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Open Data,

Open Data,

Design

resilient

buildings

with

better

environmental

performance.

Manage

your

building

portfolio's

carbon

footprint.

Develop

effective

climate

policy

and

decarbonization

strategies

Improve

resource

use

and

decrease

whole

life

cycle

emissions.

The Open Building Data Platform is now live! Take a sneak-peek or try it out.

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The Open Building Data Platform is now live February 17th! Take a sneak-peek.

Better buildings

Better buildings

GBDI’s mission is to empower industry leaders and policy makers with data-driven insights on how to enhance life cycle performance of buildings through design and engineering, to help define robust benchmarks, identify effective strategies, and set meaningful targets to drive concrete decarbonization action.

GBDI’s mission is to empower industry leaders and policy makers with data-driven insights on how to enhance life cycle performance of buildings through design and engineering, to help define robust benchmarks, identify effective strategies, and set meaningful targets to drive concrete decarbonization action.

GBDI’s mission is to empower industry leaders and policy makers with data-driven insights on how to enhance life cycle performance of buildings through design and engineering, to help define robust benchmarks, identify effective strategies, and set meaningful targets to drive concrete decarbonization action.

Better Decisions

Our data-driven insights offer strategic advantages via new perspectives on resource use and carbon emissions throughout the whole life cycle of buildings and across global supply-chains.

Better Materials

We facilitate appropriate product specifications for better buildings and help scale implementation of improved conventional materials as well as the shift to low carbon material alternatives.

Better Design

Our data and tools help optimize your building design, layout and structure to enhance material efficiency for optimal use of resources within tight financial and environmental budgets.

A platform built for climate action

The Open Building Data Platform uses a coordinated, open and scalable data model to enhance exchange and comparability of life cycle data. Leverage our open tools to go from building data to actionable insights that improve your building and policy design.

Open data protocol for global exchange

Database for visualizations and benchmarks 

Assessment methods for building data analytics

Portfolio

Project

Floor Area

GHG emissions
(Life Cycle Stages)

Building A

1035

A

B

C

Building B

1291

A

B

C

Building C

455

A

B

C

Building D

202

A

B

C

A platform built for climate action

The Open Building Data Platform uses a coordinated, open and scalable data model to enhance exchange and comparability of life cycle data. Leverage our open tools to go from building data to actionable insights that improve your building and policy design.

Open data protocol for global exchange

Database for visualizations and benchmarks 

Assessment methods for building data analytics

A platform built for climate action

The Open Building Data Platform uses a coordinated, open and scalable data model to enhance exchange and comparability of life cycle data. Leverage our open tools to go from building data to actionable insights that improve your building and policy design.

Open data protocol for global exchange

Database for visualizations and benchmarks 

Assessment methods for building data analytics

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A platform built for action

The Open Building Data Platform builds on a coordinated, open and scalable data model to enhance exchange and comparability of high quality WLC data. Use included tools to go from building data to actionable insights to inform your building - and policy design.

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A community initiative

A community initiative

GBDI is implemented under the umbrella of GLOBE - The Global Consensus on Sustainability in the Built Environment. 

GBDI is implemented under the umbrella of GLOBE - The Global Consensus on Sustainability in the Built Environment. 

The initiative is led by a team of researchers and experts in the field of sustainable construction materials and whole life carbon benchmarking and policy support, from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), The Institute for Regenerative Spatial System Science (RISE) and the Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

The initiative is led by a team of researchers and experts in the field of sustainable construction materials and whole life carbon benchmarking and policy support, from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), The Institute for Regenerative Spatial System Science (RISE) and the Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

We’re a global community dedicated to reducing resource use and emissions by improving the whole life cycle performance of buildings. Our members are experts on building materials and life cycle assessment of buildings, bringing in unique perspectives from research, industry and policy spaces.

By connecting key stakeholders and helping us all align our efforts we ensure the highest quality of support to our community.

Through global collaboration, open data and knowledge sharing we champion systems thinking for enabling sustainable building practices. 

Join today to share your expertise, learn from others, and contribute to our growing ecosystem of open data and tools for improving building’s life cycle performance at scale.

We’re a global community dedicated to reducing resource use and emissions by improving the whole life cycle performance of buildings. Our members are experts on building materials and life cycle assessment of buildings, bringing in unique perspectives from research, industry and policy spaces.

By connecting key stakeholders and helping us all align our efforts we ensure the highest quality of support to our community.

Through global collaboration, open data and knowledge sharing we champion systems thinking for enabling sustainable building practices. 

Join today to share your expertise, learn from others, and contribute to our growing ecosystem of open data and tools for improving building’s life cycle performance at scale.

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