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BS EN 15497 - FINGER JOINTED STRUCTURAL TIMBER - PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS

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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Symbols
5 Requirements
  5.1 General
  5.2 Timber
       5.2.1 General
       5.2.2 Species
       5.2.3 Knots and fissures
       5.2.4 Wane or edge damage
  5.3 Adhesives
  5.4 Finger joints
  5.5 Durability
       5.5.1 Natural durability of the timber
       5.5.2 Timber treated against biological attack
  5.6 Formaldehyde emission
  5.7 Reaction to fire
6 Evaluation of conformity
  6.1 General
  6.2 Initial type testing
       6.2.1 General
       6.2.2 Report
  6.3 Factory production control (FPC)
       6.3.1 General
       6.3.2 Equipment
       6.3.3 Raw materials and components
       6.3.4 Product testing and evaluation
7 Marking
Annex A (normative) - Minimum manufacturing requirements
  A.1 Production conditions
  A.2 Timber
  A.3 Adhesive application
       A.3.1 General
       A.3.2 Adhesive application by machine
       A.3.3 Manual adhesive application
  A.4 Assembly and end pressure
       A.4.1 Assembly
       A.4.2 Adhesive
       A.4.3 End pressure
Annex B (normative) - Formaldehyde classes
  B.1 General
  B.2 Initial classification and factory production control
  B.3 Requirements for the formaldehyde classes
Annex ZA (informative) - Clauses of this European standard
         addressing the provisions of the EU Constructions
         Products Directive
  ZA.1 Scope and relevant characteristics
  ZA.2 Procedure for attestation of conformity of
       finger-jointed structural timber
       ZA.2.1 System of attestation of conformity
       ZA.2.2 EC certificate of conformity and EC declaration
              of conformity
  ZA.3 CE marking and labelling
Bibliography

BS EN 15497

Committee
B/518
DocumentType
Draft
Pages
30
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
PREN 15497 : DRAFT 2011 Identical

EN 335-2:2006 Durability of wood and wood-based products - Definition of use classes - Part 2: Application to solid wood
EN 350-1:1994 Durability of wood and wood-based products - Natural durability of solid wood - Part 1: Guide to the principles of testing and classification of the natural durability of wood
EN 14081-2:2010+A1:2012 Timber structures - Strength graded structural timber with rectangular cross section - Part 2: Machine grading; additional requirements for initial type testing
89/106/EEC : 1988 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE OF 21 DECEMBER 1988 ON THE APPROXIMATION OF LAWS, REGULATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS OF THE MEMBER STATES RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS
EN 717-1:2004 Wood-based panels - Determination of formaldehyde release - Part 1: Formaldehyde emission by the chamber method
EN 14081-4:2009 Timber structures - Strength graded structural timber with rectangular cross section - Part 4: Machine grading - Grading machine settings for machine controlled systems
EN 13501-2:2016 Fire classification of construction products and building elements - Part 2: Classification using data from fire resistance tests, excluding ventilation services
EN 301:2017 Adhesives, phenolic and aminoplastic, for load-bearing timber structures - Classification and performance requirements
EN 13556:2003 Round and sawn timber - Nomenclature of timbers used in Europe
EN 13238:2010 Reaction to fire tests for building products - Conditioning procedures and general rules for selection of substrates
EN 13823:2010+A1:2014 Reaction to fire tests for building products - Building products excluding floorings exposed to the thermal attack by a single burning item
EN 350-2:1994 Durability of wood and wood-based products - Natural durability of solid wood - Part 2: Guide to natural durability and treatability of selected wood species of importance in Europe
EN 14081-1:2016 Timber structures - Strength graded structural timber with rectangular cross section - Part 1: General requirements
EN ISO 9001:2015 Quality management systems - Requirements (ISO 9001:2015)
EN 385:2001 Finger jointed structural timber - Performance requirements and minimum production requirements
EN 15425:2017 Adhesives - One component polyurethane (PUR) for load-bearing timber structures - Classification and performance requirements
EN 338:2016 Structural timber - Strength classes
EN 14358:2016 Timber structures - Calculation and verification of characteristic values
PREN 408 : DRAFT 2009 TIMBER STRUCTURES - STRUCTURAL TIMBER AND GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER - DETERMINATION OF SOME PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
EN 335-1:2006 Durability of wood and wood- based products - Definition of use classes - Part 1: General
EN 14080:2013 Timber structures - Glued laminated timber and glued solid timber - Requirements
EN 14081-3:2012 Timber structures - Strength graded structural timber with rectangular cross section - Part 3: Machine grading; additional requirements for factory production control
EN 15228:2009 Structural timber - Structural timber preservative treated against biological attack

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