TOP - Thermal insulation

This document specifies the general “design for recycling” guidelines for EPS raw materials. It provides guidance on the impact of specific design characteristics on the recyclability of the product in practice and recommended design options to ensure that the product is recyclable, including target values and performance ranges, where applicable. It also provides a definition of recyclable product and of design for recycling.
This document refers to EPS thermal insulation products but may be used for other EPS construction products where appropriate.
This document refers to the recycling processes of EPS insulation products. The sorting and collecting steps are not part of this document.
This document takes into account all currently known recycling processes that are suitable to enable the circular economy for insulation materials. Particular attention is paid to ensuring that the most energy-efficient processes are given preference, especially mechanical recycling.
For some of these processes, practical experience has been gained over many years, so a basic knowledge base for the development of a guideline is already available.
At the same time, it is important to also take into account future-oriented processes, for which at the moment little but increasing experience is available or which have so far only been implemented on a small scale.

This document specifies methods to determine the durability of bondings, prepared by means of adhesive materials (e.g. adhesive tapes and adhesive masses), for the establishment of airtight layers under climatic conditions representative for indoor environments based on test methods with and without ageing.
The methods provided in this document require at least 120 days for aging and are therefore not suitable for a short time evaluation nor can they be applied to in-field testing. This document excludes test methods for external weathering or UV exposure, even though this might occur during the construction phase.
The following typical applications are distinguished:
-   bonding of the overlap of flexible airtightness layers;
-   bonding of flexible airtightness layers to construction products and penetrations;
-   establishment of airtightness layers by means of sheet materials and adhesive tapes.
This document does not apply to test methods for:
-   pre-compressed sealing tapes and sealing profiles which will be mechanically secured;
-   butyl-based adhesive tapes or adhesive masses;
-   sheet joints of wood-based panels or gypsum plasterboards with adhesive masses or filler systems;
-   bondings of bitumen membranes or of bitumen membranes to construction products;
-   bonding of self-adhesive membranes;
-   adhesive masses from reels. Adhesive masses from reels are cured viscoelastic adhesive masses, which are used in the same field of application as adhesive masses.
The tack is not addressed. It does not allow any conclusion on the durability of a bonding.

This document specifies equipment and procedures for determining the tensile strength and elongation of rectangular and triaxial glass fibre meshes which are used for the reinforcement of the base coat in external thermal insulation composite kits with renders (ETIC kits).

This document provides explanation and justification to support the correct understanding and use of ISO 52016-3.

This document specifies common evaluation rules useful for the assessment and verification of constancy of performance of a thermal insulation product with harmonised technical specifications, product standards and any other assessment documents. Harmonised technical specifications, product standards and other assessment documents are called European product specifications in this document.
This document applies to factory made products for buildings, factory made products for building equipment and industrial installations, in situ products for buildings, in situ products for building equipment and industrial installations, to products for civil engineering applications, and to external thermal insulation composite kits.

This document specifies the steady-state data analysis methods to evaluate the data from ‘the aggregate heat loss test method’. These analysis methods enable the actual in situ aggregate heat loss (building heat transfer coefficient) to be estimated.
NOTE   The aggregate heat loss method is specified in prEN 17888-1:2022, Thermal performance of buildings - In situ testing of building test structures - Part 1: Data collection for aggregate heat loss test.

This document specifies a test method for the in situ testing of the thermal performance of building structures especially built for the purpose of the test.
This document also specifies the apparatus to be used and the measurement procedures to collect the data and the reporting format for the apparatus including the building test structure and the test conditions.
NOTE   The analysis of the data and the reporting format for the analysis are referred to in prEN 17888-2.
This document does not apply to:
-   existing buildings;
-   building structures allowing direct solar gains through glazing surfaces;
-   the determination of the thermal performance of a specific building product, material, component or element.

