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Cir­cu­lar econ­o­my made tan­gi­ble by new life cycle assess­ment rules for re-use products

2023-12-19T12:53:57+01:0019.12.2023|

The Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) has intro­duced life cycle assess­ment rules for re-use prod­ucts in its Envi­ron­men­tal Prod­uct Dec­la­ra­tions (EPDs).

Update: Han­dling of mass bal­ance approach­es in the cal­cu­la­tion of a prod­uct LCA with­in the IBU EPD Program

2023-12-19T12:00:51+01:0012.12.2023|

UPDATE from Dec 12, 2023: In addi­tion to the pre­vi­ous state­ment on MBA from Feb 1, 2023, this state­ment pro­vides clar­i­fi­ca­tion on treat­ment of Guar­an­tees of Ori­gin (GoO).

Dig­i­tal data is the next lev­el of sus­tain­abi­al­i­ty quality

2023-11-03T13:08:54+01:0006.02.2023|

Dig­i­ti­za­tion on the one hand and sus­tain­abil­i­ty on the oth­er are two com­pelling pre­req­ui­sites for sus­tain­able con­struc­tion. IBU will help the con­struc­tion sec­tor achieve a new stan­dard with a new dig­i­tal­iza­tion strat­e­gy for envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct data.

EPDs accord­ing to EN 15804+A1 must be sub­mit­ted for ver­i­fi­ca­tion by the end of July 2022

2023-11-03T13:11:20+01:0020.06.2022|

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.

IBU inte­grates state­ments on health assess­ment in its PCRs

2018-12-20T15:53:34+01:0020.12.2018|

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).