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 allo­cat­ed 100% to a spe­cif­ic prod­uct in the course of the calculation.

The approach test­ed by the IBU in a pilot phase to include the bio­mass bal­ance (BMB) in an EPD is cur­rent­ly suspende

The pre­vi­ous man­ag­ing direc­tor Dr. Alexan­der Röder will leave the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e. V. (IBU) on March 31, 2023. Dipl.-Ing. Hans Peters and Dr. Roman Rupp will man­age the busi­ness as exec­u­tive board mem­bers with imme­di­ate effect. Service ideas towards plan­ners and mem­bers are to be intensified.

The board of the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (Berlin) and its long-stand­ing man­ag­ing direc­tor Dr. Alexan­der Röder have agreed to ter­mi­nate their coop­er­a­tion by mutu­al con­sent on Mar

Dig­i­ti­za­tion on the one hand and sus­tain­abil­i­ty on the oth­er are two com­pelling pre­req­ui­sites for sus­tain­able con­struc­tion. The Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) will help the con­struc­tion sec­tor achieve a new stan­dard with a new dig­i­tal­iza­tion strat­e­gy for envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct data.

With the fur­ther devel­op­ment of BIM, new pos­si­bil­i­ties will be cre­at­ed for the opti­miza­tion of con­struc­tion projects up to object-spe­cif­ic life cycle assess­ment. To this end, it is imper­a­tive to fully 

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.

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We are pleased to announce the launch of a new web­site for an Euro­pean sus­tain­abil­i­ty data hub of con­struc­tion products.

The Work­ing Group ‘Inter­na­tion­al Open Data Net­work for Sus­tain­able Build­ing‘ -InDa­ta- orig­i­nat­ed from growing

IBU wel­comes new mem­ber in the build­ing ser­vices sector

ProSys, the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V.’s New Prod­uct Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem, Meets with Great Interest