This document specifies a test method for the in situ measurement of the thermal performance of buildings, both newly built and existing.
This document specifies the data to be collected during and after the test.
NOTE   The analysis of the data and the reporting format for the analysis are referred to in prEN 17887-2:2022 Thermal performance of buildings - In situ testing of completed buildings - Part 2: Steady-state data analysis for aggregate heat loss test.
This document is applicable to domestic scale detached buildings and attached domestic scale buildings, such as semi-detached houses, terraced houses and apartments.

This document specifies the steady-state data analysis methods to evaluate the data from ‘the aggregate heat loss test’. These analysis methods enable the actual in situ aggregate heat loss (building heat transfer coefficient) to be estimated.
NOTE   The aggregate heat loss method is specified in prEN 17887-1:2022 Thermal performance of buildings - In-situ testing of completed buildings - Part 1: Data collection for aggregate heat loss test.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the coefficient of linear thermal expansion at sub-ambient temperatures (−196 °C to 25 °C), subject to the possible temperature limitation of the test specimens. It is not applicable to products which experience dimensional changes during the test due to the loss of hydration water or which undergo other phase changes.

This document describes a laboratory test method to determine the susceptibility of thermal insulation products used for construction against mould growth under specified climatic conditions.
The method is applicable to both factory-made products and in situ formed products. Factory-made products include panels, mats and rolls.
NOTE   In situ formed products are usually those that are delivered loose and installed by blowing-in, pouring, or spraying-on, eventually using water and/or binder, whether or not they are also treated using additives.
The test is carried out with one of the conditions described in Table 1.
This test method determines the susceptibility of a thermal insulation material to mould growth, but it does not determine the suitability for use in a given design (wall, roof, etc.).
This method does not predict the resistance of an insulation product to water damage.

This document provides the product category rules (PCR) for Type III environmental declarations (as in EN 15804:2012+A2:20191) for factory made and in situ thermal insulation products.
Complementary to EN 15804:2012+A2:20191, the PCR described in this document:
-   specify the declared unit to be used;
-   define the system boundaries for thermal insulation products;
-   specify/describe the default scenarios and rules for defining scenarios for certain life cycle information modules.
These PCR are intended to be used for cradle to gate, cradle to gate with options or cradle to grave assessment, provided the intention is properly stated in the system boundary description.

This document specifies procedures for the calculation of the energy needs for heating and cooling, internal temperatures and sensible and latent heat loads of a building according to the hourly calculation methodology in ISO 52016-1. Additions or modifications of the calculations are provided in this document if the building envelope contains one or more adaptive building envelope elements (building envelope elements with adaptive components that are either environmentally or actively controlled as a function of specific conditions). The adaptive building envelope element replaces the transparent building element in the calculation according to ISO 52016-1.
The three types of adaptive building envelope elements covered in this document are:
—     building envelope elements with dynamic solar shading;
—     building envelope elements with chromogenic glazing;
—     building envelope elements with an actively ventilated cavity.
Environmentally activated control is described for building envelope elements with chromogenic glazing, but can also occur for other types of adaptive building envelope elements. In that case the same approach applies as for environmentally activated chromogenic glazing.
This document is applicable to the assessment of the energy performance of buildings (EPB) (energy performance labels and certificates), including comparison between buildings and checking conformity with minimum energy performance criteria.
It is also applicable to assess the contribution of the adaptive building envelope element to the smart readiness of a building.
In addition, this document provides indicators for the impact of the adaptive building envelope element on the performance of the building compared to a reference building envelope element. It is applicable to buildings at the design stage, to new buildings after construction and to existing buildings in the use phase.
This document is not applicable to geometrically complex adaptive building envelope elements that can only be modelled as multiple coupled thermal zones.
NOTE            The background to the selection of adaptive building envelope elements is given in ISO/TR 52016-4.

This document specifies a test method for the determination of settlement of loose-fill insulation applied horizontally in ventilated attics. This test method measures the effects of humidity and temperature cycling.

This document specifies the model components to be used in a numerical hygrothermal simulation model for calculating the transient transfer of heat and moisture through building structures.
This document specifies a method to be used for validating a numeric hygrothermal simulation model claiming conformity with this document.

