What is this PD CEN/TR 16798-16 about?
PD CEN/TR 16798-16 is the sixteenth part of multiple series that contains information to support the correct understanding, use and national adaptation of the EN 16798-15.
PD CEN/TR 16798-16 specifies each EPB standard accompanied by an informative technical report, like this one, where all informative content is collected, to ensure a clear separation between normative and informative contents (see CEN/TS 16629 [2]):
- To avoid flooding and confusing the actual normative part with informative content,
- To reduce the page count of the actual standard, and
- To facilitate understanding of the set of EPB standards.
Who is this PD CEN/TR 16798-16 for?
PD CEN/TR 16798-16 on Interpretation of the requirements in EN 16798-15 useful for:
- Construction industry 
- Civil engineer 
- Agencies or Installer of EPB standards 
- Manufacturers of Ventilation for buildings 
Why should you use this PD CEN/TR 16798-16?
There is a risk that the purpose and limitations of the EPB standards will be misunderstood unless the background and context to their contents – and the thinking behind them – is explained in some detail to readers of the standards. Consequently, various types of informative content are recorded and made available for users to properly understand, apply and nationally or regionally implement the EPB standards.
PD CEN/TR 16798-16 exemplifies a set of EPB standards, Technical Reports and supporting tools to users for facilitating the necessary overall consistency and coherence, in terminology, approach, input/output relations and formats, for the whole set of EPB-standards
One of the main purposes of PD CEN/TR 16798-16 is the revision of the EPB-standards to enable those laws and regulations to directly refer to the EPB-standards and make compliance with them compulsory. This requires that the set of EPB-standards consists of a systematic, clear, comprehensive and unambiguous set of energy performance procedures
