DGNB and BAU step up their cooperation: The first DGNB Special Show at BAU 2013

3 December 2012, 00:00

Messe München GmbH and The German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen) will in future be working more closely together. This new phase of cooperation starts with a milestone event: the DGNB´s Special Show at BAU 2013 in Munich, the World´s Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials, Systems.

The show, entitled "Sustainable construction: a transparent guide to the appropriate product", is being put on by DGNB together with partners from industry and research; it will feature a range of completed and outstanding projects illustrating how building products can be used successfully in the production, operation and certification of sustainable buildings. A key tool for architects and planners in this is the DGNB´s online "Navigator", a new expanded edition of which will be presented at BAU for the first time.

The DGNB and its partners, all highly regarded in their fields, will be offering visitors to BAU 2013 first-hand information at the show in Hall C2 (booth no. 311). An attractive program of lectures is also offered, on topics such as the right way to use building products to create a more comfortable living and working environment, the role flexible build solutions can play in sustainable building and how product costs can impact positively on life-cycle costs. Visitors to the special show can also look forward to gaining interesting insights into the growth market in sustainable building and finding out about new opportunities.

For the future BAU and DGNB are aiming to further intensify their conceptual work. For example, it is planned to organize regular joint events to familiarize the exhibitors at BAU with the challenges and opportunities presented by sustainable building.

Also in the pipeline are considerations on how the DGNB Navigator can be made extensively available for the exhibitors at BAU, and on how to better link the offerings of BAU and the DGNB Navigator. That way both BAU and the DGNB would be providing attractive and easily accessible added-value content for the exhibitors and their products.

We thank our partners for their support in the design of the content in this special show.

Further information

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen e.V.

Kronprinzstraße 11

70173 Stuttgart

Tel.: +49 (0)711 72 23 22-0

Fax : +49 (0)711 72 23 22-99

e-mail: info@dgnb.de

www.dgnb.de

www.dgnb-system.de

Your press contacts at BAU 2013:

Johannes Manger and Benjamin Büttner