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The conference recordings can be accessed via the following links

  • From opening until lunch
  • From lunch until the end of the first day
  • Second day


Please find below the slides of presentations and inputs to the conference

  • The EU policy context and needs for action
    Lilian Busse, German Environment Agency (UBA)
  • Health impact assessment of indoor air quality
    Katleen de Brouwere, Vito

Stakeholder inputs on the need to declare ⁠VOC⁠ emissions from construction products

  • Pekka Vuorinen, CFCI
  • Birgit Müller, HTW Berlin
  • Andrea Klinge, ZRS Architekten
  • 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
  • BIM for healthy buildings: integrating VOC requirements for assessing IAQ
    Alessandro D‘Amico, University of Rome
  • Proposal for harmonised VOC emission classes
    François Maupetit, CSTB
  • Comments to the proposal for harmonised emission classes
    Martin Glöckner, Deutsche Bauchemie e.V.
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The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.

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