Healthy Building Technology Programme

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Healthy Building Technology Programme

• Programme duration 1998-2002
• Programme volume 24 million euros,annually 4.5
  million euros
• 120 projects until May 2002
• 55 research projects
• 65 product development projects
• Total volume 22 million euros, 50 from Tekes
• Participants Companies and associations fromthe
  real estate and construction industry,research
  institutes, authorities and Tekes
• Programme Manager Mr. Markku Rantama,The
  Finnish Real Estate Federation
• Further informationwww.tekes.fi/english/programm
  es/healthybuilding

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Priority areas

• Services and business operations concepts
• Ventilation and building services
• Moisture
• Emissions from construction materials

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Priority areas
Number of projects and percentage of funding
Moisture, 43 projects, 35
Ventilation andbuilding services, 24 projects,
31
Emissions, 11 projects, 5
General, 12 projects, 4
Services andbusiness concepts, 30 projects, 25
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Services and business operations concepts

• Tools for the client
• Market potential studies
• Cleaning and indoor air
• Productivity and quality of indoor air
• Criteria of healthy buildings
• Indoor air quality management systems
• Healthy building brands

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Ventilation and building services

• Clean and functioning ventilation
• Air cleaning, development of filtration
• Reliability of filters
• Improving the ventilation of existingblocks of
  flats
• Indoor air and energy economy of schools
• Air inlets, supply air windows

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Moisture

• Safe and effective eliminating methods ofharmful
  particles, microbes etc. of buildingsdamaged by
  moisture and mould
• Moisture behaviour of structures and materials
• Management of moisture in the constructionprocess
  
• High-tech monitoring of moisture
• New solutions for bathrooms etc.
• Refurbishing methods for bathrooms etc.
• Leakage-proof water systems
• Methods for inspection and repair of damages
• Solutions for packing and protecting productsand
  materials during transportation and on site

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Emissions from construction materials

• Labelling and classification
• Emissions connected withmoisture damages
• Ammonia, health effectsand repair
• Quicksilver and PCB in theFinnish building stock

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Current situation

• Theme of the year 2002Knowledge transferred to
  products
• Productive Office 2005
• Implementing Clean Ventilation
• Piloting the Criteria for Healthy Building
• Working conditions of the constructionsite
  (Weather protection, cleanliness,moisture,
  ventilation etc.)
• Diagnosis and measurement methodsand equipment
• 2002, the Year of Indoor Air, nationalinformation
  campaign

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