Sustainability

What sustainability means to us

Making simplicity a principle to avoid the superfluous

Designing naturally beautiful for healthy living and durable buildings

Offering perspective in a cycle of customer wishes and climate protection

Acting transparently because fair trade is important to us

Taking a stand out of conviction

offer information to make the building turnaround possible

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Reason for the world - The scientific evidence that mankind is responsible for climate change is irrefutable. The temperature of the earth’s biosphere has risen perceptibly over the past one hundred years. Extreme weather conditions are an ever more frequent phenomenon. If we fail to change our attitudes and lifestyles, global warming will have a devastating effect on our lives and those of future generations.

– From the preamble of the BDA Manifesto

Think future

Change · Transform

re:think

Change is everywhere. New ideas are needed, but also determination and courage to drive change.

re:use

Recycling is firmly anchored as a value in our ceramic DNA: We consistently close material cycles and develop sustainable product innovations.

re:duce

"Less is more" has many manifestations. And every millimeter of material counts in minimizing the carbon footprint of buildings.

Think future

Interviews

The effects of climate change and dwindling resources are serious and set the tone for a rapidly changing world. Change is everywhere: in new ways of living and working, mobility solutions. New ideas are needed, but also determination and courage to drive change without losing companies or industries. In the high pace of innovation that is demanded, we want to pause for a moment and give space to questions, thinking and discussions: What can be left undone, done better, contributed to achieve the climate goals we have set? So let's reset the hard drives in our heads and think together.

Less for more

Werner Sobek, founder of the Institute for Lightweight Design and Construction (ILEK) on the future of architecture

Breaking with traditional rules

Annabelle von Reutern, Head of Business Development, Concular, on resource-efficient construction

Unthinking desired

Anh-Linh Ngo, architect, author, curator German Pavilion of the Architecture Biennale '23, about his understanding of sustainable building

The four pillars of sustainability

Jasmin Dieterle-Proesel and Lennaart Sirag on the MVRDV DNA.

No management without measurement

Christian Donath, Managing Director of ECO Platform, on the latest EPD developments and what manufacturers should prepare for.

Building transformation with energy. A report from the crisis.

“Scotty, energy!”, Captain Kirk calls on the bridge as a signal to his chief engineer to power up the engines and carry the USS Enterprise at the speed...