A harmonised European standard for "fire resistant glass" has not been published to date. There is only a section called "Safety in fire – fire resistance" in the corresponding harmonised standards for glass in building *, such as tempered glass, laminated glass and laminated safety glass, coated glass, etc.
Vetrotech Saint-Gobain declares this safety in case of fire.
However, it is always the complete building components, i.e.glass and frame etc. that have to be tested and classified as per EN 13501-part 2.
*Remark: This standard is still in preparation,but will be published and effective soon.
For the application „Safety in case of fire – Fire resistance“, the corresponding valid harmonised product standard for each product family has to be applied for the cassification, i.e. EN 12543, prEN 14449, prEN 14179, etc. as well as the standards EN 357 and EN 13501:
EN 357: This standard has the title " Glass in building - Fire resistant glazed elements with transparent and translucent glass products - fire resistance classification ".
The standard is published - valid and mandatory for the following countries, i.e. must have the status of a national standard: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, the Czech. Rebublic and the United Kingdom. |
In the standard, the relevant terms for classification are defined in detail (see below). According to standard 357, a fire resistant glazing is a building component with one or more transparent or translucent glass products, with fixing and sealing materials and all individual components tested and classified in fire tests.
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EN 13501 Parts 1 - 5 : This standard has the title „Fire classification of construction products and building elements “. However, a glass can be classified only as part of a complete building element (i.e glass WITH frame, sealing material etc.) based on a fire test as per EN 1363/1364*. The "classification" follows the standard EN 13501 part 2 . |
* Remark: EN 1363 and EN 1364 describe the fire tests
