Requirement for UK Building Regulation Fire Safety

Reference Standards:

• Building Regulations 2000, Approved Document B “Fire Safety”
• BS 476-20：Fire Tests on Building materials and structures – Part 20. Method of test for determination of the fire resistance of elements of construction (General principles)
• BS 476-21: Fire test on building materials and structures-Part 21: Method for Determination of the fire resistance of load bearing elements of construction.
• BS 476-22: Fire Tests on Building materials and structures – Part 22.Methods for determination of the fire resistance of non-loadbearing elements of construction
• BS 476-23：Fire Tests on Building Materials and Structures Part 23 Methods for Determination of the Contribution of Components to the Fire Resistance of a Structure.
• BS 2782: Method 508A / BS 2782-0:2011: Methods of Testing plastic – Method 508A: Rate of burning, laboratory method

Our Approach

There are 2 parts in our approach of training, Theory and Practice, our practical experts are skilled to connect them.

Theoretical Part:

• Interpretation of terminology
• Specific Interpretation of Product Standard, Technical Specification, Test Method, and Regulation and Policy
• Discussions on principles and methodologies
• Effective picture or video to aid understanding

Practical Part:

• Guidance for the application of Product Standard and Technical Specification
• Sharing and analysis of existing cases
• Necessary visiting and operation in our laboratory
• Practical analysis and answers based on customer’s questions

Why Choose Us: 

• The Research team of CASfire headed by experts from related fields of the Chinese Academy of Sciences includes members from Fujian Key Laboratory of Fire Retardant Materials and State Key Laboratory of Fire Science. They have been chairing and participating in several provincial and municipal state-level scientific research projects
• The CASfire Fire Testing Center is CMA(China Inspection Body and Laboratory Mandatory Approval) accredited and managed according to ISO/IEC 17025:2017” General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories” (CNAS-CL01:2008)
• Based on the scientific research platform of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CASfire Material Analysis Center has tens of advanced analytical and testing instruments worth more than USD 10 million. And our experts will also provide with you professional advice and suggestion basing on analysis.
• We will do detailed technical survey of pre-training
• We have more than 5 000 cases study for your reference
• We are good at Improvement-based theory and Practice
• You will be invited to visit the laboratory and test operation if necessary, to intuitively understand the test method
• It is a Open question-and-answer sessions

• Date: Jun.5, 2020
• Location: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China
• Language: Chinese or English
• Duration: 1 day