This document is applicable to factory-made reflective insulation (RI) products intended for use as thermal and acoustic insulation of buildings. The products are manufactured in the form of rolls or boards. They are made from low emissive film(s) and infrared semi-transparent material layer(s) or air cavities.
This document describes the methods and criteria for assessing the performance of factory-made reflective insulation products in relation to essential product characteristics and includes the procedures for assessment and verification of the constancy of performance.
Reflective insulation products require specific setup instruction(s) depending on their level of compressibility.
This document does not specify the required level of a given property to be achieved by a product to demonstrate fitness for purpose in a particular application. The levels required for a given application can be found in regulations or non-conflicting standards.
This document does not cover:
-   products intended to be used for the insulation of building equipment and industrial installations;
-   products made of mineral wool, polystyrene or polyurethane foams (not inclusive) faced with aluminium or metalized foil on one or both external surfaces (which are already covered by a corresponding harmonized European product standard);
-   membranes used as vapour control layer (VCL) or vapour-permeable roof or wall underlay (which are already covered by a specific harmonized European product standard).

This document specifies requirements and methodologies for infrared thermographic services for detection of heat, air and moisture irregularities in buildings that help users to specify and understand
a)       the extent of thermographic services required,
b)       the type and condition of equipment available for use,
c)        the qualifications of equipment operators, image analysts, and report authors and those making recommendations, and
d)       the reporting of results.
It provides guidance to understanding and utilizing the final results stemming from provision of the thermographic services.
This document is applicable to the general procedures for infrared thermographic methods as can be applied to residential, commercial, and institutional and special use buildings.

This document describes a set of procedures for using existing standardized CEN or ISO test and calculation methods to determine the thermal performance of reflective insulation products. This document supports and does not replace existing CEN or ISO test methods.
This document applies to any thermal insulation product that derives a proportion of its claimed thermal properties from the presence of one or more reflective or low emissivity surfaces together with any associated airspace(s). It does not replace the existing procedures for the determination of the thermal performance of products already covered by an existing harmonized product standard where the declared value of these products does not specifically include any claims attributable to the emissivity of the facing. It does not, and cannot, give an in-use or design value of thermal performance, but provides standardized information from which these can be determined.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the tensile strength of a product parallel to its faces. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.
This document can be used to determine whether the product has sufficient strength to withstand stresses during transportation and application.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the compression behaviour of specimens. It is applicable to thermal insulating products and can be used to determine the compressive stress in compressive creep tests and for applications in which insulation products are exposed only to short-term loads.
The method can be used for quality control purposes and can also be employed to obtain reference values from which design values can be calculated using safety factors.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the thickness of full‑size products. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.
This document provides the reference method. Other methods can be used (e.g. for quality control), provided a correlation has been established with this reference method; Annex B gives some examples of such methods.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the short-term water absorption of preformed pipe insulation by partial immersion in water. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.
NOTE      It is intended to simulate the water absorption caused by exposure to rain for 24 h during product installation.
This document has been prepared for products used to insulate building equipment and industrial installations, but it can also be applied to products used in other areas.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the thickness of thermal insulating products for impact sound insulation in floating-floor applications.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the maximum service temperature of flat insulation products. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.

This document defines physical quantities and other terms in the field of thermal insulation relating to heat transfer by radiation.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the coefficient of linear thermal expansion. It is applicable to thermal insulating products within the temperature range −196 °C to 850 °C, subject to the possible temperature limitation of the test specimens. It is not applicable to products which experience dimensional changes during the test due to the loss of hydration water or which undergo other phase changes.

This document specifies the characteristics and choice of measuring equipment and the procedure for determining the linear dimensions of test specimens that are taken from thermal insulating products. The procedures for measuring the dimensions of full-size products are specified in ISO 29465 and ISO 29466.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the deviation from flatness for full-size products. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the length and width of full‑size products. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the maximum service temperature for preformed pipe insulation. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the dimensions, squareness and linearity of preformed pipe insulation, supplied in one piece, half sections or segments. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.

