On 28 November 2024, BPIE and the Building Passport Alignment Project team from University College London (UCL), organised an in-person workshop to identify and discuss the opportunities for the prospective evolution of Digital Building Logbooks (DBLs), explore how they can support data transparency, availability, and assurance for a broad range of market players, across the construction and real estate information chain.
The one-day event – funded by the Circular Buildings Coalition – brought together EU policymakers from a broad range of policy areas along with finance providers, building sector stakeholders, logbook developers, and the academic community. Representatives from the European Commission (DG GROW, DG ENER, DG ENV and HaDEA), as well as from the UNEP and the Global ABC actively contributed to the different discussions tackled throughout the day.
The first part of the workshop was dedicated to short presentations that introduced the topic of DBLs and set the scene. This included the welcoming words of BPIE’s Executive Director, Oliver Rapf, who was followed by the two main organisers of the event, Kell Jones, from the Building Passport Alignment project and Zsolt Toth, Team Lead at BPIE. Zsolt also referred the policy work done by BPIE in context of the Demo-BLog project, a policy factsheet on DBLs in the EU.