Free VOC webinars – final dates – register now

Following the success of our webinars on French VOC regulation, there will be a series of webinars on VOC related issues in June 2012, in three languages.

Eurofins Product Testing A/S will explain principles and details of rating schemes for low emitting products in regulations, ecolabels, and programs for sustainable building certification, in a series of webinars – a combination of listening and watching a live presentation on a website, followed by a chat period. 3 languages will be available: English, French, and German.

Duration: 20-30 Minutes presentation, then 10-20 minutes chat with the presenter.

For program, dates and registration please see -
- in English: www.eurofins.com/voc-seminars
- in German: www.eurofins.com/voc-seminare
- in French: www.eurofins.com/cov-seminaires

Several seminars with in-person participation and discussion are planned later, after summer 2012, in several countries.
Those dates will be announced, and more information will be made available, on our VOC seminars page.

LEED 2012 – 4th public comment now open

LEED^®, the US originated rating system for sustainable buildings, is requested by more and more building planners in the USA and in Europe and at the Gulf.

LEED 2012 fourth round of public comments now is open during May 11-28. Revised version is expected very late in May 2012. Membership ballot is planned for June.

Key information can be found here:

• LEED 2012 development
• Credit: Use of interior products with low VOC emissions
• Credit: Disclosure and avoidance of Chemicals of concern

Update on French VOC classes

Products sold in France need to be labelled with their VOC emissions class.

Now the French ministry published

• a non-exhaustive list of covered and non-covered products (in French language), and
• precisions and instructions for testing doors and windows for their VOC emissions classes (in French language).

Both documents are linked from a specific webpage in French language, published and updated by French ministry.

For more details, please see our information on French VOC emissions label in English, in French, and in German.

 

Webinars on VOC in May and June 2012

Eurofins Product Testing A/S offers webinars on VOC issues in May and June 2012 free of costs.

For program, dates and registration please see -

- in English:
www.eurofins.com/voc-seminars
- in German:
www.eurofins.com/voc-seminare
- in French:
www.eurofins.com/cov-seminaires

LEED 2012 public comment period is extended

LEED 2012 third round of public commenting was extended until 27 March 2012 at 9 am ET.

The specifications on low VOC emissions experienced some significant changes. You can see a link on the webpage www.eurofins.com/leed-2012, and some comments on the credit dealing with low emitting interiors.

The final draft will be balloted in the period 01 – 30 June, 2012.

If you want to participate in that ballot then you should act as follows:

• You must be US GBC member until at least June 30, 2012, for being eligible to vote.
  
• Opt-in to the Consensus Body: April 2 – May 1, 2012, at www.usgbc.org/leed2012.
• Vote for LEED 2012: June 1 – 30, 2012.

LEED 2012 now out for public comment

LEED 2012 now is out for third round of public comments in the period 01 – 20 March 2012.

The specifications on low VOC emissions experienced some significant changes that will be available on 01 March 2012. You can see a link on the webpage www.eurofins.com/leed-2012, and some comments on the credit dealing with low emitting interiors.

The final draft will be balloted in the period 01 – 30 June, 2012.

If you want to participate in that ballot then you should act as follows:

• You must be US GBC member until at least June 30, 2012, for being eligible to vote.
  
• Opt-in to the Consensus Body: April 2 – May 1, 2012, at www.usgbc.org/leed2012.
• Vote for LEED 2012: June 1 – 30, 2012.

VOC Newsletter published today

Today a new VOC Newsletter was published by Eurofins, containing News on LEED 2012, CE marking, certified products, and VOC seminars and webinars. Please click on these links for English, French and German version.