NEW PUBLICATION FROM ASDMA
Architectural and Specialist
Door Manufacturers Association
THE BEST PRACTICE GUIDE TO TIMBER
FIRE DOORS
manufacture, specification, installation, approval and maintenance
Fire doors feature on every building project. The subject is hugely complex.
Fire doors are the complete installed assembly
No comprehensive
guidance has previously been available in a single publication to help clients,
designers, contractors, manufacturers and approvers on all the elements that go
make a fire door and its installation.
ASDMA, as the trade organisation
for specialist door manufacturers, sees the need for advice to be available on
the multitude of widely varying issues that arise on every project and so has
produced the Best Practice Guide to Timber Fire Doors.
This comprehensive
96-page illustrated Guide is a must for everyone who has responsibility for
- designing buildings and fire door installations
- tendering or awarding
building or fire door contracts
- approval of fire door installations.
ASDMA's
Best Practice Guide puts in one document a wealth of information concerning
timber fire doors.. - legislation applicable in the UK and the role of
the building control and fire authorities
- effect of the CPD and European
standards
- how door leaves and frames are made, the materials used and implications
- intumescent and smoke seal types and their roles
- apertures - design,
glazing, beading and glass types
- storey height doors, overpanels and treatment
of slab to slab structural openings
- an in-depth review of all hardware applications,
functions and options
- wall constructions and their effect on performance
- site preparation and provision of openings
- installation including fire-
and smoke-stopping
- suggested strategies for damage avoidance, troubleshooting
and maintenance
References are provided throughout to guide everybody concerned
in a contract .... clients, specifiers, contractors, manufacturers, building control
and fire authorities, building owners and users on issues they need to watch out
for in the design, tendering, contract awarding, construction, installation, inspection
and occupation stages of a project.
Where else can you find all this
in one document?
The Best Practice Guide can be used to provide a basis for
reaching contractual agreement on specifications, the performance that is to be
provided and the avoidance of anomalies that exist in Regulations and Standards
at the present time.
Can you afford to be without it?
The Best Practice
Guide to Timber Fire Doors is available from ASDMA, price £25 (incl. p&p within
the UK). For overseas orders, please add £5 for postage and packing. We regret
that copies of the Best Practice Guide can only be supplied cash with order.
To: Publications Section
ASDMA
Burnside House
3 Coates Lane
High
Wycombe
Buckinghamshire HP13 5EY
Architectural and Specialist
Door Manufacturers Association
Burnside House 3 Coates Lane High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire HP13 5EY
Telephone: +44 (0)1494 447370 Facsimile: +44 (0)1494
462094
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