Buro Trinius - Sustainability in Building Construction

Research and Development

Buro Trinius bases its consultancy services on a solid R&D background. Consequently, we aim to have a constant and solid representation in ongoing R&D projects. The involvement in research, development, innovation, standardization and consultancy generates the knowledge base Buro Trinius aims to apply to the best benefit of our clients.

Thematically, the R&D projects in which Buro Trinius participates are in the field of life cycle performance and sustainability applied to the products and services of the building and construction sector.

Buro Trinius is a member organization of CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) and Dr. Trinius is co-chair of the commission W80 on "prediction of service life of building materials and components". W80 is chaired together with Dr. Julien Hans of CSTB (France) and Prof. Bruno Daniotti of Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

Besides the R&D involvement of Buro Trinius, Dr. Trinius has participated in further international R&D activites that are of high relevance to our background and experience. For these, see personal profile & publications.

Highlights of R&D projects

IRCOW - "Innovative strategies for high-grade material recovery from construction and demolition waste".
This R&D project has the main goal to develop and validate upgraded technological solutions to achieve an efficient material recovery from C&D waste by considering a life cycle perspective. IRCOW started on Jan 17, 2011 as an EU project under the 7th framework programme. Buro Trinius participates in tasks related to life cycle assessment and ecodesign, and is to establish ecodesign guidance based on the project outcome.

Stand-Inn - "Integration of performance based building standards into business processes using IFC standards to enhance innovation and sustainable development".
This project concluded in 2008 and was awarded as nest Europe-INNOVA network 2008. Buro Trinius was a project partner and leader a work package bringing the sustainable buidling concepts and experience to the network. >>>

ECOPADEV - "Development of decision making tools for local authorities, promoting sustainable development on the basis of eco-industrial park strategies."
This project concluded in 2004 and was conducted under the 5th EU framework programme. Buro Trinius worked, together with ECN, on the subject of sustainable building. >>>

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