Sustainable building – with Admonter
Anyone planning to build a house in Germany and wishing to receive funding from KfW must meet sustainability criteria. These are confirmed by the Quality Seal for Sustainable Buildings, or QNG for short.
The QNG seal is an official, state seal of quality that considers a building in combination with its surroundings as a holistic system. Therefore, not only the energy consumption during use plays a role, but also the entire life cycle, including the production of the materials used and their impact on health.
The idea behind it is similar to LEED, which is already widely used internationally on a voluntary basis for large-scale projects (Admont products also have detailed documentation for verifiers)
The catalog of criteria in the QNG handbook ensures that requirements for climate protection, resource conservation, health protection and the quality of the planning process are met. The health effects of the building materials used on the subsequent users are therefore key factors, as there is no certificate without health-tested, healthy building products. All the requirements that materials must meet can be found in Annex 3.1.3 of the QNG. This document specifies maximum pollutant values, for example.
As we at Admonter stand for tested quality, we have now also had the large number of our ecologically relevant product tests specifically certified by the Sentinel Institute for the criteria according to QNG, and have received the award for QNG-Ready products.
You can download the collected certificates here.
Naturalness and sustainability have been a basic requirement for our products right from the start. Admonter was also the first Austrian natural flooring manufacturer to be awarded the Austrian Ecolabel back in 2017.
You can find all the details about our sustainability efforts in our sustainability folder below.
Many people talk about sustainability these days, and we at Admonter guarantee it.
