People are spend­ing more and more time indoors. For this reas­on, the qual­ity of indoor air and the level of emis­sions giv­en off by mater­i­als installed on walls and floors are becom­ing increas­ingly import­ant.

It is true that facades today are increas­ingly well insu­lated and win­dow joints her­met­ic­ally sealed. But the vent­il­a­tion habits of the build­ings’ res­id­ents have not been adap­ted to the tech­nic­al pro­gress and the increas­ingly tight build­ing shell.

Emis­sions, par­tic­u­larly those from freshly applied paints and coat­ings, adhes­ives, seal­ants and oth­er build­ing mater­i­als, can cause the con­cen­tra­tion of harm­ful volat­ile organ­ic com­pounds (VOCs) in the air to rise alarm­ingly even days after the mater­i­als were installed.

For this reas­on, renowned Ger­man floor­ing adhes­ives man­u­fac­tur­ers decided to devel­op install­a­tion adhes­ives low in emis­sions and to aggress­ively pro­mote them in the mar­ket. They set up GEV, the “Asso­ci­ation for Emis­sion-con­trolled Install­a­tion Mater­i­als e.V.” to estab­lish a bind­ing ground­work for this endeav­our.

Recog­niz­ing the needs to provide reli­able guid­ance to con­sumers, pro­fes­sion­al crafts­men, plan­ners, archi­tects and retail­ers regard­ing the low-emis­sion sys­tems and tech­no­lo­gies avail­able on the mar­ket, EMICODE® was estab­lished, a registered, impar­tial clas­si­fic­a­tion sys­tem for floor­ing install­a­tion mater­i­als, and set up GEV as the licens­ing and super­vis­ory body for this labelling scheme.

In order to meet the mar­ket’s demand for test­ing addi­tion­al product types, GEV was renamed in 2007 and is now called “Gemeinsch­aft Emis­sion­skon­trol­lierte Ver­legew­erkstoffe, Kleb­stoffe und Bauprodukte e.V.” (Asso­ci­ation for the Con­trol of Emis­sions in Products for Floor­ing Install­a­tion, Adhes­ives and Build­ing Mater­i­als).

Today, GEV has evolved into an inter­na­tion­ally recog­nized insti­tu­tion which, thanks to its mar­ket-mon­it­or­ing func­tion, makes a key con­tri­bu­tion to con­sumer and envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion as well as occu­pa­tion­al health and safety.

People are spend­ing more and more time indoors. For this reas­on, the qual­ity of indoor air and the level of emis­sions giv­en off by mater­i­als installed on walls and floors are becom­ing increas­ingly import­ant.

It is true that facades today are increas­ingly well insu­lated and win­dow joints her­met­ic­ally sealed. But the vent­il­a­tion habits of the build­ings’ res­id­ents have not been adap­ted to the tech­nic­al pro­gress and the increas­ingly tight build­ing shell.

Emis­sions, par­tic­u­larly those from freshly applied paints and coat­ings, adhes­ives, seal­ants and oth­er build­ing mater­i­als, can cause the con­cen­tra­tion of harm­ful volat­ile organ­ic com­pounds (VOCs) in the air to rise alarm­ingly even days after the mater­i­als were installed.

For this reas­on, renowned Ger­man floor­ing adhes­ives man­u­fac­tur­ers decided to devel­op install­a­tion adhes­ives low in emis­sions and to aggress­ively pro­mote them in the mar­ket. They set up GEV, the “Asso­ci­ation for Emis­sion-con­trolled Install­a­tion Mater­i­als e.V.” to estab­lish a bind­ing ground­work for this endeav­our.

In order to meet the mar­ket’s demand for test­ing addi­tion­al product types, GEV was renamed in 2007 and is now called “Gemeinsch­aft Emis­sion­skon­trol­lierte Ver­legew­erkstoffe, Kleb­stoffe und Bauprodukte e.V.” (Asso­ci­ation for the Con­trol of Emis­sions in Products for Floor­ing Install­a­tion, Adhes­ives and Build­ing Mater­i­als).

Today, GEV has evolved into an inter­na­tion­ally recog­nized insti­tu­tion which, thanks to its mar­ket-mon­it­or­ing func­tion, makes a key con­tri­bu­tion to con­sumer and envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion as well as occu­pa­tion­al health and safety.

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