Sultan Çetin and Sun Ah Hwang from TU Delft have published a paper in the journal “Developments in the Built Environment” on the integration of Digital Product Passports (DPPs) into Digital Building Logbooks (DBLs), exploring the socio-technical challenges and enabling factors for their effective integration across Europe.

A key finding is that the main barriers to integrating DPPs and DBLs are not technical, but rather procedural and organisational. The study highlights the importance of regulation, standardisation, interoperability and simplicity as key enablers for creating scalable and effective DPP-DBL integration, while also addressing challenges such as unclear responsibilities, weak incentives, low awareness and digital fatigue.