# Institut für Baubiologie + Nachhaltigkeit (IBN)

> The German institute behind the SBM building biology testing methodology and its precautionary evaluation bands, and the training body for building-biology consultants.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/organizations/ibn
- Collection: Organizations
- Record id: `organizations:ibn`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/organizations/ibn
- Also known as: Institute of Building Biology and Sustainability, Baubiologie IBN

## Key values

- **Role:** certification
- **Jurisdiction:** DE, International
- **Website:** https://buildingbiology.com/

## Certifications and methodologies

- Building Biology Consultant IBN
- SBM-2024 testing methodology

## Related records

- [Building Biology SBM-2024 evaluation guidelines](https://emfbase.com/standards/building-biology-sbm-2024): Precautionary assessment bands used by building biologists to grade bedroom measurements from 'no anomaly' to 'extreme anomaly'; not exposure limits and not law.
- [Sleeping-area assessment (full four-quantity survey)](https://emfbase.com/protocols/sleeping-area-assessment): The combined survey building-biology practice applies to a bedroom: RF power density, AC magnetic field, AC electric field and body voltage, each graded against its own band.

## Sources

- `sbm-2024` Institut für Baubiologie + Nachhaltigkeit (IBN) (2024). *Building Biology Evaluation Guidelines for Sleeping Areas (SBM-2024)*. https://buildingbiology.com/site/downloads/SBM-2024_EVALUATION_GUIDELINES_EN.pdf — ngo, link checked 2026-08-12
- `ibe-building-biology` IBN / buildingbiology.com. *Institute of Building Biology + Sustainability IBN — building biology testing and training*. https://buildingbiology.com/ — ngo, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

This record is reference data, not medical or legal advice. Regulatory limits, scientific guidelines and precautionary values are labelled separately and answer different questions.