This Safety Report provides practical guidance to governments, regulatory bodies, other relevant competent authorities, and building and construction material industries on setting up arrangements for regulatory control relevant to building and construction materials that give rise to radiation exposures at any step in their life cycle. These steps would include raw material production, manufacturing, supply and end use. It also considers the responsibilities of the suppliers of raw, waste or recycled materials for incorporation into building or construction materials, and it covers verification programmes for building and construction materials prior to their use as well as in completed construction projects.

• 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1. Background
  • 1.2. Objective
  • 1.3. Scope
  • 1.4. Structure
• 2. IDENTIFICATION OF BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS CONTAINING RADIONUCLIDES
  • 2.1. Identification of building and construction materials containing radionuclides
  • 2.2. National survey of natural radioactivity in building and construction materials
  • 2.3. Artificial radionuclides in building and construction materials
  • 2.4. Reuse of cleared material in building and construction materials
  • 2.5. Radionuclides in materials of existing buildings
  • 2.6. Providing information on radionuclides in building and construction materials
• 3. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT AND AUTHORITIES
  • 3.1. Legal framework for the control of radionuclides in building and construction materials
  • 3.2. Graded approach to the control of radionuclides in building and construction materials
  • 3.3. Regulatory framework for the control of radionuclides in building and construction materials
    • 3.3.1. Regulations and guidance on building and construction materials containing radionuclides
    • 3.3.2. Demonstration of compliance with requirements for building and construction materials containing radionuclides
    • 3.3.3. Establishment of a screening tool for building and construction materials containing radionuclides
    • 3.3.4. Non-compliance of building and construction materials containing radionuclides
  • 3.4. Regulatory requirements for qualified in-house laboratories and external measurement service providers
  • 3.5. Measurement methods for building and construction materials containing radionuclides
    • 3.5.1. Determination of the activity concentration of radionuclides in building and construction materials
    • 3.5.2. Determination of gamma dose rates in buildings containing radionuclides
• 4. DEMONSTRATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR RADIONUCLIDES IN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
  • 4.1. Manufacturers of building and construction materials
  • 4.2. Suppliers of building and construction materials
  • 4.3. End users of building and construction materials
  • 4.4. Demonstration of compliance with requirements for building and construction materials containing radionuclides
• REFERENCES
• Annex I EXAMPLES OF DOSE CALCULATION AND MODELLING
• Annex II EXAMPLES OF MEASUREMENT METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF RADIOACTIVITY IN AND DOSE RATES FROM BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
• Annex III INFORMATION ABOUT BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS ENTERING THE MARKET
• Annex IV EXAMPLES OF NATIONAL REGULATIONS ON RADIONUCLIDES IN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
• CONTRIBUTORS TO DRAFTING AND REVIEW