Healthy Building Material Mark (HB Mark)

Purpose

Chemical material emission of local building material producers or products is assessed and certified to encourage them to implement autonomous quality control and contribute to improved quality of products.

Application

Subjects

General materials for interior spaces (plywood, floors, wallpaper, wood, panels, etc), paint, adhesives, etc.

Certification Grades for Construction Materials

※ Refer to the certification screening criteria of environmentally-friendly building materials group standard operation regulations [Appendix 1].

Grade		General Materials, Paint, Putty	Adhesives	Sealant
Best	TVOC	Below 0.10	Below 0.10	Below 0.05
	5VOC	Below 0.03	Below 0.03	Below 0.02
	HCHO	Below 0.008	Below 0.008	Below 0.002
	CH3CHO	Below 0.008	Below 0.008	Below 0.002
Good	TVOC	0.10 ~ 0.20	0.10 ~ 0.30	0.05 ~ 0.20
	5VOC	Below 0.06	Below 0.09	Below 0.06
	HCHO	0.008～0.015	0.008～0.015	0.002～0.005
	CH3CHO	0.008～0.015	0.008～0.015	0.002～0.005
Fair	TVOC	0.20～0.40	0.30～0.60	0.20～1.5
	5VOC	Below 0.12	Below 0.18	Below 0.45
	HCHO	0.015 ~ 0.20	0.015 ~ 0.020	0.005 ~ 0.010
	CH3CHO	0.015 ~ 0.20	0.015 ~ 0.020	0.005 ~ 0.010

- 5VOC: The sum of benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, xylene and styrene

- At 5VOC, toluene should be less than 0.080 mg/㎥.h.

Best	Good	Fair

Assessment Method

Source: Korea Air Cleaning Association

Item		Description
General Materials (Wallpaper, Floors, Wood, Panels)	Point of Measurement	7th Day
	Number of Samples	3
	Comparison	Average of Results of 3 Samples
Paint, Adhesives	Point of Measurement	7th Day
	Number of Samples	3
	Comparison	Average of Results of 3 Samples

Eco-friendly Mark System

Eco-friendly Mark System

Eco-friendly Mark System awards eco-friendly mark to products that causes relatively less contamination or save resources in production and consumption to provide consumers with accurate environmental information regarding each product and encourage companies to develop and produce eco-friendly products that satisfy consumer preferences.
Initiated in Germany in 1979, this System has been successfully adopted by about 40 countries in the EU and Northern Europe and including Canada, USA, and Japan. Korea has been implementing it since April 1992.
Eco-friendly Mark System aims to provide accurate environmental resources to consumers so that companies and consumers can produce and consume eco-friendly products. Through this system consumers are encouraged to participate in environmental preservation activities and companies are encouraged to develop and produce eco-friendly products and technologies that satisfy consumers’ desire to purchase eco-friendly products for sustainable production and consumption.

Eco-friendly Mark Managing Institutions

Eco-friendly Mark System is operated by various forms of institutions, including governments (EU, Czech Republic), private organizations (USA, Sweden), and partnership of government and private organizations (Germany, Japan), according to the cultural, economic, and social circumstances of each country. In Korea, it is managed by the Ministry of Environment and KOECO.

Certification Criteria

Definitions

• “Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)”refer to liquid or organic compounds that constantly volatilize in air due to certain temperature and pressure conditions.
• “VOCs content”refers to the mass of volatile organic compounds in a unit of volume of paint measured in given conditions. These conditions refer to the value diluted and measured at maximum dilution rate in product manual.
  Note) Here, all organic compounds whose boiling point is below 250℃ are considered volatile organic compounds.
• “VOCs emissions”refer to the amount of volatile organic compounds emitted from a unit of area within a unit of time in given conditions.
  Note) Here, any material in between n-hexane and n-hexadecane in the chromatogram of Gas Chromatograph with mass analyzer is considered VOCs.

Adhesive Standards

Hazardous heavy metal standards

Adhesive Standards	Item	Lead (Pb)	Cadmium (Cd)	Mercury (Hg)	Hexavalent Chromium (Cr+6)
	Standard [mg/kg]	The sum of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg) and hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) contained in the product should be less than 1,000 mg/kg. However, lead (Pb) should be less than 600 mg/kg.

VOCs standard

Adhesive Standards	Item	VOCs	Toluene	Formaldehyde
	VOCS	Below 0.10	Below 0.080	Below 0.015

Architectural Putty Standards

Hazardous heavy metal standards

Adhesive Standards	Item	Lead (Pb)	Cadmium (Cd)	Mercury (Hg)	Hexavalent Chromium (Cr+6)
	Standard [mg/kg]	Lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), arsenic (As), antimony (Sb) and their compounds together with hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) compounds should not be used in the product. In addition, the sum of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg) and hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) contained in the product should be 0.1% (1,000 mg/kg) or less as a mass fraction. However, lead should not be more than 0.06% (600 mg/kg) as a mass fraction.

VOCs standard

Adhesive Standards	Item	Sorts	VOCs Content (g/L)
	VOCS	Water-based	Below 40
		Oil-based	Below 50