Floor emissions test standards

GBR (1992a) Trade standard-Measurement of Chemical Emission ftom Flooring Materials, Approved by The Swedish Flooring Trades Association and The Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, 1992. 

Gustafsson H. and Jonsson B. (1993) Trade standards for testing chemical emission from building materials, Part 1 Measurements of Flooring Materials. Proceedings of Indoor Air 93, Helsinki, Finland, Vol.2, 437-442. 

GBR, Trade Standard (1992) Measurement of Chemical Emission from Flooring Materials. Swedish National Flooring Trade Association (GBR) and the Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Stockholm. 

Apart from the normally accepted textile products, heat and fire resistant textiles find use in engine insulation (e.g. ceramic structures around combustion chambers), reinforcements for composites (e.g. carbon fibre reinforcements for major structural elements), aramid honeycomb reinforcements for wall and floor structures, and fuselage acoustic and fire/heat insulation, each of which has its own fire performance requirements. Associated with all these tests and materials or composites are toxic fire gas and smoke requirements, and so the choice of fibre and textile structures will be influenced by the need to pass the minimum emission standards for gases including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen chloride and hydrogen cyanide. 

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