Acronyms and abbreviations
| Alu | Aluminium |
| AP | Acidification potential |
| BFH | Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products Hamburg |
| BUWAL | Federal Bureau for Environment, Forest and Landscape |
| CO | Carbon monoxide |
| CO2 | Carbon dioxide |
| COD | Chemical oxygen demand |
| EDC | 1.2 dichloroethane |
| EMPA | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Testing and Research |
| EP | Eutrophication potential |
| EPS-Method | Environment Priority Strategy in Product Design |
| eq. | Equivalent |
| GaBi | Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung/Software program |
| GJ | Giga joule |
| GWP | Global warming potential |
| HC | Hydrogen carbon compounds |
| IKP | Institute for Synthetics Testing, University of Stuttgart |
| k-value | Heat transition coefficient |
| LCA | Life cycle assessment |
| LCI | Life cycle inventory |
| MDF | Medium-density fibreboard |
| OHt | Ordinariat für Holztechnologie (Department for Wood Technology) |
| OSB | Oriented strand board |
| POCP | Photochemical ozone creation potential |
| PVAc | Polyvinyl acetate |
| PVC | Polyvinyl chloride |
| SO2 | Sulphur dioxide |
| VCM | Vinyl chloride monomer |
| VOC | Volatile organic compounds |