I wanted to quickly report on the ISO meetings in London which started Monday and runs for the next four days (until Thursday). We have 50 countries represented with 66 people in attendance.
ISO runs a very elaborate agenda with many formal items so I will not attempt to cover all the many points of the first day in this report - 32 agenda items - but the highlight are:
Report and discussion of how ISO and the European Standards group are working together to accomplish simplifying the standards and codes across Europe and the rest of the world.
Report and discussion of Working Group 4 - Thin Tiles. Both Italy and China are highly involved in the making of this new category of tile products with many different characteristics that must be discussed and resolved for successful installations.
Report and discussion of Working Group 6 - Installation Methods. During discussions it seems to be the consensus that it will be difficult to resolve the many differences of methods of installation within the many different labor groups and methods of the member countries. It was also discussed that, for the most part, labor does not cross over borders in the same way that products do so this group may not be necessary. Each country seems to be satisfied that within their countries the labor groups are working well for the situations they face with international products being installed differently. We may still work to find an effective method of communicating different labor methods that work for the many countries so that other countries can possibly utilize those same installation methods.
More to follow tomorrow.
Questions??? Please email questions to me at Srausch@usg.com
Steve
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