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Project update01 October 2026Featured

GBDI non-profit association founded
The Global Building Data Initiative has been established as a non-profit association under Austrian law, with RISE in a founding role.
Publication20 November 2025

A global buildings database, openly published
Whole life carbon, energy performance and material intensity for buildings worldwide - the dataset behind GBDI, released on Zenodo.

2025–2026CORFO Chile Public Goods Call

Chile: whole life carbon tool and data harmonisation with OpenBDF
Aligns Chile's national whole life carbon tool and building database with the open global data format from the start, so the data stays comparable.
2026–2027Global Industry Hub

GBDI China and India Cooperation Incubator
Extends the global building data work into the two markets that will add the most floor area this century.
2024–2025ClimateWorks Foundation

GBDI Global Building Data Initiative (Pilot)
Launched an open global data commons on resource use and upfront embodied carbon of new buildings.

The Global Building Data Initiative (GBDI): Open Data Methods and Tools for Whole Life Carbon Decarbonization
Di Santo N, Batra Z, de Courten-Serikoff L, Röck M, Scrivener K

Proceedings of the 7th fib Congress, Lisbon 2026 (fib), 2026.
A global buildings database: whole life cycle GHG emissions, energy performance, and material intensity
Röck M, Sørensen A, Balouktsi M, Ruschi Mendes Saade M, Rasmussen F, Alaux N, Hoxha E, Satola D, Truger B, Tozan B, Kuittinen M, Frischknecht R, Birgisdottir H, Habert G, Lützkendorf T, Allacker K, Passer A

Zenodo, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8378938