EN 15804

IBU at the DACH+HOLZ 2018 Inter­na­tion­al Trade Fair

2018-03-02T10:35:54+01:0002.03.2018|

EPDs con­tin­ue to be used for an increas­ing num­ber of prod­ucts from renowned man­u­fac­tur­ers in the tim­ber con­struc­tion and roof­ing industry.

Fol­low­ing his vis­it to this year’s DACH+HOLZ Inter­na­tion­al, held from 20–23 Feb­ru­ary 2018 in Cologne, Ger­many, IBU Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Burkhart Lehmann reports that envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions (EPDs) in accor­dance with EN 15804 have now become estab­lished in the roof­ing and tim­ber con­struc­tion ind

ICDLI renews envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions (EPD)

2017-11-22T16:45:36+01:0022.11.2017|

EPDs for HPL and HPL compact

After the ICDLI (Inter­na­tion­al Com­mit­tee of the Dec­o­ra­tive Lam­i­nates Indus­try ais­bl) had devel­oped an EPD for the first time in 2012, the envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions have now been updat­ed. These are valid for five years. The envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions audit­ed by the inde­pen­dent pro­gram hold­er Insti­tute for Build­ing and Envi­ron­ment e.V. (IBU) have been pro­duced to the high­est stan­dard of type&n

Report: Method­ol­o­gy Sem­i­nar for Life Cycle Assessors

2018-02-13T10:16:06+01:0016.11.2017|

Key Top­ics: IBU Pro­gramme Rules, LCI Data Sets, Data Qual­i­ty, and Sta­tus of EPD Standardisation

In Octo­ber 2017, the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt held its sec­ond train­ing pro­gramme for life cycle asses­sors and EPD cre­ators, aimed at pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion on both new devel­op­ments to EPD pro­gramme rules as well as on how to ensure the most effi­cient and high­est qual­i­ty ver­i­fi­ca­tions of IBU envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions possible.

IBU EPD Method­ol­o­gy Sem­i­nar for Life Cycle Assess­ment Experts

2017-09-18T13:40:58+02:0026.10.2017|

Method­ol­o­gy Sem­i­nar for Life Cycle Assess­ment Experts for the cre­ation of EPDs

IBU is hap­py to invite all LCA prac­tion­ers deal­ing with the cre­ation of EPDs in the pro­gramme of IBU to the sec­ond method­ol­o­gy sem­i­nar on Octo­ber 26, 2017 in Berlin.

Togeth­er with experts from the Advi­so­ry Board, our ver­i­fi­er com­mit­tee and the IBU office new infor­ma­tion will be pre­sent­ed and cur­rent ques­tions regard­ing LCA issues in the ver­i­fy­ing process will be clar­i­fied in order to make the 

What Fac­tors Deter­mine Whether a Build­ing Is Sustainable?

2017-11-09T11:32:04+01:0003.07.2017|

A new explana­to­ry film from the IBU shows the method­ol­o­gy behind sus­tain­able build­ing certification

The term ‘sus­tain­abil­i­ty’ seems to be on everyone’s lips. How­ev­er, it is fre­quent­ly used selec­tive­ly, and some­times with an over-inflat­ed mean­ing. Any­one who adver­tis­es their prod­ucts as being ‘sus­tain­able’ must be pre­pared to prove it. This is pre­cise­ly what the con­struc­tion mate­ri­als indus­try is doing with their Envi­ron­men­tal Prod­uct Dec

Focus on BIM, Stan­dard­i­s­a­tion, and Con­struc­tion Prod­uct Law

2020-12-02T13:30:28+01:0006.06.2017|

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.

5. IBU Ver­i­fi­er Meeting

2017-12-13T11:37:42+01:0009.03.2017|

Annu­al Meet­ing of IBU Ver­i­fiers in Berlin

On 2 March 2017, IBU host­ed all of the ver­i­fiers appoint­ed by the Advi­so­ry Coun­cil at the annu­al ver­i­fi­er meet­ing in Berlin. The pri­ma­ry aim of the one-day meet­ing was to clar­i­fy cur­rent ques­tions con­cern­ing the EPD ver­i­fi­ca­tion process and to ensure har­mon­i­sa­tion of ver­i­fi­ca­tion practices.

IBU Presents EPD Spe­cial Edi­tion at BAU 2017

2023-12-19T14:59:23+01:0023.01.2017|

EPD Spe­cial Edi­tion: Focus on Build­ing and the Environment

Togeth­er with the Schiele & Schön Pub­lish­ing House, the Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU), took advan­tage of the occa­sion of the BAU 2017 trade fair to present an EPD spe­cial  edi­tion of the jour­nal green­BUILD­ING.