Clearview National October 2014 - Issue 155 | Page 54

Fire Safety & Security

BRE ANNOUNCES NEXT FIRE
DOOR TRAINING COURSES
The next Fire Door Education Programme
training courses for professionals involved
in the inspection, installation and repair
of fire doors have been announced.
»»They are being run by BRE,
which provides expertise on every aspect of the
built environment and the Door & Hardware
Federation (DHF), which represents the
leading manufacturers and installers of
industrial and commercial doors, shutters and
building hardware.
The programme comprises four training
modules: fire door inspection, the installation
and maintenance of timber fire doors, steel
hinged fire doors, and fire shutters. The one
day courses are taking place in October and
November at BRE Watford and BRE Scotland
(East Kilbride).
The next fire door inspection courses are
taking place on 2 October at BRE Watford

and 18 November
at BRE Scotland.
The timber fire
door installation,
repair and maintenance
course is on 8 October
at BRE Scotland. The metal fire
door installation, repair and maintenance
course is on 14 October at BRE Watford
and 19 November at BRE Scotland. The
Roller shutter installation, repair and
maintenance course is on 12 November at
BRE Watford.
Book at: http://www.bre.co.uk/event-list.
jsp?t=3.

New CE requirements for fire
doors – are you compliant?
John Warburton, recently appointed to the role of Sector Manager for Windows
and Doors Certification at BRE Global takes a brief look at the new requirements
for CE marking for fire door sets which are soon to becomes mandatory.
Anyone who manufactures or
installations fire door sets will be
affected by the publication of EN
16034, the harmonised European
standard that will be made
mandatory in the coming months.
Since July 2013, all door
sets must be CE marked with
manufacturers publishing a
declaration of performance (DOP)
under the hEN 14351 standard.
This covers over 20 characteristics,
but manufacturers need only
declare values for those required
for the country in which they are
to be installed.

Door sets manufactured and
installed in the UK, only have a
few of the characteristics that are
essential; thermal performance,
dangerous substances, safety
devices and ability to release in the
case of emergency exit devices.
As soon as there is a legal
requirement to CE mark fire door
sets to EN 16034 which covers
fire resistance and smoke control
characteristics, manufacturers
will be required by regulation
(Construction Products Regulation
(CPR)) to CE mark their
products.

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The main function of fire doors
in the passive fire protection
of buildings is to maintain fire
separation. In addition, it is
recommended that fire doors
and shutters are installed and
maintained by third party approved
competent contractors.
LPS 1056 is the BRE
Certification Scheme for the Test
and Evaluation Requirements for
LPCB Approval and Listing of Fire
Doorsets, Lift Landing Doors and
Shutters. LPS 1056 looks at the
fire integrity of the product and
its door/shutter furniture and calls

up cyclic testing and impact testing
and deals in detail with assessment
procedures for outsized doors/
shutters that cannot be fire
tested.
As with all LPCB approved
fire safety and security products,
they are listed in the Red Book
and available online at www.
redbooklive.com The Red Book
is also available free iTunes and
Google Play. The Red Book has
become the de-facto directory
of approved and trusted fire and
security products and services and
is widely used across the world.