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Environmental and Health Provisions for Building Products -

Identification and evaluation of VOC emissions and odour exposure


The building product directive of the European Union defines the term ‘building product’ as “a commercial product that is manufactured with the purpose of remaining in the building over a long period of time”. Standard and certification authorities have the task of achieving a high level of health and environmental protection in technical specifications for building products based on the principles of precaution and prevention - in addition to other goals of the building product guideline.

Series
Texte | 21/2007
Number of pages
381
Year of publication
Author(s)
Dr.rer.nat.Wolfgang Horn, Dr.-Ing. Oliver Jann, Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Kasche, Dipl.-Ing. Frank Bitter, Prof.Dr.-Ing. Dirk Müller, Dr.-Ing. Birgit Müller
Language
English
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Project No. (FKZ)
202 62 320
Publisher
Umweltbundesamt
File size
7288 KB
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0,00 €
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 building material  disturbance of the environment  health  VOC-Emission  aromatic pollution