Labels, seals, environmental and quality labels

on ecological and sustainable building and living

Environmental and eco-labels can be divided into three categories:

Seal, the Materials evaluate them in terms of their sustainable origin and production,
Seals, which have certain Product features prove or
Seals that certify the sustainability of entire Building certify.

	ALLÖKH by Institute for Environment and Health - IUG Fulda. Indoor pollutant emissions and product materials (no longer on the market) www.iug-umwelt-gesundheit.de/alloekh
	EPD (Environmental Product Declarations) for building products according to EN 15804 Institute Construction and Environment e.V. https://ibu-epd.com
	"Der Blaue Engel" (The Blue Angel) comparatively environmentally and health compatible products www.blauer-engel.de
	eco-INSTITUT Germany GmbH, Cologne Test seal Certified products: www.eco-institut-label.de Commission certifications: https://www.eco-institut.de/de/portfolio/eco-institut-label/
	"ok-Power" - The sign of green energy www.ok-power.de
	European Eco-label www.eu-ecolabel.de/...ueber-das-eu-ecolabel www.ral-umwelt.de/eu-ecolabel
	European energy label for household (large) appliances www.umweltbundesamt.de/...neues-energielabel-fuer-elektrogeraete https://ec.europa.eu/…energy-label-and-ecodesign_en
	FSC seal Wood and wood products from sustainable forest management Consideration of environmental and social standards www.fsc-deutschland.de
	CSR label Corporate Social Responsibility Standard according to ISO 26000 http://csr-label.com/
	Golden M - high quality furniture taking into account environmental and health aspects www.dgm-moebel.de
	Green electricity - The green electricity label of the environmental associations www.gruenerstromlabel.de
	"Wood from here" label www.holz-von-hier.de
	IBO test mark Products: Wall building materials, building boards, plasters and insulating materials Austrian Institute for Building Biology, Vienna www.ibo.at/...ibo-pruefzeichen/
	Institute for Building Biology Rosenheim GmbH, Rosenheim (IBR) www.baubiologie-ibr.de
	VDB-ZERT (since January 2019) Berufsverband Deutscher Baubiologen VDB (Professional Association of German Building Biologists) has developed a certification system for assessing the quality of residential buildings in terms of their health compatibility for users. www.baubiologie.net/vdbzert.html
	German Cork Association www.kork.de
	LGA certification of building materials tested for harmful substances: http://ia.lga.de www.tuv.com/germany/de/lga-tested.html
	MIPS House (Resource Optimized Buildings) www.mipshaus.de
	Natureplus Environmentally conscious and health-compatible building materials, building products and furnishings www.natureplus.de
	Naturland among other things wood from ecological forest management www.naturland.de/...wald.html
	EcoControl Society for Quality Standards of Ecological Furniture Stores, Cologne www.oekocontrol.com
	ÖkoPlus AG Specialist trade association for ecological building and living www.oekoplus.de
	Öko-Test Product overview Building, Housing: www.oekotest.de/bauen-wohnen/...
	Austrian Ecolabel national ecolabel a.o. products in the range Building and Energy and Mobility
	PEFC stands for "Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes". https://pefc.de
	Phi - Certification of components suitable for passive houses https://passiv.de/…zertifizierung.htm
	R symbol of the ARGE kdR - Working Group for Controlled Declared Raw Materials e.V. Labelling of the proportions of resources in a product. In a scale of 10 in the R-symbol are shown: green the renewable parts, yellow the mineral and red the fossil product parts.
	RAL quality mark in construction www.ral-guetezeichen.de/gz-bereich-uebersicht/?bereich=baubereich Around the house www.ral-guetezeichen.de/gzhaus/start/
	RAL Quality Mark Solar The RAL Quality Mark 966 - for solar energy systems - covers photovoltaic, solar thermal and battery storage systems as well as the technologies directly coupled with them. www.ral-guetezeichen.de/guetesicherung-fuer-solarenergieanlagen-reaktiviert
	Sentinel House Institute
	Stiftung Warentest: comparative product tests focusing on quality, usability, also environmental aspects; test results are also available on the Internet www.test.de
	ToxFox: Scan BarCode, ask and shop toxin-free What pollutant groups are displayed and further information: www.bund.net/themen/chemie/toxfox
Reviews of other Building area – www.ral-guetezeichen.de/gz-bereich-uebersicht/?bereich=baubereich End customers – www.label-online.de of the Federal Association of Consumer Initiatives – www.memoworld.de/sortiment/umweltzeichen-labels

Erstellt von: sdg21-Redaktion am: 8. January 2020; Zuletzt aktualisiert: 14. June 2024