Austrian Society for Sustainable Building
| Austrian Society for Sustainable Building (ÖGNB) |
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| legal form | Association ( ZVR : 096334476) |
| founding | February 28, 2009 |
| founder | Initiators: Robert Lechner, Bernhard Lipp; |
| Seat | Vienna 7 |
| motto | Against greenwash in the construction industry! |
| main emphasis | Knowledge transfer and quality systems for sustainable building |
| Action space | international and national |
| Chair | Robert Lechner (Chairman), Bernhard Lipp (Deputy) |
| Managing directors | Susanne Geissler |
| Members | approx. 50 (as of July 2012) |
| Website | www.oegnb.net |
The Austrian Society for Sustainable Building (ÖGNB) sees itself as an umbrella organization for all those companies, institutions and also individuals in Austria who are interested in a higher qualification of the Austrian construction industry in terms of sustainable building .
Agendas
Operationally, the following sub-goals are pursued:
- Building evaluation systems : Building evaluation systems , which are further developed under the umbrella of the ÖGNB, were developed as an open standard from the start and made freely available to interested persons, companies and institutions.
- Sustainable quality improvement for the construction industry : As an open source developer, the ÖGNB wants to consciously counteract the trend towards expensive labels. Knowledge, methods and tools for sustainable quality improvement in the Austrian and international construction industry are made available as free as possible to all those who want to contribute to a significantly higher qualification of the construction process through their work.
- Knowledge transfer : In addition, the Austrian construction and real estate industry is specifically supported through congresses, events, media work and the exchange of experience.
membership
Membership is basically possible for all those people, companies and institutions who contribute their knowledge in the field of sustainable building and want to support the goals of the ÖGNB.
History of the ÖGNB
The ÖGNB was entered in the register of associations on February 28, 2009, after it was founded in January 2009 by Robert Lechner ( Austrian Institute for Ecology ) and Bernhard Lipp ( Austrian Institute for Building Biology and Building Ecology ). In addition to the two institutions mentioned, the Austrian Energy Agency , the Energy Institute Vorarlberg and the Austrian Society for Environment and Technology act as founding institutes . Collectively, these independent research and consulting institutes unite more than 200 experts, for the broad range of topics Sustainable Building of the architecture on the building physics and technical building design , climate protection and energy efficiency through to urban and regional planning have extensive expertise. The ÖGNB is ultimately an amalgamation of those organizations that have been involved in the development and application of building assessment systems in Austria since the late 1990s . The Austrian Institute of Ecology brought into the ÖGNB with Total Quality Building - TQB the first comprehensive building assessment system (initial development: 1998) in German-speaking as a basis for quality assurance of buildings, and the Austrian Institute for Healthy and Ecological Building with the IBO Ökopass a Extremely successful rating system for residential buildings (more than 200 objects in large-volume residential buildings) introduced into the cooperation. Not least, all of the founding institutes operate within the framework of klima: aktiv Bauen und Sanieren , the official climate protection initiative of the Austrian Environment Ministry as an Austria-wide network for sustainable building.
TQB - the building evaluation system of the ÖGNB
The founding institutes bring extensive experience in the development of quality targets and associated assessment systems for buildings. As a result of the cooperation between organizations that have previously been competing on this topic for the first time in Europe, there is a concentrated concentration of knowledge and experience from all building evaluation systems used in Austria in recent years. The founding institutes of the ÖGNB are responsible for the development and successful application of the following assessment procedures for a total of more than 300 properties in Austria:
- TQB 2002
- IBO ecopass
- klima: aktiv building standard
and based on this, the ÖGNB's rating system:
- TQB 2010
The TQB 2010 assessment system used by the ÖGNB builds on the experience gained with these systems and also includes new developments and findings in building assessment from Germany and abroad. TQB is the only assessment system in Austria that was created around ten years ago on the basis of international cooperation as part of the Green Building Challenge . Rating systems such as BREEAM or LEED, like TQB, were further developed within the framework of this international cooperation on the basis of rating systems that were already in place in the 1990s. In contrast, the DGNB rating system, which originated in Germany, was only developed in 2009.
TQB 2002
The development of Total Quality Building Assessment (TQ) started in 1998. Like numerous other building assessment systems (e.g. LEED, BREEAM, HQE), TQ can be traced back to the international “Green Building Challenge” initiative. Total Quality Building documents the quality of a building from planning to construction to use in the TQ building certificate. The certificate is the end product of the integrated TQ planning and evaluation process. The certification makes the quality of a building visible, usable and comparable and thus brings advantages and security for marketing. The evaluation criteria for TQ 2002 are described in detail in the TQ criteria catalog (available as PDF), including methodological explanations and tips for achieving high execution quality. These criteria definitions also serve as planning goals for user-friendly, environmentally friendly and cost-effective buildings. Since it was first created, TQ certification has been a comprehensive quality assurance system that supports the management and marketing of the “better” buildings and has gone far beyond a mere environmental assessment from the start. From 2004 to 2008, around 60 properties from the areas of residential construction (new buildings, existing ones), office buildings and special buildings (shopping centers, schools, kindergartens) were recorded and assessed with TQ. The buildings were recorded, documented and assessed in a total of nine assessment categories. With the publication of TQB 2010 as an assessment method of the ÖGNB, TQ 2002 is no longer used.
