ASTM Int'l Creates Sustainability Technical Committee
September 9, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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ASTM International formed a technical committee on sustainability to focus on stimulation of research and the creation of standards related to sustainability - that which meets the needs of the present without compromising the future, according to ASTM International.
Preliminary standards development efforts will focus on terminology and general principles that are applicable to multiple industry sectors, as well as the development of sustainability standards for specific markets including building and construction, consumer products, hospitality, agriculture, finance and corporate management, healthcare, water management and others.
The committee will also assume coordination for ASTM standardization efforts on sustainability currently managed throughout other existing ASTM committees. These include the activities of Subcommittee E06.71 on Sustainability, which is part of ASTM Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings.
A newly formed E06.71 task group on Green Meetings and Events will pursue the development of standards and sustainable practices for application in the meetings, conventions and exhibitions industries.
Source: ASTM International.