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MAIN GOALS - GENERAL ACTIVITIES - FIELD OF EXPERTISES
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.
ACTIVITY RELATED TO LOW GHG AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND RESILIENT BUILDINGS
Through the development of a Global Network, of the GBDI Open Data Protocol (Open Building Data Format – openBDF) and the Open Building Data Platform, we are building a shared, harmonized framework that allows policymakers, industry leaders, and practitioners to measure, compare, report and accelerate the reduction of resource use as well as embodied and whole life carbon in buildings globally. This initiative supports transparency, interoperability, and collaboration - key enablers of a sustainable and decarbonized built environment.
Examples of GBDI Global Building Data Initiative advocacy and impact:
Development of the Open Building Data Format (openBDF) - a coordinated, flexible and open data exchange format aligned with leading initiatives – and publication of the GBDI OpenBDF Guidance Document (2025), which provides the foundation for global data alignment and collaboration on building decarbonization.
Development of the Open Building Data Platform (February 2025) – an open-source web platform that enables users to explore, upload, benchmark and analyse building lifecycle data across geographies and typologies – and publication of the Open Building Data Platform Guidance Document (2025), which outlines the design and development of the technical infrastructure and data management system for seamless global data collection and analysis. https://www.gbdi.io/understanding-the-data-collection-process
Global Stakeholder Engagement with international organizations, national governments, and professional networks to promote data transparency and coordinated climate action in the built environment sector. As well as contribution to policy dialogues and technical frameworks that integrate building data into national and international reporting mechanisms.
Development of a Global Whole Life Carbon Tracker for the Built Environment to scope out possible methodologies and data sources to compile a database of global emissions attributed to the built environment, broken down by embodied and operational emissions, and by world region/country if possible. The project should deliver an initial estimate to be published in the GlobalABC Global Status Report, and suggest ways to improve the data through international collaboration.
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