The nine assessment categories of TQB 2002 were:
- Resource conservation: All aspects of resource consumption are included in the resource conservation category. This includes the (primary) energy consumption for the construction of the building, the transport of the building materials to the construction site, the energy consumption for the building operation, but also aspects of land consumption and drinking water consumption. Detailed description: TQB assessment category 1 - resource conservation (available as PDF)
- Reduction of pollution for people and the environment: The second assessment category deals with those aspects that can indirectly or directly lead to pollution of users and / or the environment. These include, for example, questions about atmospheric emissions (global warming potential, acidification, ozone pollution), waste generation, material use, avoidance of motorized private transport, mold and radon pollution. Detailed description: TQB evaluation category 2 - Reduction of pollution for humans and the environment (available as PDF)
- Comfort for users: In the area of user comfort, numerous aspects of the health and social quality of the property are taken into account. This includes, among other things, thermal comfort in summer and winter, daylight supply and direct sunlight, sound insulation and building automation. Detailed description: TQB evaluation category 3 - comfort of use
- Longevity: The longevity of the building category, for example, evaluates how flexible the construction is for changes in use and what principles exist for the most comfortable possible building operation. Detailed description: TQB assessment category 4 - durability
- Security: Security includes questions of property protection and fire protection as well as the handling of accessibility and environmental risks (natural hazards such as floods, mudslides, avalanches, etc .; distance to high-voltage lines, earthquake safety). Detailed description: TQB assessment category 5 - safety
- Planning quality: The evaluation of the quality of planning services is central to the development of sophisticated properties. The assessment includes the existence of variant analyzes, clear targets for the different design areas as well as follow-up cost estimates and the basis for building operation. Detailed description: TQB assessment category 6 - planning quality
- Construction quality: After completion, the construction quality is checked. In addition to complete and comprehensive construction documentation, measurements (noise protection, indoor air quality, airtightness, thermography) are required as verified quality certificates. Detailed description: TQB evaluation category 7 - Quality assurance construction (available as PDF)
- Infrastructure and equipment: The equipment quality of the property and the connection of the property location to high-quality infrastructure (public transport, daily needs, social and cultural infrastructure) are essential for the satisfaction of the users. Detailed description: TQB assessment category 8 - infrastructure and equipment
- Costs: When documenting the costs, both the construction costs and the operating and maintenance costs over the entire life cycle are discussed. Detailed description: TQB assessment category 9 - costs
TQB 2010
TQB 2010 is an update and simultaneous simplification of TQB 2002 and, in contrast to the previous version, includes the following five assessment categories:
- Location and equipment
- Economic and technical quality
- Energy and supply
- Health and comfort
- Resource efficiency
Each of these five assessment categories is assigned 200 achievable quality points, i.e. a total of 1,000 quality points. This linear evaluation system appears extremely practicable in terms of traceability and transparency: The evaluation result of a building is easily comprehensible from the outside - by the end user (e.g. 900 out of 1,000 possible quality points) and is deliberately not assigned symbolic evaluation categories (such as gold / silver / bronze ) clauses. The ÖGNB expects the highest possible degree of transparency in the building evaluation and thereby an active contribution to the seriousness of the evaluation system and against conscious or unconscious green washing.
All evaluation criteria, their weighting and consideration are free of charge and accessible at any time to anyone interested in the content of the system. The system itself can be used via an online portal. Buildings can then be declared if you have registered (free of charge). All criteria definitions, tools and manuals can be obtained and used free of charge on this online portal. This low-threshold access and the development as an open-source community enables numerous synergies.
Cooperations of the ÖGNB
In terms of an open source community, the ÖGNB takes the view that high-quality further development of the Austrian construction industry can only be achieved through open cooperation and the sharing of knowledge, resources and dissemination possibilities for sustainable building. Partnerships with the ÖGNB are possible in many ways:
- Joint organization of events
- Cooperative development and implementation of R&D projects
- Media and communication partnerships
- Direct exchange of experiences with the members of the ÖGNB
- Announcement of competitions, awards and prizes for sustainable building
- Targeted further development of local, regional and / or national quality systems based on the ÖGNB evaluation methodology and much more
Current cooperations exist, for example
- in the development of the Austrian EPD platform for product declaration of building materials
- as part of the FTI project Superbuildings
- with klima: aktiv construction and renovation , the official building evaluation system of the Austrian Ministry of the Environment
- with the EU's GreenBuilding program , which is supported by the IBO (as the founding institute of the ÖGNB) as the national contact in Austria
- with the FTI program Haus der Zukunft PLUS , probably the most innovative and comprehensive R&D program in the field of sustainable building in all of Europe
- with the Austrian State Prize for Architecture and Sustainability , the most demanding architecture prize in the field of sustainable building in Europe
- and also with nextroom , the most comprehensive architecture database in German-speaking countries
The cooperations are continuously expanded and supplemented. At present, for example, aspern, Vienna 's Urban Lakeside, the largest urban development area in Europe, is quality assured with the building assessment system of the ÖGNB.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Austrian Ecology Institute
- ↑ Web presence of the IBO
- ↑ ÖGNB website
- ↑ EAA website
- ↑ EIV website
- ↑ ÖGUT website
- ↑ Overview of the IBO Ecopass
- ↑ The klima: aktiv website
- ↑ Comprehensive explanation of TQB 2002 on the ÖGNB website
- ↑ ÖGNB's online evaluation system
- ↑ Current cooperation of the ÖGNB
- ↑ Project information SuperBuildings
- ↑ Program page klima: aktiv building and renovation ( Memento from January 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ National Host European Green Building Austria
- ^ House of the future program information
- ^ State Prize for Architecture and Sustainability ( Memento from August 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ nextroom - the architecture database
- ↑ Information system Aspern Seestadt Wien