Our assessments

Byggvarubedömningen is a non-profit organization owned by large constructors and property owners in Sweden.

Our mission

Enable wise choices of material for a good living environment. Enable good documentation of built in materials for future management. Stimulate producers of materials to improve their products from an environmental perspective. Stimulate the producers of materials to take social responsibility in their supply chain. Be a good and effective tool for documentation and tracking of materials, products and their content.

Chemical content and life-cycle aspect

Criteria
All BVBs assessments are based on criterias on chemical content and life cycle aspects. Download our criterias.

Assessments
In order to assess a product, BVB needs to know the content of the product. Please fill out our application form and appendix- supplier information and send it so bedomning@byggvarubedomningen.se

Please do also attach following documents if your product is:

  • An electronic device: RoHS-certificate in accordance with 2011/65/EU 
  • A chemical product: Safety Data Sheet in accordance with CLP
  • To be used indoors: Certificate or report for emissions of VOC's

An assessment takes 10 days. When the assessment is complete you will be able to see the preliminary result on our website and you will always have 14 days to income with complementary information or any comments (please contact bedomning@byggvarubedomningen.se). After these 14 days the assessment will be published in our database.