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IBU at BAU 2019 Visit us in Hall B0, Stand 205!
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Attention all IBU Members and declaration owners: the IBU warmly invites you to attend the Annual General Meeting, to be held on 4 June 2019 in Berlin. The agenda for this year’s meeting includes Board elections, information on the revisions – expected in late autumn – to the European EPD standard EN 15804+A2, including how these revisions will be implemented at the IBU, presentation of our new “ProSys” product information system, and information on the digitisation of life cycle assessment data
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Given the current situation we had to cancel this year’s General Assembly in June. We therefore kindly ask our members to vote on the necessary decisions regarding IBU e.V. in writing. In order to make this unusual process as easy as possible we offer a webinar “Background information regarding this year’s vote on IBU topics”: Thursday, July 16th, 2020 at 14:00 CEST (around 90 min plus Q&A session) On July 13th, 2020, all members will receive an e-mail with the ballot sheet and all ne
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Attention all IBU Members and declaration owners: the IBU warmly invites you to attend the Annual General Meeting, to be held on June 1st 2021 (online). The invitations were sent out by mail to all members on 30.04.2021. If you have not received an e-mail, please contact us at members@ibu-epd.com. --> Here you can find the agenda
Find out moreEnvironmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are established communication tools for the environmental performance of products, especially in the context of green building programs. But EPDs can do more! For the building and construction industry, decarbonization of the supply chain (Scope 3 emissions) plays a key role in achieving the EU net-zero emissions target by 2050. Requests from downstream customers, combined with increasing pressure from policymakers and investors, are forcing companies to
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Webinar by Jane Anderson, ConstructionLCA: Generating EPDs – Tips from an Experienced LCA Practitioner and Verifier What do I need to know to successfully generate an Environmental Product Declaration? What are typical mistakes and omissions that cost time in the verification process? Jane Anderson, a leading expert on building LCA and approved IBU Verifier, will talk about these topics from the point of view of both an LCA practitioner and a verifier for IBU’s EPD programme. Given Jane’s outsta
Find out moreWebinar by Alexander Röder, IBU: The International Dimension of EPDs – Validity, Mutual Recognition, European Collaboration In recent times, stakeholders increasingly seek advice on topics regarding the international dimension of EPDs: Are EPDs published with IBU recognized all over Europe and beyond? What additional requirements may apply in certain countries? What does mutual recognition mean, and how does it relate to multilateral initiatives such as EcoPlatform and InData? What is the relati
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We published a new version of the PCR Part A (calculation rules for the life cycle assessment and requirements for the project report in accordance with EN 15804+A2:2019). The IBU is offering a webinar on the new PCR Part A on 10.06.2024 at 10 a.m. The Chairman of the IBU Advisory Board, Dr. Frank Werner, will explain the new features of PCR Part A. The most important new features of the updated version of PCR Part A are clarifications on the handling of renewable energies in
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Stefan Zwerenz, Head of the Verification Body at IBU, will immerse you in the exciting world of EPDs (Environmental Product Declarations). He will explain the content and information in an EPD and how it is used at component and building level. He will also provide an outlook on digitalisation in the context of EPDs. EPDs identify the environmental impact of a building product over its entire life cycle - standardised, independently verified and digitally applicable. This data basis forms a cruc
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The Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. discusses the mass balance approach at the 4th Life Cycle Innovation Conference 2024 The Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) is actively committed to ecological transparency and sustainability in the construction industry and is bringing these topics into focus at the 4th Life Cycle Innovation Conference 2024 (LCIC). The controversial mass balance approach - an analytical tool for monitoring and controlling material flows in the production process - will be ex
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