Environmental and health related criteria for buildings - ANEC

IBO - Environmental and Health related Criteria for Buildings
- interdiction of free storage of sand and debris,
- pavement of site roads,
- cleaning of tires in a tire washing plant,
- installation of dust shield nets during renovation, etc.
- appropriate information policy for neighbours and public in general
- contact point for complaints (on site),
- appointment of a responsible person
- appropriate waste management
- detailed waste sorting and instruction of workers
- reuse of excavation material on site – if possible
- erosion control and protection of the ecological biodiversity on site – where relevant
Energy and water consumption at the construction site is considered to be negligible in
comparison to the operation phase of the building and need not to be monitored as well as
material flows for construction activities (e.g. building site timber and its responsible
sourcing)
LCA-based approaches (using main indicators such as primary energy, GWP, ODP, POCP,
AP, NP, etc.) underemphasize construction site relevant impacts (on human health and local
environment). The effects of this phase disappear in comparison to long-lasting phases such
as operational or renovation phases.
Therefore, indicators (in form of detailed measures as defined above) are recommended to
detect the weaknesses of construction site activities and to optimise all relevant processes.
2.6. Chemicals in Building Materials and Indoor Air
Summary
Neither REACH nor the Construction Products Directive nor any other European Legislation
or Standardisation are sufficient instruments to guarantee the absence of hazardous
ingredients in or emissions from building materials into indoor air.
The existing building assessment systems go beyond legislation but cover the use of
chemicals in a very different manner 7 : in a range from the ban of certain chemicals or
categories of chemicals to strict limits for VOC-emissions of building materials.
The current harmonisation work on testing methods concerning the VOC-emissions from
building materials (CEN TC 351, ECA-IAQ) and the mandatory labelling in Germany (AgBB)
and France (AFFSET) will have a positive effect on the availability of tested products. While it
is still cumbersome to prescribe low-emitting products because of missing data, it will
become much easier in some years.
In order to allow different target values set e.g. in mandatory versus voluntary labelling
systems, a shared data handling and reporting tool as suggested by ECA-IAQ (2010) is of
importance.
7 as one can see in chapter 11.3, Table 31
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