Environmental and health related criteria for buildings - ANEC

IBO - Environmental and Health related Criteria for Buildings
a test chamber) rather than indicating the actual value. Then one could not use the
declaration for a voluntary scheme requiring a lower emission value (e.g. requiring a
threshold of e.g. 0.048 mg/m³ formaldehyde). A shared data handling and reporting tool as
suggested by ECA-IAQ (2010) can afford relief to that problem.
Miscellaneous
Measurements on building sites could be done on a random basis in order to keep costs low.
Craftsmen should be aware that their work might be assessed. In addition, preliminary test
procedures, to be used before harmonised European standards are available, should be
identified.
Requirements concerning dangerous substances in, and emissions from, building materials
should go as far as possible. In Austria good experiences have been made with the
combination of building assessment with product assessment (ecolabels, green public
procurement). Detailed criteria for building products can be left to a “product manager” who is
in charge of tendering and ordering proper materials. Building assessment systems are
limited to requirements for indoor air quality and/or to assessing the “products’ management”
or the ecolabelling process itself.
Another important step forward would be recording information about installed materials.
The EU Eco-Label draft suggests that a list has to be set up with detailed information on the
installed materials. If this list also contained information about the ingredients of materials it
would be of high importance that bidders were forced to provide this information that is hard
to obtain for planners or contracted co-workers in most cases.
Final Report 15 31 03 2011