2 (End of Life scenarios) and 6.5.4 (allocation).
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Scientific paper: “Characterization of the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program in the Context of Eco-labels and Environmental Declarations” GalleryScientific paper: “Characterization of the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program in the Context of Eco-labels and Environmental Declarations”
Scientific paper: “Characterization of the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program in the Context of Eco-labels and Environmental Declarations”
A characterization of Cradle to Cradle as eco-label
Nikolay Minkov, Vanessa Bach and Matthias Finkbeiner from the TU Berlin have published a scientific paper to the characterization of the Cradle to Cradle Certified ™ Products Program in the journal Sustainability of the publisher MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) Publishes Guidelines for the Use of Life Cycle Assessments
Get the most out of the potential that life cycle assessments offer for reducing the environmental impact of the construction industry
The life cycle assessment method is one of the most effective ways of determining the environmental impact of various construction types, energy concepts, building components, and products – in other words, all of the aspects that go into planning a new building, a renovation, or a modernisation project.