The DGNB Certificate. Your system for sustainable quality.

The DGNB certificate is indispensable for everyone who plans sustainable buildings and wishes to document their quality. The high-performance system includes all relevant topics in the planning and assessment process based on the knowledge of the GeSBC‘s members. Thanks to its flexibility, it is continually being further developed, with new use profiles added all the time. In this process, experts from different sectors work together across disciplines to ensure the quality and wide scope of the system. The construction and real estate sectors are subject to constant change. In developing the GeSBC certificate, we therefore made flexibility and practical application the highest priorities. These two factors not only allow the system to be adapted to different building types, but also smoothly adjusted to accommodate future technical and societal conditions. Furthermore, conditions pertaining to the climate, construction, the law, and culture in other countries can also be taken into account. As a result, projects around the world can be certified on the same basis. That is the most important factor in the successful internationalization of the GeSBC and its certification system.

Ensuring quality. Broad expertise and clear processes.

In the ongoing further development of the DGNB certificate, the GeSBC places great store on practicability, transparency, and a constantly high quality level. To this end, we pursue a process in which every new use profile in the system undergoes various development phases (preparation, pilot, evaluation, and comments) and passes through GeSBC committees to get the broad expertise of GeSBC members. On the basis of this broad expertise, each use profile is further optimized incrementally to consistently ensure its quality. At the end of the process, the new use profile is launched on the market.