Community safety
• subjecting additional fire doors from the same batch and others to BS 476-22 fire resistance tests
• methodical deconstruction and comprehensive visual inspections of a series of doors
• analysis of materials used in the manufacture of this batch of fire doors
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investigation of the manufacturer’s supply records
SBD dual certification
National police crime prevention initiative Secured by Design (SBD) works with developers, local authority planners, manufacturers and the fire service to promote security in the built environment. Only a few days after the Grenfell tragedy,
the government told local authorities and housing associations that doors deemed to be fire resisting at the time of construction of high rise blocks would be satisfactory. However, it instructed them to replace any ‘non-fire-resisting doors, such as non-fire-resisting uPVC doors, immediately with doorsets that are third-party certified as providing at least 30 minutes fire resistance’. The following month, SBD told its member companies and recognised certification
At the end of 2017, the DHF launched a national campaign to ask the government to enforce the use of complete doorsets in fire compartmentation, to help prevent the spread of fires in multi occupancy buildings such as tower blocks and office buildings. DHF is calling for complete doorsets on individual flat entrance doors, and those used in escape corridors and stairways, to be manufactured, installed and maintained through UKAS accredited third party certification.
Grenfell Technical Group
SBD is represented on the Grenfell Technical Group, which was set up in March 2018 to help understand what went wrong at
authorities that doors that are described as fire doors, or where fire performance is declared or implied, are required to have third party certification for both security and fire performance to achieve its Police Preferred Specification accreditation. As a result, SBD accredited products need to be covered for both fire and security within a single Technical Schedule.
DHF campaign
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