Byggevareforordningen / CPR / EN 1090 - 1

How do I get started?

If you are thinking about getting your company certified to an execution class in the Building Products Regulation, you can usefully choose Weldadvice as your future partner.

We always work together to identify your company's needs according to the type of task, expected order quantity and your finances.

We have been involved since the introduction of the Construction Products Regulation, which is why we consider ourselves an experienced partner when it comes to helping your company through the eye of the needle with a system that is suitable for your particular company and that can be certified according to DS/EN 1090 - 1.

We offer to build your FPC - system (Factory Production Control) based on a basic system in which you can decide which parts of the system structure you want to take on and which parts you want our help with.

Regardless of your choices, we will navigate you through the process so that you stay the course and reach the goal of a system ready for certification after DS/EN 1090 - 1.

Welding coordination task

During the process, you must decide and decide who will perform the welding coordinator function in your company. Depending on the choice of execution class, your welding coordinator's qualifications must match the required level. However, you can choose to have the role of welding coordinator shared between several of your welders, as long as you make sure that all the functions of your system are specified and delegated so that each person knows their role and responsibilities. The breakdown must be clearly stated in your system.

If you determine that you already have employees who will be able to take on parts, but not the entire role, you can choose to supplement your employee's qualifications by using an external welding coordinator. The external welding coordinator can take on the tasks that you do not expect your own employees to be adequately trained for.

Here, for example, you can choose to enter into an agreement with one of Weldadvice welding coordinators to perform these functions in your system. Such an agreement must be in writing and prior to the agreement, a minimum monthly time spent estimated according to your company's needs must be defined. The responsibilities of the external welding coordinator must be clearly stated in the division of functions in your FPCsystem. You can read more about this option under "Welding coordination"just as you can discuss it with us during the process of building and preparing your system.

Certification under DS/EN 1090 - 1

When your FPCsystem is in place, you must make a decision about the certification body you want to enter into an agreement with regarding the certification of your system. Many of our customers choose DANCERT, the Danish Institute of Technology's Certification Body, for the task, as we can vouch for their work and quality through a long-standing collaboration.

When selecting a certification body, it is not necessarily the price of the first-time certification that you should choose to focus on. The price and quality of the subsequent audits of your system is an ongoing cost that you must also expect.

Here it is very important that the certification body and the auditor with whom you will meet and cooperate in the future have the necessary insight and understanding of your business, as well as your products and your production apparatus. If they lean blindly upwards all parts of the standard's requirements, including those that do not really make sense in relation to the product type you have in your order portofolio, the result will be that the audit process becomes unnecessarily time consuming. Your system should be adequate for the tasks you undertake, but don't "shoot sparrows with guns". A poor auditing of your system can eventually become an expensive acquaintance, as you will easily spend time and money taking into account conditions which, in relation to your production on the basis of better professional insight, must be considered to be less significant or directly insignificant.

A good audit will be a balanced review of your system, your settled cases, your inventory management and your implementation and continued use of the system in your business. At the same time, it will provide you with the necessary reassurance as a manufacturer in relation to authorities and customers. It can be a cumbersome and expensive process to have to correct deficiencies in already executed orders or to have to resolve unnecessary disputes through the legal system.

The Construction Products Regulation, CPR, EU Regulation No 305/2011 of 9 March 2011

"Establishing harmonised conditions for the placing on the market of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC"

CPR (Construction Products Regulation) is a common European law that provides for the marketing of construction products/components in the EU.

The Regulation provides a common technical language for assessing the performance of construction products to ensure that reliable information is available to professionals, public authorities and consumers so that they can compare the performance of products from different manufacturers in different countries.

The information is collected in a Performance Declaration (DOP: Declaration of Performance) issued by a certified producer of conformity, who will also be CE - label the product with some essential information. CE the labelling must also contain a reference to the DOP'en.

Standards

Like the areas covered by the Directive for EU regulations, there are a number of standards which have been "harmonised" by the European Commission, according to which they are considered to be adequate for compliance with the provisions of the Regulation. Harmonisation means that the provisions of the aforementioned standards will be regarded as a precision of the provisions of the Regulation and must therefore be followed. A harmonised standard is a European standard drawn up by a European standardisation organisation under a mandate from the European Commission. The application of a harmonised standard prove that your products or services comply with the technical requirements set out in EU law.

The overall harmonised standard for the construction of steel and aluminium structures is DS/EN 1090 - 1 + A1:2012: Requirements for conformity assessment of design components. The standard provides for conformity assessment of components, with the performance characteristics declared by the manufacturer. It will therefore be the provisions of this standard that you as a manufacturer will be certified when obtaining approval for the manufacture of building components in steel and aluminium. There are 4 levels of increasing difficulty that can be certified for ds/EN 1090 - 1, called executions , respectively EXC1 – EXC4.

If you as a manufacturer have obtained an approval/certification in one of the 4 design classes, you can find in DS/EN 1090-2:2018 the technical requirements for the construction of steel structures and in DS/EN 1090 - 3:2019 the technical requirements for the construction of aluminium structures.

En 1090 - 2 and 3 contains a long list of "Normative References", which refers to all the standards that can be used in the manufacture of building components. The list includes material, bolts, welding, control standards, etc. all of which have the same status as the main standard and must therefore be followed to the extent that your products contain the processes or properties mentioned herein.

When assessing which part of these standards you want to apply in your business, Weldadvice very helpful.