Buro Trinius - Sustainability in Building Construction

Consultancy Services

The building and construction sector is one of highest significance when addressing sustainability. The sector's relevance in terms of energy demand and associated impact on climate change is frequently being pointed out.

According to ISO 15392:2008, sustainable development in the building sector provides the required performance and functionality with minimum adverse environmental impact, while encouraging improvements in economic and socio-cultural aspects at local, regional and global levels.

The consideration of sustainability aspects of buildings and construction works needs to be holistic and needs to include all life cycle stages in order to avoid sub-optimization and in order to meet this core requirement of ISO 15392.

The consultancy services of Buro Trinius focus on quantitave life cycle assessment of economic and environmental sustainability aspects. The models and methods we apply can be tailored to the demands of our client's decision making context and can reflect potentials and constraints of the client's decision making. In these services, we bring together methodologies and items from

environmental life cyle assessment (LCA)
economic life cycle assessment | life cycle costing (LCC)
performance-based building
service life planning
life cycle performance
ecodesign
sustainable building

A highly pre-defined application of our services lies in the field of sustainability assessments and labeling of buildings. In this field, the detailed assessment procedures of DGNB, LEED or BREEAM define the model.

Especially for certiifaction according to the DGNB labeling scheme, Buro Trinius offers to

consult on the benefits of building certification
perform building audits
contribute to building audits, especially with the calculation of Life Cycle Costs and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
participate in auditing teams mainly with the aim support and train project partners in the work with DGNB requirements

News and Highlights:
	Green Growth Leaders: Accelerating the sustainable economy - Buro Trinius presenting "how to count LCC and LCA" at the workshop on "sustainable living in buidlings". Take Lead conference, Copenhagen. >>>
	TRITON DGNB Gold: DGNB Gold pre-certificate awarded to Allianz Global Investors' redevelopment of TRITON office building in downtown Frankfurt.
	Danish Green Building Council: Buro Trinius presents life cycle performance as key to sustainable building at the "green building does pay" seminar of DK-GBC and the export initiative "energy efficiency" of the German BMWi, federal ministry of economics and technology. >>>
	EU R&D project IRCOW: Innovative strategies for high-grade material recovery from construction and demolition waste. R&D project under the EU FP7 programme. >>>
	Buro Trinius 2000 - 2010: 10 years in international standardisation, R&D, methodology development, building labeling and consultancy in the field of sustainable building
	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB) e.V.: Co-Initiator, founding member, Auditor, member of the technical board... DGNB is the German council for sustainable building, founded in 2007 >>>
	Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V.: nominated independent verifier for environmental declarations of building products. IBU is program holder of the German environmental declaration scheme for building products. >>>
	Österreichische Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Immobilienwirtschaft: founding member and member of the technical board of the Autrian council for sustainable real estate >>>
	Europe-INNOVA 2008: STAND-INN awarded as best Europe-INNOVA Network 2008 Presentation on "Standards facilitating international knowledge transfer - the case of the construction sector" at the Europe-INNOVA conference, Lyon 2008
	International standard on sustainable construction: ISO 15392:2008 Sustainability in Building Construction - General Principles published in 2008