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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).

The IBU plans new service area from 2019

2019-07-05T17:23:18+02:0006.12.2018|

Prod­uct-relat­ed sus­tain­abil­i­ty information

Build­ing on the suc­cess of recent years, the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) plans to expand its service area in 2019. In addi­tion to the estab­lished and inter­na­tion­al­ly suc­cess­ful EPD sys­tem for build­ing-relat­ed prod­ucts, going for­ward, the insti­tute intends to pre­pare prod­uct-relat­ed sus­tain­abil­i­ty infor­ma­tion in line with the require­ments of nation­al and inter­na­tion­al buil

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, Not a Throw-Away Economy

2018-07-11T12:07:04+02:0011.07.2018|

Pres­ti­gious Speak­ers Set the Tone for the IBU Annu­al Gen­er­al Meeting

For a soci­ety to become aware of its envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­i­ties, it must have vision­ar­ies and pio­neers – includ­ing from among its busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty. This is the con­clu­sion drawn from the pro­gramme pre­sent­ed at this year’s Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing of the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU). The rea­son­ing behind this is that sus­tain­abil­i­ty can­not be enforced in top-do

What Actu­al­ly Goes into Mak­ing a Build­ing Sustainable?

2018-07-02T10:04:54+02:0002.07.2018|

From EPDs to LEED Cer­tifi­cates to CO2-Neu­­tral Urban Districts

Kay Kill­mann, Pres­i­dent of the Ger­man Green Build­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (GGBA), has a mis­sion: ensur­ing that envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions are avail­able for every prod­uct installed in a build­ing. Dur­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion at the EUREF cam­pus in Berlin, he empha­sised that this is because ‘they con­tribute to the con­struc­tion of sus­tain­able build­ings and are also very much

Sci­en­tif­ic Paper: “Assess­ing the Abil­i­ty of the Cra­dle to Cra­dle Cer­ti­fied™ Prod­ucts Pro­gram to Reli­ably Deter­mine the Envi­ron­men­tal Per­for­mance of Products”

2018-05-18T16:08:35+02:0018.05.2018|

The abil­i­ty of C2CP to reli­ably deter­mine the envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance of products

Niko­lay Minkov, Vanes­sa Bach and Matthias Finkbein­er from the TU Berlin have pub­lished a sci­en­tif­ic paper in the jour­nal Sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the pub­lish­er MDPI (Mul­

Jour­nal Arti­cle: The Util­i­sa­tion of Envi­ron­men­tal Prod­uct Dec­la­ra­tions in Green Pub­lic Procurement

2018-05-02T16:25:55+02:0002.05.2018|

Doc­u­ment­ing Envi­ron­men­tal Cri­te­ria in Pub­lic Tenders

Green Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment (GPP), an envi­ron­­men­­tal­­ly-con­s­cious approach to pur­chas­ing, is a valu­able tool for ensur­ing that envi­ron­men­tal cri­te­ria weigh in more heav­i­ly in the con­struc­tion indus­try. This option has rarely been put in prac­tice until now, how­ev­er, since con­tract­ing orga­ni­za­tions have been uncer­tain as to how to for­mu­late legal­­ly-com­­pli­ant envi­ron­men­tal requiremen

IBU sup­ports tran­si­tion to new EPD stan­dard with attrac­tive pricing

2023-11-03T13:15:55+01:0015.08.2019|

The new Euro­pean stan­dard EN 15804+A2 reg­u­lat­ing EPDs for con­struc­tion prod­ucts will have par­tic­u­lar impacts on the impact assess­ment stage; there­fore, it will be impos­si­ble to com­pare EPD results with those accord­ing to the pre­vi­ous ver­sion EN 15804+A1.

A Guar­an­tor for Qual­i­ty and Inde­pen­dence in Sus­tain­able Build­ing Cel­e­brates a Milestone

2018-01-29T11:29:08+01:0029.01.2018|

The IBU Advi­so­ry Board Holds Its 50th Meet­ing – Its Exper­tise, Inde­pen­dence, and Con­ti­nu­ity Are the Guar­an­tee for the Qual­i­ty of the IBU Programme.

The IBU Advi­so­ry Board is the top-lev­­el expert body for the work per­formed by the IBU and for the oper­a­tion of its inter­na­tion­al EPD pro­gramme for con­struc­tion prod­ucts. These ded­i­cat­ed experts, who come from the areas of sci­ence and stan­dard­i­s­a­tion, as well as buildi