The DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council) offers a comprehensive certification system that evaluates buildings based on five key aspects: ecology, economy, sociocultural quality, technical quality, and process quality. It assesses environmental impact, cost-effectiveness, occupant well-being, and building systems durability. The DGNB provides four certification tiers—Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum—which are awarded based on a building's overall sustainability performance, with Platinum being the highest level. This flexible and adaptable certification is valuable for promoting sustainable building practices across diverse projects. DGNB certification is recognized internationally and is a valuable tool for achieving high-performance, sustainable buildings. This certification scheme is widely used in Denmark.
Climify helps attain DGNB certification through comprehensive data and insights across all assessment areas:
Climify can continuously collect energy data and generate insights through reports. We aim to help buildings achieve carbon-neutral operations by suggesting and evaluating improvement measures, benchmarking performance, and eventually implementing detailed CO2 reporting and technical monitoring.
This supports DGNB's ENV1-B Climate Action and Energy goal.
Our platform helps track operational costs and optimize building processes, supporting cost reduction and improving long-term asset value as part of ECO1-B Operation Costs and ECO2-B Risk Management and Asset Value.
Climify enables data collection on water consumption, along with analytics and reporting, to help reduce potable water use. We support the ENV2-B Water objective by offering insights into consumption patterns and helping set and monitor targets for water efficiency.
Climify ensures high standards of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) by setting specific comfort targets and continuously collecting data through IoT devices. This data is used to generate detailed reports that monitor and enhance indoor conditions. We provide actionable insights to improve air quality, thermal comfort, and overall indoor comfort, contributing to DGNB’s SOC1-B Indoor Comfort criteria.
We also support SOC2-B User Satisfaction by facilitating user feedback collection and offering effective complaint management tools. Climify engages building users through interactive features and promotes transparency in building performance, enabling a better understanding of their environment. Our platform fosters communication and strategies to enhance user well-being and satisfaction.
The data we provide aligns with the CSR reporting needs of DGNB "In Use," offering transparency through KPIs like energy consumption, water use, and user satisfaction, which contribute to long-term sustainability goals.
DGNB certification emphasizes high indoor air quality, thermal comfort, and occupant health, ensuring that buildings provide a comfortable and healthy environment for users.
DGNB-certified buildings benefit from lower maintenance and operational costs due to the use of durable materials, efficient systems, and optimized processes, ensuring long-term financial sustainability.
By focusing on sustainable practices, DGNB certification helps reduce the environmental footprint of buildings, contributing to broader climate goals and corporate social responsibility.
The certification process encourages the adoption of energy-efficient practices and technologies, leading to reduced energy consumption and lower operational costs over the building's lifecycle.
DGNB certification increases a building's marketability and value by demonstrating its commitment to sustainability, energy efficiency, and occupant well-being, making it more attractive to buyers, tenants, and investors.
Achieving DGNB certification ensures that buildings meet or exceed current sustainability standards, making them more resilient to future regulatory changes and market demands.