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What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

Digital building logbooks (DBLs) have been included in the European Commission’s policy framework for building decarbonisation for several years now. Their role and perception have positively evolved in the European policy landscape. However, where do we stand in terms of their usage and policy relevance? What is their position in the current policy framework in comparison with similar information tools? Are we exploiting their full potential?

These questions and more are addressed in the brand-new policy factsheet that Demo-BLog partners, BPIE (Building Performance Institute Europe), have just released. This project’s deliverable presents and thoroughly analyses the role of DBLs since their creation, reviews their evolution within the different EU policy initiatives around buildings and presents a series of recommendations to the European Commission to unleash their full potential.

In the words of the authors, BPIE researchers Carolina Koronen and Sriraj Gokarakonda say: