It is important to establish an evaluation method for odors emitted from building products for good perceived air quality. In Japan, there is no normative evaluation method, so we aimed to establish a quantitative and normative evaluation method on odor emissions from building products. Otherwise, ISO draft on evaluating building material odor has been proposed and is under investigation. In the ISO draft, perceived odor intensity and acceptability are suggested factors for the evaluation standard. In particular, perceived odor intensity is a parameter used to assess intensity based on a comparable scale. As smelling capability varies from person to person, the use of comparative sources, in which all panel members evaluate the sample air in comparison to the same references, reduces the influence of subjective perception of the test result. In this work, we measured perceived odor intensity, odor intensity and odor concentration of 5 kinds of building material. From these results, we investigated correlation among them.
