Indicators for Sustainability Assessment
in the Procurement of Civil Engineering
Services
Nora Pankow, Rainer Bruggemann, Jan Waschnewski, Regina Gnirss,
and Robert Ackermann
1 Introduction
In order to face global challenges, the UN passed a joint solution also known
as Agenda 2030. UN member states declare themselves ready to implement the
Agenda 2030 and its set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) on a national
level (UN 2015). Germany applied the ideas of the Agenda 2030 in the German
Sustainability Strategy and adjusted the SDGs from the global perspective to a
German perspective with specific indicators for the different goals (Bundesregierung
2016). The strategy also states that for an inclusion of a sustainable development
a further implementation into economy, academics and civil society is necessary
(Bundesregierung 2016).
The rising awareness for sustainability, increases the demand for companies
to include and monitor different objectives not just from governmental but also
from customer side (Jasch 2009; Koplin 2006). Consequently, mandatory indicators
must be expanded. The Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB) provide Berlin and parts of
the state Brandenburg with drinking water and are responsible for the wastewater
N. Pankow () · R. Ackermann
Institute of Environmental Science & Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin,
Germany
e-mail: robert.ackermann@tu-berlin.de
R. Bruggemann
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
J. Waschnewski · R. Gnirss
Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Berlin, Germany
e-mail: jan.waschnewski@bwb.de; regina.gnirss@bwb.de
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
R. Bruggemann et al. (eds.), Measuring and Understanding Complex Phenomena,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59683-5_8
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in the Procurement of Civil Engineering
Services
Nora Pankow, Rainer Bruggemann, Jan Waschnewski, Regina Gnirss,
and Robert Ackermann
1 Introduction
In order to face global challenges, the UN passed a joint solution also known
as Agenda 2030. UN member states declare themselves ready to implement the
Agenda 2030 and its set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) on a national
level (UN 2015). Germany applied the ideas of the Agenda 2030 in the German
Sustainability Strategy and adjusted the SDGs from the global perspective to a
German perspective with specific indicators for the different goals (Bundesregierung
2016). The strategy also states that for an inclusion of a sustainable development
a further implementation into economy, academics and civil society is necessary
(Bundesregierung 2016).
The rising awareness for sustainability, increases the demand for companies
to include and monitor different objectives not just from governmental but also
from customer side (Jasch 2009; Koplin 2006). Consequently, mandatory indicators
must be expanded. The Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB) provide Berlin and parts of
the state Brandenburg with drinking water and are responsible for the wastewater
N. Pankow () · R. Ackermann
Institute of Environmental Science & Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin,
Germany
e-mail: robert.ackermann@tu-berlin.de
R. Bruggemann
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
J. Waschnewski · R. Gnirss
Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Berlin, Germany
e-mail: jan.waschnewski@bwb.de; regina.gnirss@bwb.de
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
R. Bruggemann et al. (eds.), Measuring and Understanding Complex Phenomena,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59683-5_8
105