The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a tool available to the construction industry that supplies clearly defined, neutral and scientifically-based environmental product declaration information on the impact of building products to the environment. Making specific product ecological assessments available is – amongst others – necessary for the overall view of sustainable buildings and their certification. Aspects of sustainability could therefore be started with the production of raw materials and the manufacture of all components, and could be traced along the overall value-added chain. The ‘Institut Bauen und Umwelt e. V.‘ (IBU), with about 230 members throughout Europe is the largest association in Europe of manufacturers of the building material industry and has published up to now 2500 Environmental Product Declarations covering in turn more than thousand product groups and individual products. During the course of the past year, these EPDs were called up more than 350,000 times on the IBU website and downloaded. Compared to 2018 the number of call-ups and downloads has more than doubled.
“The huge rise in enquiries within a few years shows that sustainability has reached the construction industry and is widely practised “, says IBU Manager, Dr. Alexander Röder. In this connection EPDs are increasingly more often used in tenders. Architects and planning engineers fall back on them also to set up ecological assessments for buildings, in order to quantify and optimise the ecological footprint in this way. Building owners and investors, too, evaluate objects increasingly in this manner – and not only because the sustainability of buildings has become a generally accepted driver of the market value in the meantime.
As one of the internationally leading drivers for environmental product declarations in the construction industry, IBU has created basic prerequisites such that ecological aspects are incorporated into the assessment of sustainability of buildings. Thanks to their practical, scientific and political commitment, IBU has an industrial standard that established itself in all sections of the building industry. All EPDs of the IBU are based on international standards and are certified by independent third parties.
All EPDs published can be found at:
www.ibu-epd.com/veroeffentlichte-epds/
For further information please contact: Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V., Hegelplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Tel.: +49 (0) 30 30 87 74 8 - 0, Fax: +49 (0) 30 30 87 74 8 - 29, E-Mail: info@ibu-epd.com sowie im Internet unter www.ibu-epd.com.
“The huge rise in enquiries within a few years shows that sustainability has reached the construction industry and is widely practised “, says IBU Manager, Dr. Alexander Röder. In this connection EPDs are increasingly more often used in tenders. Architects and planning engineers fall back on them also to set up ecological assessments for buildings, in order to quantify and optimise the ecological footprint in this way. Building owners and investors, too, evaluate objects increasingly in this manner – and not only because the sustainability of buildings has become a generally accepted driver of the market value in the meantime.
As one of the internationally leading drivers for environmental product declarations in the construction industry, IBU has created basic prerequisites such that ecological aspects are incorporated into the assessment of sustainability of buildings. Thanks to their practical, scientific and political commitment, IBU has an industrial standard that established itself in all sections of the building industry. All EPDs of the IBU are based on international standards and are certified by independent third parties.
All EPDs published can be found at:
www.ibu-epd.com/veroeffentlichte-epds/
For further information please contact: Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V., Hegelplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Tel.: +49 (0) 30 30 87 74 8 - 0, Fax: +49 (0) 30 30 87 74 8 - 29, E-Mail: info@ibu-epd.com sowie im Internet unter www.ibu-epd.com.
