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Standards Activities
Researchers at the NRC-IRC participate in the activities of a number of international standards committees that directly or indirectly focus on SBE initiatives:
ISO Activities
TC 59 Building construction
ISO/TC59/SC14 "Building and Constructed Assets: Service Life Planning"
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WG 1: Service life prediction procedures
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WG 2: Performance audits and reviews
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WG 3: Data requirements
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WG 4: Maintenance and life cycle costing
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WG 5: Terminology
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WG 6: Life cycle assessment
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WG 7: Condition assessment and feed-back of relevant durability data from constructed assets
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WG 8: General principles
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WG 9: Inclusion of requirements of service life assessment and service life declaration in product standards
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WG 10: Functionality requirements/serviceability
TC 59 Building construction
ISO/TC59/SC17 Sustainability in building construction
Scope: "Standardisation in the field of sustainability of the built environment; the environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainability are appropriate to include in the standard."
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WG 1: General principles and terminology
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WG 2: Sustainability indicators
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WG 3: Environmental declaration of products
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WG 4: Environmental performance of buildings
TC 207 Environmental management
ISO/TC207/SC5 Life cycle assessment
Scope: Standardization in the field of life cycle assessment as a tool for environmental management of product and service systems. It encompasses the assessment of impacts on the environment from the extraction of raw materials to the final disposal of waste.
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Have or are in the process of preparing: ISO 14040, 14041, 14042, 14043, 14044, 14047, 14048, 14049
ASTM Activities
E06 Performance of Buildings
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E06.92.14 US TAG to ISO TC 59/SC14 On Design Life
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E06.92.17 ISO/TC59/SC17 - US TAG
E06.71 on Sustainability
Active Standards:
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E1991-98 Standard Guide for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Building Materials/Products
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E2114-01 Standard Terminology for Sustainability Relative to the Performance of Buildings
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E2129-03 Standard Practice for Data Collection for Sustainability Assessment of Building Products
Work items:
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WK5566 Standard Guide for General Principles of Sustainability Relative to Buildings
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WK574 Standard Practice for Data Collection for Sustainability Assessment of Building Products
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WK3161 Standard Guide for the Use of Data for Building Product Sustainability Assessment
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WK4235 Standard Guide for Selection, Installation, and Maintenance of Plants for Green Roofs
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WK4236 Standard Practice for Determination of Dead Load s and Live Loads f or Green Roof Systems
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WK4237 Standard Test Method for Water and Media Retention of Synthetic Drain Boards for Green Roofs
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WK4238 Standard Test Method for Maximum Substrate Density for Dead Load Analysis of Green Roofs
