Com­pre­hen­sive Infor­ma­tion for IBU Mem­bers at the 2017 Annu­al Gen­er­al Meeting

At this year’s Gen­er­al Meet­ing, par­tic­i­pants were offered a morn­ing pro­gramme that cov­ered a wide vari­ety of top­ics and infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing nation­al and, in par­tic­u­lar, inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ments in sus­tain­able building.

blankIn his greet­ing, Dr Ste­fan Schulze-Haus­mann, Chair­man of the Ger­man Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Foun­da­tion, expressed his grat­i­tude to the IBU for its ded­i­ca­tion to the Ger­man Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Award through its part­ner­ship in the area of the Spe­cial Prize for Resource Effi­cien­cy. He also revealed the names of this year’s six nom­i­nees, among whom is IBU mem­ber RINN Beton- und Naturstein GmbH & Co. KG.

To kick off the pre­sen­ta­tions, Dr Ger­hard Scheuer­mann pro­vid­ed insight into cur­rent devel­op­ments result­ing from the ECJ rul­ing pro­hibit­ing use of the Ger­man Mark of Con­for­mi­ty (‘Ü‑Zeichen’) for the Ger­man con­struc­tion industry.

Pro­fes­sor Dr Natal­ie Eßig from the Munich Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences fol­lowed, with an intro­duc­tion to use of the BNK Sys­tem for assess­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty in res­i­den­tial con­struc­tion, pro­vid­ing insight into the assess­ment cri­te­ria used by the sys­tem as well as the sup­port options it offers for sys­tem users.

In her pre­sen­ta­tion, Pro­fes­sor Dr Petra von Both from the Karl­sruhe Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy intro­duced an on-going research project in which EPDs have been linked with BIM (Build­ing Infor­ma­tion Mod­el­ling) and explained the poten­tial that this holds for achiev­ing sus­tain­able planning.

EPDs were also the focus of the final pre­sen­ta­tion, giv­en by Dr Eva Schmincke, con­venor of the CEN/TC 350 WG III. In her pre­sen­ta­tion, ‘Update on the EPD and PEF’, she report­ed on the cur­rent sta­tus of the man­date for revis­ing the EN 15804 EPD standard.

All pre­sen­ta­tions are avail­able to IBU mem­bers at the mem­bers’ area of the IBU website.

Pho­tos of the AGM can be found here.