The National Science Fair

Indoor Climate

“Experts from several European countries established European working group ‘EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF INDOOR CLIMATE’ (ECIC) policies to improve the indoor climate in buildings develop before the background, a European standard for more consumer protection, to introduce building quality and product transparency, experts from several European Nations came together on September 20 in Sinsheim-Hilsbach and have the international working group of INDOOR CLIMATE” (indoor air) founded. Together they want to develop guidelines for the indoor climate with the aim to adopt a resolution of the participating country representatives. First decisions have been taken in the past week. The ECIC working group composed of construction experts, experts, and representatives from the industry. The newly established working group is committed to the task, to explore the indoor climate in buildings, as well as to introduce transparent construction products used in the construction to the consumer and sees itself as a neutral and independent working group for consumer education and product transparency.

Unlike many older buildings, the chemical, physical and biological environment changed in airtight created new buildings and energetically renovated old buildings sustainably. As a result of the bad breath occur then often health problems for days. This can expressed in numerous mucous membrane diseases, allergies, intestinal and skin diseases, rheumatic and neurological complaints and novel auto-immune diseases. While physicians and experts mostly blame an unstable psyche or a defective Genetics for this type of disease, environmental factors are involved only rarely in the holistic approach. The European Convention of indoor climate (ECIC) “However, these questions arises exactly.” What indoor climate factors in the field of biological, chemical or physical influence on how the health of people and how can you exclude hazards or existing Positive design interiors? What field and assessments of pollution in and around the buildings are protected and which are based on assumptions? Director of the Institute for quality management and environment hygiene in Weikersheim, this development is also a consequence of currently existing political decisions Weinisch according to Karl-Heinz.