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European Testing Laboratories

I had become frustrated with the lack of a database of European testing laboratories so I created my own. I thought I would share some of the laboratories that are currently doing ASTM (or equivalent) testing in Europe: Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB), FRANCE University of Athens, GREECE ENEA, Italy Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, ITALY Uppsala University The Ångström Laboratory, SWEDEN SPF-HSR, SWITZERLAND TNO Construction and Environment, NETHERLANDS -- Through this research I have found that most of these laboratories use European standards for emissivity and reflectance measurements for example: CIE 130-1998 Practical Methods for Measurement of Reflectance and Transmittance OR ISO 9845-1. (Solar energy -- Reference solar spectral irradiance at the ground at different receiving conditions--Part 1:Direct normal and hemispherical solar irradiance for air mass 1,5 I would be interested if other projects in Europe have used other standards as equivalency for ASTM standards. Or if you could list other testing laboratories that would be greatly appreciated.

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Tue, 01/14/2014 - 08:59

The USGBC has just released (01.02.2014) an updated Global ACP guide, http://www.usgbc.org/resources/leed-reference-guide-green-building-design-and-construction-global-acps They list a couple more websites to look for testing labs. http://www.astm.org/ http://www.intertek.com/contact/ This could be helpful for projects outside the USA struggling with SRI values from manufacturers.

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