On Wednesday 6th of October the TOTEM tool will not be available for a short period in the morning (8-10h).
We apologize for this inconvenience!

With kind regards,
the TOTEM team

A TOTEM update was carried out on the 9th of June. The most important changes are:   

• Totem newsletter subscription: users can now register for the TOTEM newsletter to stay informed about relevant TOTEM information such as updates, trainings, stakehol...

Les trois Régions organisent, à destination des concepteurs de projets (architectes, bureaux d’étude,…), des séances de formations à l’utilisation de l’outil TOTEM. 
Au cours de ces formation...

In order to help the Belgian construction sector to objectify and reduce the environmental impacts of buildings, the three Regions have developed the TOTEM tool.   
The three regions would like to invite representatives of the construction sector to p...

A TOTEM update was carried out on February 19 2021. The most important changes are: 

• Additional EPD’s (Environmental Product Declarations):  An overview of the added EPDs since the last update can be found here. 
• User profile information: The lis...

Une prime pour l’utilisation de TOTEM en Région de Bruxelles Capitale depuis le 1/1/2021 !

Depuis le 1er janvier 2021, une nouvelle prime est proposée pour encourager les bruxellois à réduire les impacts environnemen...

Since the last TOTEM update, a number of mandatory fields have been added to the user profile, i.e. "profession" and "do you already have a license for an LCA database?". Already registered users also have to complete these additional data.  

Adding o...

A TOTEM update was carried out on June 30. The most important changes are: 

• Some additional mandatory fields were added in the registration form. Users now have to fill in their profession, as well as indicate if they have a license for an LCA databas...

An update of TOTEM was carried out on 25 May 2020. The main changes are as follows:

• Improvement of the layout of the TOTEM report in PDF format.
• Addition of a small calculation module in the detailed results of a building, specifically designed for BRE...

On April 25th, the TOTEM tool will be offline in the morning (from 8 am on) due to an update.

We apologize for this inconvenience!

With kind regards,
the TOTEM team

This year, EPDs (Environmental Product Declarations) will be added to the TOTEM library. For more information, click here.

A TOTEM update was carried out on April 14 2020. The most important changes are:

• Improvement of the comparison function for elements and buildings: you can now add multiple variants of buildings / elements (max. 3) to the comparison at the same time a...

The TOTEM team is very pleased to announce that from March 2020 on, TOTEM will be available for BREEAM certification. It concerns the standards "BREEAM International New Construction 2013 and 2016" and "BREEAM International Refurbishment and Fit Out ...

This guide contains a lot of information on the evaluation method and the TOTEM tool.

The guide can be downloaded in Dutch and in French.

A TOTEM update was carried out on December 20 2019. The most important changes are:

• In addition to the transmission losses, the ventilation losses can be included in the energy-related impact at building level. To calculate these losses, the user can ...

A TOTEM update was carried out on October 25th 2019. The most important changes are:

-          Within the category “ground facilities” 15 new predefined elements and about 30 new materials were added

-          32 new materials and 12 new ...

A TOTEM update was carried out on September 17. The most important changes are:

• From now on it is possible to indicate manually which elements are part of the building envelope and thus for which elements energy losses are taken into account in the en...

A TOTEM update was carried out on July 10. With this update some bugs were fixed and changes were made to the user interface and the import and export functionalities:

• From now on, not only the total environmental cost of a building or an element is d...

On June 21th 2019, an important update was made in TOTEM. This update concerns adaptations on several levels: 

In the data used in TOTEM: in addition to various changes to the existing data, new materials and elements have been added to the library: 

• 5...

On March 1st 2019, an important update was made in TOTEM. This update concerns adaptations on several levels: 

• in the data used in TOTEM: on the level of materials, elements and impact assessment scenarios;  

• in the TOTEM tool: on the level of the back...

Deux dates ont été ajoutées en janvier : le 24 janvier (NL) et le 29 janvier (FR), inscriptions ci-dessous !

Pour aider le secteur belge de la construction à objectiver et réduire l'impact environnemental des bâ...

On Tuesday 16th of October at 12 noon, updates will be done in TOTEM (bug End Of Live-scenario Wood/Paint & U value calculation & Renovation (EOL-phase)). Please do not use the application at that time. We do apologize in advance for this inconvenien...

Due to a temporary problem, the calculation of the U-value for elements composed of a multiple layer containing 3 or more materials is not correct !

For the moment, it is recommended to limit the composition of a multiple layer to a maximum of 2 mater...

Since last 29/06, some corrections have been made on data’s related to materials based on CLT (Cross Laminated Timber). If you had modelled an element including this material before 29/06, to obtain the corrected data’s see the procedure ...

On 27th June, updates will be done in TOTEM (bug End Of Live-scenario CLT  and U value visualisation and calculation). The tool will be offline for a while. We do apologize in advance for this inconvenience.

kind regards,

the TOTEM-team

• Pourquoi TOTEM ?

• Présentation des principes de l’Analyse de Cycle de Vie d’un bâtiment
  Intervenants : Lisa Wastiels / Laetitia Delem (CSTC)

• Présentation de TOTEM : méthodologie, fonctionnalités et dém...

Ce 23 avril, une nouvelle version de l'outil a été déployée, intégrant une série de modifications et de corrections.

Le plus grand changement concerne les ouvertures (intérieures et extérieures)....

Les inscriptions pour les 3 séminaires TOTEM sont ouvertes!

Mardi 17 avril à 13h30 à Gent (à proximité de la gare Gent Sint-Pieters) Cloturé
Jeudi 26 avril à 13h30 à Namur (Jambes) COMPLET
Jeudi 3...

Totem : un nouvel outil pour améliorer les performances environnementales des bâtiments

Le ministre wallon de l’Economie, de l’Innovation et du Numérique, Pierre-Yves Jeholet, la ministre
flamande Joke Schauvliege et J...