Within the scope of the harmonization efforts with the European Union in our country, there are radical changes in many areas. One of these areas is the construction sector. In this context, new classifications and approaches adopted in the European Union countries regarding the fire resistance performances of building elements have been adapted to the legal regulations of our country. Within this framework, a significant change has been experienced in the field of fire safety in our building materials sector.
In fact, in developed countries there are serious legal regulations and local standards on fire safety measures for building materials. These principles aim to minimize fire risks. It also provides guidance on the conditions under which appropriate and effective measures can be provided to companies producing building materials. In fact, most of the legal regulations on fire safety measures of countries are related to building materials and building elements.
However, each country's evaluation of building materials and components within their own legal regulations and local standards has led to the emergence of different standards, classification methods and evaluation criteria for each country. Therefore, 89 / 106 / EEC Building Materials Directive has been published in order to regulate the different approaches emerging between the European Union countries and to ensure the free movement of building materials among the member countries. This directive provides a general approach to building materials and building elements.
This directive is one of the more than twenty product groups established within the framework of the new approach directives applied in the European Union countries. The Construction Products Directive contains six basic requirements. In order of importance, these requirements are as follows:
These include five sub-requirements for safety in case of fire. The first of these sub-requirements is that the load-bearing capacity of the built structure does not decrease for a certain period of time, ie fire resistance and waste resistance. Resistance performance or fire resistance performance in the European Union countries and in our country is an important issue in this respect and fire resistance tests performed in authorized laboratories aim to increase the fire resistance of building materials.
The classes for fire resistance performance of building materials are described in the decision 2000 / 2000 / EC published in 367. This classification is contained in the EN 13501-2, EN 13501-3 and EN 13501-4 standards issued by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).
In Turkey, these standards have been published by Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) under the following headings:
The following basic criteria are used to determine the strength performance of a building material against:
In our country, within the framework of harmonization studies, the Building Materials Regulation has been issued by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization in line with the Building Materials Regulation No. 305/2011 / EU published in the European Union countries. This regulation regulates the basic features of building materials, declarations of performance and the principles for CE marking on building materials. These tests are mainly applied to products such as fire doors, fire walls, metal doors, polystyrene doors, fire barriers, other doors, windows, insulation materials, building materials, heat insulation materials, industrial products, ornaments used in the building, accessories and plasters. is implemented.
Our company conducts fire resistance tests of all kinds of industrial products, cables and similar building materials and building elements in accordance with local and foreign legal regulations and related standards.