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Datasheets, delivery notes and weighing notes are forwarded to a dedicated project email or uploaded directly.
The platform reads the documents, extracts relevant information and evaluates material health indicators, emissions data and other required DGNB parameters.
The user reviews flagged risks and approve materials in the platform, creating a structured approved materials list.
When materials are delivered, the system checks whether they match the approved list and logs quantities.
Dashboard shows documentation status, certified wood %, soil volumes, transport data and potential compliance gaps.
Download documentation for DGNB certification easily and automatically.
As a main or trade contractor on a DGNB project, you typically need to document: the share of FSC/PEFC-certified timber (ENV 1.3), health indicators and emissions like VOC for chemical products (ENV 1.2), environmental impact from specific materials such as concrete and steel (ENV 1.1), resource use and waste management on site (PRO 2.1), and transport data for materials, machinery, and soil.
The specific requirements depend on the project's ambition level and how the developer has structured their points strategy. What they all have in common: documentation must be traceable and tied to actual deliveries — not estimates.
From day one. That's the short answer. The slightly longer one: documentation collected continuously is significantly easier to work with than documentation reconstructed after the fact. Delivery notes, weighbridge tickets, and datasheets accumulate fast, and if they aren't logged close to the delivery date, tracing them back to specific materials and quantities becomes time-consuming.
That's precisely why Acembee runs in the background from the start of the project, so documentation is complete and structured by the time the certification process begins.
No. Acembee does not replace the auditor, and that's not the intention. The DGNB-responsible person still owns the process, the assessments, and the professional judgement calls. What Acembee does is remove the manual work underneath: collecting documents, extracting data, matching delivery notes, and tracking what's missing.
The result is that the DGNB-responsible person spends their time on professional work rather than administration, and the auditor receives structured, audit-ready documentation instead of a folder of loose files.
Yes. Acembee is built to work with the documentation that already flows into a construction project — datasheets from suppliers, delivery notes from subcontractors, and weighbridge tickets from waste collections. Subcontractors forward documents to a dedicated project email, or they can be uploaded directly in the platform.
There are no requirements for special formats, new systems on the subcontractors' end, or changes to existing workflows. The platform handles what comes in.
DGNB requires that a certain share of the timber used in construction is FSC or PEFC certified, and that this can be documented. In practice, that means certification details need to be extracted from delivery notes and matched to the actual quantities delivered to the project.
In Acembee, this happens automatically. The platform extracts certification data from incoming delivery notes and continuously calculates the current share of certified timber, so you can always see whether the project is on track relative to the DGNB requirement, without anyone having to count manually.
If a material doesn't meet DGNB's chemical requirements — for example VOC emission thresholds or health indicators — it will typically either reduce the point score or block a specific certification level. What matters most is when it's discovered: at approval or at audit.
In Acembee, materials are assessed automatically when datasheets are uploaded. If a product has potential issues relative to DGNB criteria, it's flagged before it ends up on the approved materials list. That gives you time to find alternatives, rather than discovering the problem when it's too late to change anything.
