Standards and regulations: Generalities 2008 Technical Advisory Service.
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Standards
Before, each country had his own standardization institute and published its standards
Some international standards (ISO) are also published
Standards
Country Institute Standard Logo
Germany DINwww.din.de DIN
Belgium IBN – BINwww.ibn.be NBN
Spain AENORwww.aenor.es
UNE
France AFNORwww.afnor.fr NF
UK BSIwww.bsi.org.uk
BS
Italy UNIwww.uni.it UNI
Netherlands NNIwww.nni.nl NEN
Standards
Country Institute Standard Logo
Poland PKNwww.pkl.pl PN
Russia GOSTwww.gost.ru GOST
Czech Republic CSNIwww.csni.cz CSN
USA ASTMwww.astm.com
ANSIwww.ansi.org
ASTM
ANSI
International Standardization Organization
ISOwww.iso.org ISO
In order to uniformize the european market, and also arrive to the CE Marking, the CEN is now publishing european standards «EN»
Standards
These standards replace and cancel the eventual national standards, handling about the same topic
Standards
Institute Standard Logo
European Comittee of Standardization
CENwww.cenorm.be
EN
European Organization for the Technical Agreement
EOTAwww.eota.be
ETAG
Standards
The CEN publishes different sort of standards : description of products test methods calculations methods harmonized standards for the CE Marking
BUT these standards do not give indications regarding the choice and the use of different products, this stays a national competence
Standards
For the glass, TC 129 «Glass in building» is the only qualified
About 90 standards are publised or being edited
Standards
Example: Thermal Insulation The standard EN 1279 describes insulating glazings
(composition, tolerances, test …). The standard EN 12898 describes the method of
measurement of the emissivity of a coating. The standard EN 673 describes the method of
calculation of the U Value of a glazing. The standard EN ISO 10077 describes the method of
calculation of the U Value of a window
The standards or national regulations determine the U-values to be respected in building
CE Marking
Represents the fact that the product correspond to the DPC requirements, as mentioned in the different harmonized standards or ETAG’s
Indicates that the product has been correctly evaluated to be compatible with the CDP procedure
See training «CE Marking»
The certificates
In order to certify the quality and/or the level of performance of its products, AGC Flat Glass Europe has different sort of certificates: Declaration of conformity Test reports Certificate of product conformity Certification
The certificates
A declaration of conformity (to a standard, a law document, a law …) is a document written by the manufacturer who declares under his responsability that it is conform to …
AGC has used and still uses these documents if nothing else is needed
Example: GVB declares that his Top N is conform to EN 1096
The certificates
A test report is a document which gives the results of a test from a document (standard). The test can in that case, only be a part of a standard, a law … The laboratory which does this testy is often independent of the producer
Example: INV tells that STRATOPHONE 33.2 is 1B1 according to EN 12600
Example: INV tells that LT of TOP N, measured according to EN 410 is about 86 %
The certificates
A certificate of product conformity (to a standard, a law, a directive …) is a document where a laboratory keep a record if the tested product is accurate to the complete standard (to a law, a directive …). Generally, several test, calculations have been made
Example: INV tells that the TOP N of GVB is conformed to the EN 1096This means for example, for pyrolithic coatings, spectrometric measures and resistance tests, to condensation, acid attacks, fog and abrasion
The certificates
A certification given by a standard organization is a document where the organism keep a record of a product (or the range of all the products of a plant or a producer) is/are accurate to a regulation certification. This one is composed by test in laboratory, controls in plants and regular evaluation tests
Example: BCCA gives a certification for the STRATOPHONE range of ATHUS and TEPLICE. The tests have been made by INV and SSV, controls by SECO according to the internal rules of BCCA. The certificate is 3 years valid and the certified values are indicated
The certificates
The certifications are usually composed by a name and a « logo », which allow an easy identification, for example: Belgium: ATG France: CEKAL, Avis Technique Netherlands: KOMO…
The certificates
The certificates (but not the conformity declaration) are given by acknowledged laboratories, for example: Germany: IFT, Melrichstadt, Ulm Belgium: CSTC, InV, ERM France: CSTB, CEBTP, CNPP Italy: SSV Netherlands: TNO Czech Republic: Ikatès…
CSTC
The certificates
Most of the certificates are « scanned » and available on www.YourGlass.com (see, «Certificates» and «Quality»)
National regulations and legislations
National application documents of european standards are published in most of countries; they can specifiy: the choice of fire resistant glazing the acoustic insulation criterias the thermal insulation criterias the choice of safety glazings (protection against injuries, break-in …) the details for setting of glazings …
National regulations and legislations
The application documents can be : Legislative (law, decree): they are lawful and
then obligatory Standards Others (non lawful)