This document specifies the equipment and procedure for determining the water vapour transmission properties in the steady state under specified test conditions for test specimens of preformed pipe insulation. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.
It is intended to be used for homogeneous materials (see NOTE below) and for products which can have integral skins or adhered facings of some different material.
NOTE      A material is considered to be homogeneous in terms of mass distribution if its density is approximately the same throughout, i.e. if the measured density values are close to its mean density.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the apparent overall density and the apparent core density under reference conditions. It is applicable to full-size thermal insulating products and test specimens of preformed pipe insulation.

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining trace quantities of the water-soluble chloride, fluoride, silicate and sodium ions in an aqueous extract of the product. It also describes a procedure for the determination of the pH of the aqueous extract. It is applicable to thermal insulating products.
NOTE      The determination of these parameters can be relevant for thermal insulating products intended for application to stainless austenitic steel surfaces. The presence of chloride, fluoride, silicate and sodium ions under certain conditions can influence the risk of stress corrosion cracking. See Annex B for further information on general use of this document.

This document specifies two procedures to check the performance of solar thermal collector fields. This document is applicable to glazed flat plate collectors, evacuated tube collectors and/or tracking, concentrating collectors used as collectors in fields.
The check can be done on the thermal power output of the collector field and also be on the daily yield of the collector field.
The document specifies for the two procedures how to compare a measured output with a calculated one.
The document applies for all sizes of collector fields.

This document gives rules for the calculation of heat-transfer-related properties of building equipment and industrial installations, predominantly under steady-state conditions. This document also gives a simplified approach for the calculation of thermal bridges.

This document defines basic terms relating to the work of ISO/TC 180. The committee covers standardization in the field of the measurement of solar radiation and solar energy utilization in space and water heating, cooling, industrial process heating and air conditioning. Consequently, the vocabulary within this document is focussed on definitions relating to those measurement and utilisation technologies.
Since the 1999 version of this document there has been considerable development in solar photovoltaic technologies and high temperature solar thermal technologies that use heat to produce electricity or to provide high temperatures for processes that require elevated temperatures. This standard has some definitions that are useful also for those technologies; however, there are other documents that cover vocabulary for these technologies in more detail.

This document is applicable to all types of fluid heating solar collectors. This document specifies performance requirements for fluid heating solar collectors with respect to durability, reliability, safety and thermal performance.
This document deals with the solar collector and not with assemblies. This document is not applicable to those devices in which a thermal storage unit is an integral part to such an extent that the collection process cannot be separated from the storage process for making the collector thermal performance measurements.

Ta dokument določa zahteve, povezane z uporabo tovarniško izdelanih toplotnoizolacijskih materialov
za stavbe po SIST EN 13162, SIST EN 13163, SIST EN 13164, SIST EN 13165, SIST EN 13166, SIST
EN 13167, SIST EN 13168, SIST EN 13169, SIST EN 13170 SIST EN 13171, SIST EN 16069, in za na
mestu vgradnje izdelane toplotnoizolacijske materiale za stavbe po SIST EN 14063-1, SIST EN 14064-
1, SIST EN 14315-1, SIST EN 14316-1, SIST EN 14317-1, SIST EN 14318-1, prav tako določa zahteve
evropskih ocenjevalnih dokumentov EAD 040729 -00-1201, EAD 040461-00-1201, EAD 040138-00-
1201, EAD 040138-01-1201, in EAD 040005-00-1201, EAD 040146-00-1201, EAD 040650-00-1201,
EAD 040773-00-1201 ter EAD 040777-00-1201 in dodeljuje področja uporabe toplotnoizolacijskih
materialov, označenih s kraticami.
Toplotnoizolacijski materiali se lahko uporabljajo za različne namene. Ta standard opredeljuje
minimalne zahteve za posamezna področja uporabe v gradbeništvu.
OPOMBA: Na ta način lahko načrtovalci in uporabniki toplotnoizolacijskih materialov izberejo ustrezne vrste uporabe.
Ta dokument ne ureja uporabe toplotnoizolacijskih materialov za tehnično stavbno opremo in tehnične
stavbne sisteme.
Ta dokument ne ureja uporabe toplotnoizolacijskih materialov, za katere ne velja ustrezen harmoniziran
evropski standard ali evropski ocenjevalni dokument (EAD).
Ta dokument ne ureja uporabe toplotnoizolacijskih materialov v zunanjih toplotnoizolacijskih
kompozitnih sistemih (ETICS).
V posameznih primerih lahko drugi predpisi nalagajo višje zahteve. Načrtovalci in investitorji lahko tudi
postavijo višje zahteve.

