Norsk organisation får fuktsäkerhetspris

För fjärde gången har Fuktsäkerhetspriset (Moisture Safety Prize) från FuktCentrum vid Lunds tekniska högskola delats ut. Denna gång gick priset till forskningsinstitutet SINTEF Byggforsk och dess vetenskapliga ledare Berit Time samt seniorforskaren Sivert Uvsløkk.

Priset delades ut vid konferensen Building Physics in the Nordic Countries i Lund, Sverige.

Juryns motivering lyder (på engelska)

For more than 50 years of successful dissemination of knowledge and information on moisture control and durability, and to make it accessible and useful to the building trade.

This year´s winner is an independent research organization that published the first Building Research Design Guides in 1958, and today the series has become a national web-based knowledge system for the whole building trade in Norway.

SINTEF Building and Infrastructure (Byggforsk), have together with the building trade for more than 50 years made knowledge accessible and usable by the Building Research Design Guides (Byggforskserien). The web-based quality standard is today a national knowledge tools for the building trade.

The SINTEF Building Research Design Guides consist of about 760 design guides. It is a complete source to technical solutions for buildings, and the three sub-series (Architectural Planning, Building Details and Building Management and Maintenance) present experience and solutions from both research and practice. The series is the most used planning and design tool amongst Norwegian architects and engineers and the design guides are continuously being updated to comply with the building code and experience-based knowledge.

The purpose of Building Research Design Guides is to facilitate experience and results from practice and research in such a way that they can rapidly be useful. Instructions, solutions and recommendations are facilitating the work and promote good quality in design, construction and management of buildings. Publications from NBI have over the years ensured that good, moisture-proof solutions have been chosen for numerous projects. Many instructions have their main focus on moisture-proof solutions, but there is also a large amount of manuals that solely deals with different moisture topics.

The Building Research Design Guides comply with the performance-based requirements in the Norwegian building code, and are an important reference to “pre-accepted” solutions in the technical regulations. The NBI series has approximately 16,000 subscribers and has a solid position in the Norwegian market, with virtually no competitors in terms of information on best practices for good and moisture-proof construction.

We find it very important that SINTEF Building and Infrastructure (Byggforsk) disseminate national and international findings and experiences to the building trade for the purpose of preventing future building defects.

It is our hope that this prize will stimulate to continue the work for better building quality and avoiding of moisture problems."

Om priset:

Juryn bakom priset består av representanter från Fuktcentrum vid Lunds tekniska högskola förstärkt med ytterligare adjungerade nordiska akademiker.

Priset delas ut vart tredje år till person eller personer som påverkat byggprocessen i projekt inom Norden på ett sådant sätt att fuktsäkerhet i projektering, byggande eller förvaltning har säkrats även med hänsyn till energihushållning och miljöaspekter. En god funktion under drift ska ha visats.