Updat­ed Release of Inde­pen­­den­t­­ly-Ver­i­­fied Life Cycle Assess­ment Data for Fire Dampers

Tobias Brinkmann, Susanne Köh­ler, Alexan­der Boeth and Lukas Met­zger from brands & val­ues GmbH exam­ine the ben­e­fits, expec­ta­tions and ful­fil­ment of envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions in the first part of a study pub­lished in February.

On 1 Feb­ru­ary 2019, Dr. Alexan­der Röder will be appoint­ed as the new Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the IBU

“The con­cept and idea of the IBU is absolute­ly spot on”

As the year draws to a close, a fur­ther man­u­fac­tur­er of insu­lat­ing prod­ucts, VÖWA GmbH, has become a mem­ber of the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e. V. (IBU). The medi­um-sized com­pa­ny from Bob­in­gen in Bavaria has been pro­duc­ing insu­lat­ing mate­ri­als since 1973, spe­cial­is­ing in par­tic­u­lar in the use of poly­ester fibre fleece.

AgBB eval­u­a­tion scheme in Prod­uct Cat­e­go­ry Rules

The Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt (IBU) updates the state­ments on the health assess­ment of con­struc­tion prod­ucts in its pro­gramme rules and incor­po­rates the AgBB eval­u­a­tion scheme 2018 into its Prod­uct Cat­e­go­ry Rules (PCRs).

Envi­ron­men­tal Prod­uct Dec­la­ra­tion for CALOSTAT

Evonik’s CALOSTAT receives IBU’s EPD cer­ti­fi­ca­tion with recy­cling sce­nario in Düs­sel­dorf on Ger­man Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Day

A Suc­cess Story

For over thir­ty years, the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) has ded­i­cat­ed itself to the prin­ci­ples of sus­tain­able con­struc­tion. A crit­i­cal fac­tor in achiev­ing this has been the avail­abil­i­ty of neu­tral prod­uct infor­ma­tion. With its more than 200 mem­bers, includ­ing 42 asso­ci­a­tions from Ger­many and oth­er Euro­pean coun­tries, the IBU has become Europe’s largest asso­ci­a­tion of build­ing indus­try manufactu

SVR Deci­sions from June 2018

The IBU Advi­so­ry Board (SVR) decid­ed in its last meet­ing in June 2018 on these topics.