This document specifies requirements on durability, reliability and safety for factory made solar heating systems. The document also includes provisions for evaluation of conformity to these requirements (see Annex A). The concept of system families is included as well, in Annex C.
The requirements in this document apply to factory made solar systems as products. The installation of these systems including their integration with roofs or facades is not considered, but requirements are given for the documentation for the installer and the user to be delivered with the system (see also 4.6).
External auxiliary water heating devices that are placed in series with the factory made system are not considered to be part of the system. Cold water piping from the cold water grid to the system as well as piping from the system to an external auxiliary heater or to draw-off points is not considered to be part of the system. Piping between components of the factory made system is considered to be part of the system. Any integrated heat exchanger or piping for space heating option (see Introduction, last paragraph) is not considered to be part of the system.

This document specifies two alternative methods for determining hygroscopic sorption properties of porous building materials and products:
a) using desiccators and weighing cups (desiccator method);
b) using a climatic chamber (climatic chamber method).
The desiccator method is the reference method.
This document does not specify the method for sampling.
The methods specified in this document can be used to determine the moisture content of a sample in equilibrium with air at a specific temperature and humidity.

This European Standard specifies the equipment and procedure for determining the resistance to impact of design ETICS kits with renders.

This European Standard specifies the characteristics for factory made calcium silicate products with or without lamination or coating which are used for the thermal insulation of buildings.
Calcium silicate insulation material comprising hydrated calcium silicate, normally reinforced by incorporated fibres. The main crystal phases are Xonotlite, Tobermorite with or without Wollastonite.
The products are manufactured in the form of boards, segments and prefabricated ware.
The standard covers multi-layered CS products.
This European Standard describes product characteristics and includes procedures for testing, evaluation of conformity, marking and labelling.
This European Standard does not specify the required level or class of a given property that shall be achieved by a product to demonstrate fitness for purpose in a particular application. The levels required for a given application can be found in regulations and invitations to tender.
This European Standard is not valid for products with a declared thermal conductivity greater than 0,075 W/(mK) at 10 °C.
This European Standard does not cover aerated concrete, autoclaved aerated concrete, mineral foam insulating products and sand-lime bricks as well as in situ insulation products and products intended to be used for the insulation of the building equipment and industrial installations.

This document specifies characteristics of factory-made vacuum insulation panels (VIP) intended to be used for the thermal insulation of buildings.
This document is applicable for all types of factory-made vacuum insulation panels (VIP), independent of the core material (see 3.1.10) or type of envelope (see 3.1.11).
This document is applicable for factory-made vacuum insulation panels (VIP) with or without desiccants (see 3.1.12) and with and without evacuation valve (3.1.14).
The products covered by this document can be used in roofs, walls, ceilings and floors.
This document specifies procedures for assessment and verification of constancy of performance (AVCP) of characteristics of factory-made vacuum insulation panels (VIP).
This document does not cover products:
-   intended to be used for the thermal insulation of building equipment and industrial installations;
-   intended to be used for civil engineering works;
-   intended to be used as perimeter or foundation;
-   with a thermal resistance RD lower than 0,5 m2⋅K/W;
-   that contain getters (3.1.13);
-   that have protective layers (3.1.9).

This document specifies the equipment and procedures for determining the apparent overall density and the apparent core density under reference conditions. This document is applicable to full size thermal insulating products and test specimens. This document can also be applied to the individual layers of multi‑layered products.