# Building Biology SBM-2024 evaluation guidelines

> Precautionary assessment bands used by building biologists to grade bedroom measurements from 'no anomaly' to 'extreme anomaly'; not exposure limits and not law.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/standards/building-biology-sbm-2024
- Collection: Standards & frameworks
- Record id: `standards:sbm-2024`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/standards/building-biology-sbm-2024
- Also known as: SBM-2015, building biology guideline values

## Key values

- **Organization:** Institut für Baubiologie + Nachhaltigkeit (IBN)
- **Edition:** 2024
- **Jurisdiction:** DE, international
- **Frequency range:** DC – 300 GHz
- **Status of values:** Precautionary: proposed by a professional or advocacy body, not adopted by any regulator

## Scope

Sleeping areas. Values are graded bands (no / weak / strong / extreme anomaly) intended to guide remediation, orders of magnitude below regulatory limits.

## Sources

- `sbm-2024` Institut für Baubiologie + Nachhaltigkeit (IBN) (2024). *Building Biology Evaluation Guidelines for Sleeping Areas (SBM-2024)*. https://buildingbiology.com/site/downloads/SBM-2024_EVALUATION_GUIDELINES_EN.pdf — ngo, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

This record is reference data, not medical or legal advice. Regulatory limits, scientific guidelines and precautionary values are labelled separately and answer different questions.