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Hardware for fire and escape doors. Issue 3 (Withdrawn)
Publication Year
2009
Document Status
Withdrawn, cited in regs
Abstract
Gives advice for selection of building hardware for fire-resisting doors and doorsets, and escape doors. Code encompasses timber fire doors of up to two hours' resistance and steel fire doors of up to four hours' resistance. The building hardware items covered are all either essential to the successful operation of the doorset, or optional items which could cause a failure of the doorset. Addresses the most recent legislation in the field.
Document History
Superseded by Issue No. 4, 2012. Published in conjunction with the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers. Supersedes BHIF 'Hardware for fire and escape doors. Code of Practice. Issue 1, 2000'. Supersedes DHF 'Code of practice: hardware for fire and escape doors' Issue 2, 2006.
Publisher Information
Door and Hardware Federation
The Door and Hardware Federation (DHF) was created from a merger of the Association of Builders' Hardware Manufacturers (ABHM) and the Door and Shutter Manufacturers' Association (DSMA) as a not-for-profit trade association for companies associated with locks and building hardware, doorsets, industrial doors and shutters, domestic garage doors and automated gates. They provide technical advice, training, knowledge and practical help.
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