DAY 1: 20. APRIL 2021
10:00 OPENING THE CONFERENCE
Welcome
Axel Vorwerk, German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
10:20 The policy context - Setting the scene
The EU policy context and needs for action
Lilian Busse, German Environment Agency (UBA)
Health impact assessment of indoor environment quality
Kathleen de Brouwere, Vito
11:00 Stakeholder inputs on the need to declare VOC emissions from construction products
Michael Neaves, ECOS
Pekka Vuorinen, Finnish Association of Construction Product Industries
Birgit Müller, HTW Berlin
Andrea Klinge, ZRS Architekten
Alexander Röder, Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V.
Discussion
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00 VOC in indoor air − Health hazards, determination and assessment
Combination effects of chemicals–the importance of summing up risk quotients
Andreas Kortenkamp, Brunel University London
Harmonised test standard: EN 16516 – common approach for all building products for interiors
Olaf Wilke, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
Progress with the establishment of harmonised health-based reference values, EU LCIs
Derrick Crump, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Consulting Limited & Associate
Current data on the occurrence of VOCs in indoor air and emissions from building products: What do we know and what should we know?
Heidrun Hofman, Bremer Umweltinstitut
Discussion
15:00 CLOSING THE DAY
