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IBU EPDs: Now Dig­i­tal, Thanks to IBU.data

2017-12-13T11:48:28+01:0019.06.2017|

Ver­i­fied Life Cycle Assess­ment Data for Con­struc­tion Prod­ucts Is Now Avail­able in Dig­i­tal Form, Sim­pli­fy­ing Access for Users

Increas­ing­ly, whether in the plan­ning process or in build­ing oper­a­tion, data needs to be accessed by all those involved in a project. This means that it must be simul­ta­ne­ous­ly avail­able to all par­tic­i­pants – ide­al­ly, in a for­mat that can be used across all areas of spe­cial­i­sa­tion. Only when this has been achieved, d

EPDs from the IBU are now rec­og­nized in Italy and Great Britain

2017-12-13T11:24:57+01:0025.01.2017|

Mutu­al Recog­ni­tion with the EPD pro­grammes of BRE and EPD Italy 

Dur­ing the trade fair BAU 2017 in Munich, IBU has signed two new mutu­al recog­ni­tions with the Ital­ian EPD-Pro­­gram EPD Italy / ICMQ and BRE from the UK in the per­son of Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Dr. Burkhart Lehmann and IBU Pres­i­dent Prof. Dr. Horst Bossenmayer.

Parthos Deutsch­land GmbH becomes a mem­ber of the IBU

2018-05-08T12:57:49+02:0008.05.2018|

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. 

Sci­en­tif­ic paper: “Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of the Cra­dle to Cra­dle Cer­ti­fied™ Prod­ucts Pro­gram in the Con­text of Eco-labels and Envi­ron­men­tal Declarations”

2018-05-29T16:45:49+02:0012.03.2018|

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 (Mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­na

IBU at the DACH+HOLZ 2018 Inter­na­tion­al Trade Fair

2018-03-02T10:35:54+01:0002.03.2018|

EPDs con­tin­ue to be used for an increas­ing num­ber of prod­ucts from renowned man­u­fac­tur­ers in the tim­ber con­struc­tion and roof­ing industry.

Fol­low­ing his vis­it to this year’s DACH+HOLZ Inter­na­tion­al, held from 20–23 Feb­ru­ary 2018 in Cologne, Ger­many, IBU Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Burkhart Lehmann reports that envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions (EPDs) in accor­dance with EN 15804 have now become estab­lished in the roof­ing and tim­ber con­struc­tion ind

Ger­man Sus­tain­able Build­ing Coun­cil (DGNB) Pub­lish­es Guide­lines for the Use of Life Cycle Assessments

2018-03-12T11:39:50+01:0002.03.2018|

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 moderni