The German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen e.V.) was founded in 2007 by 16 initiators from various subject areas within the construction and real-estate sectors. The aim was to promote sustainable and economically efficient building even more strongly in future.
The reaction to the founding of the DGNB was extremely positive. By the beginning of 2008 121 organizations had already joined the DGNB. Today the association has more than 1,200 members throughout the entire world, because we see ourselves as a German and international knowledge platform. The members represent the entire value chain of the construction and real-estate sectors: architects, planners, the construction industry, investors and scientists bring their comprehensive know-how into the DGNB.