An inter-laboratory comparison study of the ANSI/BIFMA standard test method M7.1 for furniture

Jensen Zhang; Mark Mason; Alfred Hodgson; Beverly Guo; Ken Krebs; Alpha Barry; Ben Peters

An inter-laboratory comparison study of the ANSI/BIFMA standard test method M7.1 for furniture

Jensen Zhang, Mark Mason, Alfred Hodgson, Beverly Guo, Ken Krebs, Alpha Barry, Ben Peters

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

Five laboratories using five different test chambers participated in the study to quantify within- and between-laboratory variability in the measurement of emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from new commercial furniture test items following ANSI/BIFMA M7.1. Test items were wood framed chairs produced as a single lot. Within- and between-lab relative standard deviations were determined for the sampling and analysis procedure, measured emission factors at days 3 and 7, and predicted emission factors at day 14 by power-law model. Results obtained were comparable to the lower bound of uncertainty ranges in previous round-robin studies of VOC emissions for individual dry materials. The study also identified areas for improvement of the test method.

Original language	English (US)
State	Published - 2009
Event	9th International Healthy Buildings Conference and Exhibition, HB 2009 - Syracuse, NY, United States Duration: Sep 13 2009 → Sep 17 2009

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Other	9th International Healthy Buildings Conference and Exhibition, HB 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Syracuse, NY
Period	9/13/09 → 9/17/09

Keywords

Emission test method
IAQ
Office furniture
Volatile organic compound (VOC)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Building and Construction

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