Building material emissions and odour perception: perceived intensity, hedonic tone and reasonableness

Building product emissions may cause odour complaints in indoor environments. Therefore, building products and model rooms will be assessed in regard of their odour perception in dependence of each other and environmental parameters. The findings will contribute to a better understanding of odour effects in indoor air in relation to specific single products and composite materials as sources of odour-related substances. The perceived intensity, which is very time-consuming to determine as a trained panel is required, will be compared with the relatively easy-to-determine parameter reasonableness in order to simplify odour analysis and evaluation concepts.