Reviews

The services provided by Buro Trinius include the review and assessment of studies and reports of various kinds.

Dr. Trinius is a nominated independent reviewer to the German EPD system for building products. The declaration scheme is run by IBU. As the declarations are set up according to the requirements of ISO 14025, the publication of such Type III declarations precludes an independent review process.

Also environmental life cycle assessment studies, if following the provisions of ISO, must include an independent review process if the presented results are to be made public. We have participated in and coordinated several review panels. Typically such panels include three reviewers that ensure that the study at hand is in line with the requirements established in ISO 14040 and 14044.

The R&D experience is also reflected in assignments to review draft publications submitted scientific journals, and in the involvement in the scientific committees of international conferences, such as 11 dbmc, 12 dbmc and SB11. (dbmc is the tri-annual CIB conference series on durability of building materials and components, SB is the CIB conference series on sustainable building.)

The review experience of Buro Trinius began with our involvement in the evaluation of Bo01, the international Swedish building exhibition in Malmö 2001. Aspects of sustainable building and sustainable urban districts formed the main focus of the exhibition. The evaluation project related back to the documented ambitions and compared to the state of the art and the realized quarters in Malmö.

 

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Österreichische Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Immobilienwirtschaft:
founding member and member of the technical board of the Autrian council for sustainable real estate
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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