Standards for building materials ensure quality, safety, and reliability in construction projects worldwide. They help professionals meet design specifications and ensure sustainable, high-performing buildings.

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Embracing net zero: a crucial step towards a sustainable future
Achieving net-zero carbon emissions is not just an environmental imperative; it also presents significant opportunities for organizations of all sizes.
“Worm’s eye view of a bamboo forest clearly showing off the plants’ jointed stems.

By Clare Naden on

Counting the ways with bamboo

With more than ten thousand different uses, bamboo is versatile, renewable, clean, green and abundant. What’s more, it holds the key to many climate change and sustainable development solutions. What’s not to love? ISO’s expert committee for bamboo has just published its first International Standard to support the industry’s growth, contributing to a better world for all.

View of city square in Shanghai, China.

By Elizabeth Gasiorowski-Denis on

Building a sustainable future with ISO 21930

With urban populations worldwide swelling, there’s an urgent need to calculate the sustainable performance of the buildings that we live and work in. But the variety and complexity of methods available can seem overwhelming. This is where ISO 21930:2017 comes into play. 

Top standards

Steel structures — Execution of structural steelwork
Part 2: Steels

Building materials and products — Hygrothermal properties — Tabulated design values and procedures for determining declared and design thermal values

Testing of concrete
Part 12: Determination of the carbonation resistance of concrete — Accelerated carbonation method

Cement — Test methods
Part 1: Analysis by wet chemistry

Cement — Test methods — Determination of setting time and soundness

Cement — Test methods — Determination of strength