TY - CONF A1 - Schroeder, H. A1 - Müller, Urs A1 - Ziegert, C. ED - Hwang, H. ED - Kim, S. ED - Guillaud, H. ED - Gandreau, D. T1 - Building codes and standards in earth building - current situation in Germany N2 - Today, building is a complicated commercial process characterised by legalised agreements between all participants. For commercial building projects, all materials and constructions have to conform to building standards and regulations. Material properties must be reproducible in standardised test procedures. This also applies for the control of the quality of production of earth building materials and constructions. Building conservation is a part of this process. Generally, national building standards have to reflect the current situation of building materials / construction systems of that country for which they have been developed. T2 - TerrAsia 2011 - International conference on earthen architecture in Asia CY - Mokpo, Korea DA - 11.10.2011 KW - Standards KW - Germany KW - International KW - DIN KW - Lehmbau KW - Normen KW - Bauprodukte PY - 2011 SN - 978-89-92760-63-8 SP - 239 EP - 246 AN - OPUS4-25451 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schroeder, H. A1 - Ziegert, C. A1 - Fontana, Patrick ED - Lourenco, P.B. ED - Haseltine, B.A. ED - Vasconcelos, G. T1 - The new German standards for earth blocks and earth masonry mortar N2 - In August 2013, the German National Institute for Standardization DIN published three national standards for industrially-produced earth building materials without the use of chemical stabilizers: DIN 18945 Earth blocks – definitions, building materials, requirements, test procedures DIN 18946 Earth masonry mortars – definitions, building materials, requirements, test procedures DIN 18947 Earth plaster mortars – definitions, building materials, requirements, test procedures The development of these standards was initiated by the Dachverband Lehm e.V. (DVL), the German umbrella organisation for building with earth. These standards are in accordance with the requirements of the EU Regulation No. 305/2011 which came into force in Germany on 1 July 2013. These basic requirements introduce provisions relating not only to the safety of buildings and other construction works but also to health, durability, energy economy, protection of the environment and other important aspects in the public interest. The basic requirements are defined by essential characteristics expressed by levels or classes, or in a description. The relevant essential characteristics define the performance of the construction product. The DIN 18945, 46 and 47 outline unified test procedures describing the relevant essential characteristics of the earth building products as well as systems for assessing and verifying the constancy of their performance. The relevant systems of verification are determined by a national Technical Assessment Body (TAB), which in Germany is the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik DIBt. T2 - 9th IMC - International Masonry Conference CY - Guimaraes, Portugal DA - 07.07.2014 KW - DIN norms KW - Germany KW - Earth blocks KW - Earth masonry mortar KW - Earth plaster mortar KW - Standards KW - Earth block masonry KW - Earth mortar PY - 2014 SN - 978-972-8692-85-8 SP - Paper ID 682, 1 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-31140 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -