Building materials
Foresight tracks the rules that reach your building products, from formaldehyde to PFAS, and runs the projects that follow.
ProjectsConsultation tracking
- Agnieszka Duda
- Ewan Reid
- Joanna Pike
| Consultation | Consulting | Closes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECHA Proposed by Austria | 6 November 2026 Opened 7 September | Respond | |
| DOEE Washington, DC | 9 November 2026 Extended to the hearing | Tracking | |
| Defra GB | 10 November 2026 Draft legal text | Tracking | |
| ECHA Call for evidence | 18 November 2026 Opened 7 October | Tracking | |
| US EPA Regulatory agenda | 13 October 2026 Review ends December | Closed |
Dioctyltin oxide
Status: RespondReply by 6 November 2026
- Proposal
- Repr. 1B, may damage the unborn child
- Uses
- Catalyst in adhesives and sealants
- Opened
- 7 September 2026
DC consumer product VOCs
Status: TrackingComments close 9 November 2026
- Proposes
- Floor adhesives: VOC from 15% to 7%
- Bans
- No methylene chloride, PCE or TCE
- Hearing
- 9 November 2026, 5:30 pm
UK REACH registration
Status: TrackingResponses close 10 November 2026
- Proposes
- Less hazard data up front
- Also
- HSE can ask for more where needed
- Covers
- Substances imported after a DUIN
MDA and MOCA in articles
Status: TrackingEvidence due 18 November 2026
- Concerns
- Residues above 0.1% in articles
- Finds
- Risk not adequately controlled
- Next
- A restriction may be prepared
Composite wood formaldehyde
Status: ClosedClosed, review ends in December
- Reviews
- The 2016 formaldehyde standards
- Covers
- Panels and the goods made with them
- Asks
- Whether the rule is still needed
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Rules reach every step, from suppliers to floor fitters
One rule at each step of a typical building materials organisation, and what it means for you.
Suppliers
Recycled flexible PVC you buy for flooring may carry lead, which EU REACH has capped at 0.1% since May 2025.
Your sites
Where your saws cut boards containing hardwood, EU carcinogens law caps all wood dust in the air at 2 mg/m³.
Your products
Since July 2020, EU REACH has capped DEHP and three other phthalates at 0.1% combined in your vinyl flooring’s PVC.
Your markets
France’s VOC labelling decree makes your flooring and adhesives carry a class for their indoor emissions, from A+ to C.
Floor fitters
Fitters using your polyurethane adhesives with 0.1% diisocyanates or more need training under EU REACH, renewed every five years.
Projects for building materials
Each is scoped to your products, plants and markets, and Foresight checks every result against its source.
Keep watch
All 3 projectsUnderstand your exposure
All 7 projects- Portfolio impact assessmentWhich of your adhesives, sealants and coatings a new classification or restriction reaches, by product and market.
- Global legislation registerThe chemical laws that apply to your floors, panels and coatings in each market, what each requires and what comes next.
- Market entry requirementsWhat an adhesive or sealant needs before it sells in a new market, from VOC limits to labels.
- PFAS portfolio reviewWhich of your coatings, sealants and adhesives contain PFAS under each definition where you sell.
- Substitution screeningCandidate replacements for chlorinated paraffins, phthalates and other restricted substances, checked against the lists that apply.
Meet an obligation
All 9 projectsKeep documents current
All 4 projectsDescribe the work. Foresight runs it and checks it.
Every project runs the same way, whatever the regulation. Here Foresight answers a customer’s substance questionnaire from your own records, and asks your suppliers for the rest.
Illustration of one project. The request reads: Answer this customer’s substance questionnaire from our records, and ask suppliers for what’s missing. Foresight reads the customer’s 86 questions and replies: I’ll answer what I can from your formulations, ask suppliers for the rest, and check each answer against its source. It plans the work: Read the questionnaire, Match each question to your records, Ask suppliers for the rest, Draft each answer with its source. Your records answer 79 of 86 questions. Foresight asks 3 suppliers for the other 7. Foresight checks each answer against its source, such as a supplier’s declaration that no PFAS are intentionally added. The answers go into the customer’s own file, each with its source, ready for Priya Nair, Product Stewardship Manager, to send back. Foresight goes on monitoring the rules behind each answer.
Say what you need in plain words, and share what you already have.
Foresight sets the scope, plans the work and drafts each deliverable with the sources it rests on.
Foresight checks each answer against its source.
The work comes back ready to use, and Foresight keeps it current as the rules change.
Your data, kept secure
Your data is kept in your organisation’s own workspace, separate from every other customer’s. It is encrypted in transit and at rest, including nightly backups, and is not shared with model providers for training. Foresight runs regular penetration tests.
How Foresight protects your data
What building firms ask
Does Foresight cover construction product rules as well as chemical ones?
Yes. Alongside REACH, CLP and PFAS rules, Foresight watches the Construction Products Regulation, fire performance rules, new and withdrawn standards, and recalls in your markets. It scores each change for your products, most important first.
Can Foresight answer our customers’ substance questionnaires?
Yes. Foresight drafts the answers from your own records and your suppliers’ declarations, and checks each one against its source. Where a floor, membrane or fitting holds a Candidate List substance above 0.1%, Foresight also prepares the notification it needs.
Does Foresight cover our plants?
Yes. Foresight watches exposure limits for silica and other carcinogens, and the permits for what your plants emit. An exposure limit review checks the limits for formaldehyde, diisocyanates and wood dust at each plant.
What do you need from us?
A description of the work and the products it covers. Useful inputs include your product lists, the formulations or safety data sheets for your adhesives, sealants and coatings, your emission test reports, the markets you sell into and the supplier declarations you already hold. You also set how the work is judged, such as your own scoring scale.
Tell us the work you need done
Foresight talks through your products, plants and markets with you. You’ll see the scope and the price before the project starts.
