Environmental and health related criteria for buildings - ANEC
Environmental and health related criteria for buildings - ANEC
Environmental and health related criteria for buildings - ANEC
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IBO - <strong>Environmental</strong> <strong>and</strong> Health <strong>related</strong> Criteria <strong>for</strong> Buildings<br />
- Timber <strong>and</strong> derived timber products:<br />
- - Timber Panels<br />
- - Solid Wood, coated<br />
- - Solid Wood, untreated<br />
- Floor Coverings:<br />
- - Resilient Floor Coverings<br />
- - Textile Floor Coverings<br />
- - Wood Flooring<br />
- - Laminated Wood Flooring<br />
- Chemicals<br />
- Paints<br />
- Varnishes<br />
- Adhesives, especially flooring adhesives<br />
- Sealings<br />
The <strong>criteria</strong> used originate from Austrian Green Public Procurement programs (harmonized<br />
st<strong>and</strong>ards of “ÖkoKauf Wien” <strong>and</strong> “baubook oeg”) <strong>and</strong> are published on<br />
http://www.baubook.at/oeg/ (together with products fulfilling these <strong>criteria</strong>) <strong>and</strong> integrated in<br />
the tendering software ABK.<br />
In the Austrian building assessment system “klima:aktiv haus“ <strong>for</strong> service <strong>buildings</strong> the<br />
„products’ management“ itself is awarded with credits (max 50 points out of 1000)<br />
AgBB (Germany)<br />
A German task <strong>for</strong>ce of public <strong>health</strong> authorities, the AgBB, developed an approach <strong>for</strong><br />
implementing <strong>health</strong> <strong>related</strong> requirements (i.e. VOC emissions) in the German registration<br />
procedure <strong>for</strong> construction products used <strong>for</strong> indoor application. The procedure has been<br />
notified (Principles of <strong>health</strong> assessment of construction products in indoor environments,<br />
Notification No. 167/2009/D, http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tris/public_info/). Germany<br />
supports a class system <strong>for</strong> indoor relevant products based on the AgBB scheme in the<br />
European discussion concerning the declaration in the CE-mark (KIRCHNER, 2010).<br />
The requirements comprise limitations to emissions of a sample stored in a test chamber <strong>for</strong><br />
3 days <strong>and</strong> 28 days. The 3 day test is representative of a building renovation case with early<br />
re-occupancy <strong>and</strong> prohibits excessively high initial VOC emissions <strong>and</strong> the presence of<br />
carcinogens. The 28 day test is representative of long-term emissions (EUROFINS, 2006).<br />
The AgBB scheme considers individual substances as well as a sum parameter <strong>for</strong> VOC with<br />
retention range from C6 to C16 (TVOC), <strong>and</strong> semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC),<br />
respectively. The TVOC <strong>and</strong> TSVOC limits can be extracted from Table .<br />
For a large number of VOC found in indoor air a list of so-called LCI values (Lowest<br />
Concentration of Interest) have been derived from maximum permitted workplace<br />
concentrations (Maximale Arbeitsplatz-Konzentrationen – MAK values). The MAK values<br />
belong to the most comprehensive evaluation system <strong>for</strong> specific VOC. However, under<br />
typical conditions much higher substance concentrations are generally encountered in<br />
workplaces than in living spaces. On the other h<strong>and</strong>, much shorter exposure times occur at<br />
Final Report 141 31 03 2011