Projects

The Nordic Timber Industry Associations in Finland, Norway and Sweden has recently agreed four common focus areas. One of the focus areas is “Wood interior products: Health impact and indoor air”. 

The overall goal is to address issues related to interior use of wood. To achieve this, it is important to create documentation and information regarding use of wood interior products on health and indoor climate through research and disseminate the information to the appropriate stake holders. Research has already been conducted among the Nordic research partners in collaboration with researchers in Austria and the UK (cf. Wood2New-project: www.wood2new.org) funded through the 7 Framework program. The project has given some promising results on interior use of wood on health and comfort. In particular, the results indicate that use of building materials form wood can improve indoor environments, but this effect is not yet properly quantified.  Therefore more documentation and plans for dissemination are needed. This is of special need, since prEN 16516 “Assessment of release of dangerous substances – Determination of emissions into indoor air” are in pipeline for implementation in the CEN-system.