IBU.data is a data base, provided by IBU containing the LCA-based data from the EPDs of building material manufacturers, digitised i.e. made available to the public in machine-readable XML format. This enables the application for calculating building LCA.
With IBU.data, the IBU offers considerable added value for users of EPDs:
- The in-house database is accompanied by short publication cycles for new EPDs
- The in-house operation means that all IBU EPDs can be made available digitally
- Dependence on the specifications and requirements of external database operators is reduced
The basis is the concept of the InData working group, a European EPD initiative dedicated to building a data network of digital EPD data as XML files in the ILCD+EPD format based on the ILCD (International Life Cycle Dataset).