Sustainable Buildings - Environmental Product Declarations

Sustainable Building Environmental Product Declarations Sustainability assessment of construction projects Building certifications

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Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

Sustainable Building – going new ways Sustainable Building means to build and run buildings in an economical way that takes care of the environment and preserves resources. Thus, it shall contribute to the protection of human health and social as well as cultural values.

The forerunners of the sustainable building and real estate industry keep a wide range of topics in view and focus their activities on the essentials.

PE INTERNATIONAL supports you with: • Environmental Product Declarations according to ISO 14025 • Strategy development and Sustainability consulting

The Environmental Product Declaration according to ISO 14025 (EPD) contains verified and reliable information about the ecological performance of building products. EPDs present the informational basis of the sustainable building certification. PE INTERNATIONAL has compiled more than fourty Environmental Product Declarations and therefore benefits from an unequalled horizon of intersectoral experience.

Pioneers of sustainable building For 20 years, PE INTERNATIONAL works to improve sustainability. In this sense, our operations demonstrate experience, know-how and enthusiasm for an environment worth living • as initiator, founding and active member of the German and Austrian Sustainable Building Councils (“Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen e.V.”: DGNB and “Österreichische Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Immobilien- wirtschaft”: ÖGNI • in national and international standardisation activities • in the generation of life cycle assessment databases such as Ökobau.dat of the German Federal Ministry of Traffic, Building and Urban Development

Copper Environmental Profile

Sulfuric Acid Environmental Profile

Life Cycle Assessment

Life Cycle Assessment

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... Egger, Eternit, Foamglas, Kaldewei, Knauf, Pfleiderer, Poroton, Rheinzink, Rockwool, Saint-Gobain Isover, sto, Wieland, Xella...

• Software systems and management tools for a sustainable product development • Building certification according to the German Sustainable Building Certificate • Ecological and economic life cycle evaluations of buildings (life cycle assessment according to ISO 14040) • Environmental data for all industrial sectors • Carbon footprints for products and companies • Target group orientated communication of the ecological performance of companies, buildings or products Sustainability at first hand Companies around the world trust in the expertise and innovative solutions of PE INTERNATIONAL – consultancy, methods, software solutions and data from one source.

Source: Juhr Architekturbüro für Industriebau- und Gesamtplanung

Sustainable Building Design Sustainability has become a mainstay in building design, construction and operations worldwide and several green and sustainable building certifications are available in the market today. We help you identify optimal solutions throughout the life cycle of your project – from the first blueprint to deconstruction, at all scales from single buildings to complete developments.

We also support you in the certification process such as with the “German Sustainable Building Certificate” where we facilitated the two first industrial buildings to attain the gold standard.

Life Cycle Assessment data for Building Products

Since autumn 2008, PE INTERNATIONAL supplies ecological indicators for a variety of products in the form of the Ökobau. dat from the German Federal Ministry of Traffic, Building and Urban Development.

The Ökobau.dat 2009 contains life cycle assessment data of more than 600 products and is the basis of the German Sustainable Building Certificate.

Leading software solutions GaBi, the software to create life cycle assessments and EPDs as well as calculate life cycle costs of buildings, products or services. In addition, PE supplies ecological indicators for a variety of products and materials. SoFi, the sustainability software for operational environmental management, CSR management, corporate carbon footprints and emissions management. SoFi software is certified to conduct corporate carbon footprints and reports for the CDP reporting process.

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Sustainability, from consulting to software.

Sustainability awareness is the road to long-term corporate operation and a vibrant environment. PE INTERNATIONAL has been steadily guiding companies all over the world along this road since 1989. Today, PE INTERNATIONAL is the international market leader in strategic consultancy, software solutions and extensive services in the field of sustainability. Serving market leaders around the world, PE has offices in Stuttgart, Vienna, Copenhagen, Manchester, Tokyo, Taipei, Perth, Boston, Wellington, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Istanbul and Kuala Lumpur.

PE INTERNATIONAL provides conscientious companies with cutting-edge tools, in-depth knowledge and an unparalleled spectrum of experience in making both corporate operations and products more sustainable. Applied methods include implementing management systems, developing sustainability indicators, life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon footprint, design for environment (DfE) and environmental product declarations (EPD), technology benchmarking, or eco-efficiency analysis, emissions management, clean development mechanism projects and strategic CSR consulting.

Moreover, PE INTERNATIONAL offers two leading software solutions, with the GaBi software for product sustainability and the SoFi software for corporate sustainability.

Over 500 companies and institutes worldwide put their trust in PE INTERNATIONAL’s consultancy and software, including market and branch leaders such as Alcan, Allianz, Bayer, Daimler, Deutsche Post/DHL, Rockwool, Siemens, Toyota, ThyssenKrupp and Volkswagen.

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