The Eurocodes and Construction Products
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The mission of the Joint Research Centre is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies. As a service of the European Commission, the JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the Union. Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests, whether private or national. THE EUROCODES AND B3 CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS In this series: Booklets B1: The Eurocodes: Implementation and use B2: The role of EN 1990: the key head Eurocode B3: The Eurocodes and construction products B4: The Eurocodes: Supporting EU policies and increasing competitiveness B5: The Eurocodes: Use outside EU B6: The Eurocodes and cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean area Leaflets L1: The Eurocodes: What are they? L2: The Eurocodes: Getting prepared L3: The Eurocodes: Increasing competitiveness L4: The Eurocodes: Opportunity to innovate DG Enterprise and Industry 2010 Joint Research Centre 1. THE EUROCODES 1.1. The Eurocodes suite The Eurocodes are a set of European Standards (EN) for the design of buildings and other civil engineering works and construction products. This booklet was produced by the JRC in the framework of the Administrative Arrangement between the Enterprise and Industry Directorate General (DG ENTR) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) The EN Eurocodes regarding support to the implementation, harmonization and further development The Eurocodes cover in a comprehensive manner the basis of design, of the Eurocodes actions on structures, the principal construction materials, all major fields of structural engineering and a wide range of types of structures and products. 1.2. The Eurocodes and EU Legislation The Eurocodes serve as reference documents recognised by authorities of the Member States of the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) for the following purposes: The European Free o as a means of compliance of buildings and civil engineering works Trade Association with the Essential Requirements (ER) set out in the Construction (EFTA) is an Products Directive (Council Directive 89/106/EEC), particularly intergovernmental ER 1 “Mechanical resistance and stability” and parts of ER 2 organisation for the “Safety in case of fire” and ER 4 “Safety in use”. promotion of free trade Information contained in this booklet does not necessarily and economic reflect the European Commission official position. It should be noted that the Construction Products Directive is integration to benefit presently being revised. its four Member JRC 61692 States: Iceland, o as a basis for specifying contracts for public construction and Liechtenstein, Norway related engineering service contracts. This relates to the Directive and Switzerland. © European Communities, 2010 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the This booklet is available to download from: http://eurocodes.jrc.ec.europa.eu Council). Eurocodes – Building the future http://eurocodes.jrc.ec.europa.eu o as a framework for drawing up harmonised European Standards DG ENTR, Construction Sector http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/construction/index_en.htm (hEN) and European Technical Approvals (ETA) for construction CEN http://www.cen.eu products. EOTA http://www.eota.eu NANDO http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newapproach/nando 1. THE EUROCODES 1.1. The Eurocodes suite The Eurocodes are a set of European Standards (EN) for the design of buildings and other civil engineering works and construction products. This booklet was produced by the JRC in the framework of the Administrative Arrangement between the Enterprise and Industry Directorate General (DG ENTR) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) The EN Eurocodes regarding support to the implementation, harmonization and further development The Eurocodes cover in a comprehensive manner the basis of design, of the Eurocodes actions on structures, the principal construction materials, all major fields of structural engineering and a wide range of types of structures and products. 1.2. The Eurocodes and EU Legislation The Eurocodes serve as reference documents recognised by authorities of the Member States of the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) for the following purposes: The European Free o as a means of compliance of buildings and civil engineering works Trade Association with the Essential Requirements (ER) set out in the Construction (EFTA) is an Products Directive (Council Directive 89/106/EEC), particularly intergovernmental ER 1 “Mechanical resistance and stability” and parts of ER 2 organisation for the “Safety in case of fire” and ER 4 “Safety in use”. promotion of free trade Information contained in this booklet does not necessarily and economic reflect the European Commission official position. It should be noted that the Construction Products Directive is integration to benefit presently being revised. its four Member JRC 12345 States: Iceland, o as a basis for specifying contracts for public construction and Liechtenstein, Norway related engineering service contracts. This relates to the Directive and Switzerland. © European Communities, 2010 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the This booklet is available to download from: http://eurocodes.jrc.ec.europa.eu Council). Eurocodes – Building the future http://eurocodes.jrc.ec.europa.eu o as a framework for drawing up harmonised European Standards DG ENTR, Construction Sector http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/construction/index_en.htm (hEN) and European Technical Approvals (ETA) for construction CEN http://www.cen.eu products. EOTA http://www.eota.eu NANDO http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newapproach/nando 2. THE CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS DIRECTIVE (CPD) 3. THE EUROCODES AND CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS 2.1. Essential Requirements 3.1. The Eurocodes and technical specifications The Construction Products Directive aims at removing any artificial barrier to trade and is intended for products placed on the market. The Eurocodes embody in technical terms the Essential Requirements and are used to determine the performance of products with regard For the purpose of the Construction Products Directive, a Construction products to these requirements. construction product is defined as “any product which is produced for may be structural incorporation in a permanent manner in construction works, materials and Technical specifications (hENs and ETAs) for construction products: including both buildings and civil engineering works”. constituent products as well as o provide all the necessary performance values of the products According to the Construction Products Directive, products intended prefabricated needed to use the Eurocodes for the design of works; for use in construction works, should have such characteristics that structural components o define the characteristics considered to assess the performance of the works satisfy the following six Essential Requirements (ER): and kits consisting of products in a manner allowing a direct use in the Eurocodes; structural components. o assess and express the declared performance values of the o mechanical resistance and stability; products in terms compatible with the Eurocodes. o safety in case of fire; o hygiene, health and the environment; In order to assure consistency between product and design o safety in use; standards, the Eurocodes: o protection against noise; o energy economy and heat retention. o take into account the technical definitions and test methods used to assess the performance of the product, without requesting other 2.2. The routes to CE Marking or additional assessments; o provide the rules to adjust the declared values of performance to The Construction Products Directive is based on four elements: use the product in specific works (partial safety factors); o provide the application rules for the use of the products in specific 1. A system of technical specifications which are harmonised works or types of works. European Standards and European Technical Approvals (see section 4). 3.2. The Eurocodes and CE Marking 2. An agreed system of Attestation of Conformity for each product family which may involve a third party (a Notified Body) to assess When the product properties to be declared for CE Marking are conformity (see section 5). obtained from calculations, three methods are foreseen: 3. A framework of Notified Bodies (see section 6). 4. CE Marking of construction products, based on the provisions of 1. Indication of geometrical data of the component/kit and of the technical specifications for a product (see section 7). properties of the materials and constituent products. The information on the geometrical data and properties of materials enable the structural component to be designed, using the Eurocodes, for verifying its adequacy in construction works. The level of safety is 2. Determination of properties by means of the Eurocodes, with the set by Member States results expressed as characteristic or design values. This is the through the prime method that uses the Eurocodes to determine