The German Sustainable Building
Council (DGNB for “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen”) is the
partner you need to harmonize these aspects. With our certification
system, we help you optimize and document the quality of your projects.
Climate change, resource scarcity, and the financial crisis – society faces a wide range of challenges today and has to assume responsibility for current problems, rather than pass them on to future generations. As a result, sustainability has become a principle of our age. But sustainable development is only possible if ecological, economic, and social goals are equally emphasized and simultaneously pursued.
Buildings are responsible for approximately 30 % of raw material use and 40 % of energy consumption and carbon emissions worldwide. Sustainable building aims to systematically reduce these figures by focusing on future developments in these fields. At the same time, sustainable building provides social and economic benefits. In the summer of 2007, leading experts from various fields in the construction and real estate sectors therefore founded the German Sustainable Building Council.
The future is the present. The DGNB's goals.
The DGNB‘s constantly growing community of members shares one primary goal: the ongoing pursuit of sustainable, and therefore economically efficient, building practice. We do so by systematically sharing expertise, providing training for market players, and raising awareness about the issue among the general public. Furthermore, we work with our members to continually develop and advance the internationally acknowledged DGNB certificate for environmentally friendly, economically efficient, and user-friendly buildings.
As a non-profit and non-governmental organization, the DGNB‘s bylaws stipulate that it serves the general good. To practice what we believe in, we primarily focus on developing criteria to increase the quality of future buildings in ecological, economic, socio-cultural, and technical terms. This enables building owners and investors not only to plan, construct, and operate their projects affordably and with minimal environmental impact, but also to promote the well-being of building occupants.
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