This trend will continue to grow in the future because many certification systems for sustainable construction reward the use of building products with EPDs - such as those from the German Sustainable Building Council (Deutschen Gesellschaft für nachhaltiges Bauen, DGNB). All of this was expressed in an ever-increasing supply of EPDs. Around 1500 EPDs from around 500 declaration holders are currently published by the Institut für Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) alone, for example - and the trend is rising. Harmonisation at the European level is ensured by the cooperation of local EPD program operators within the framework of the ...