Fire Resistance Classification


The CSI Fire Resistance Laboratory classifies the fire resistance of numerous building systems, both load-bearing and non-load-bearing, compartmentalised and also without the partition function, of premises subject to fire prevention regulations.

CSI is a Laboratory authorised by the Ministry of the Interior, according to the Ministerial Decree of 26 March 1985, and is also an accredited Laboratory (the only one in Italy, in many cases) by the National Accreditation Body, Accredia, for the fire resistance classification of load-bearing, separating and non-separating elements, both horizontal (floors) and vertical (masonry), in the civil and industrial building sector.

CSI carries out tests and classifies fire resistance according to national regulations since 1988. It was the first laboratory in Italy to perform tests and issue classifications, according to the new European standards, in the context of the experimental verification of fire resistance based on Decree of the Ministry of Interior of February 16, 2007.

CSI boasts almost thirty years of experience in the testing verification of fire resistance, in particular for the most common dividing systems (masonry walls of blocks, light walls) or floors of the most different types (mixed steel and concrete, predalle, floors with lightening, in wood) and for special vertical load-bearing elements (wooden walls and mixed wood-slabs, walls in modular elements in reinforced concrete); to these standard services, CSI has added qualification services, the only body in Italy, for special systems (protective systems for structural elements according to the EN 13381 series standards), for service supply systems such as, for example, fire dampers, balconies and walkways or curtain walls

CSI offers the testing and classification service for the following systems:

  • Fire doors resistance test (EN 1634-1)
  • Fire resistance characterization test for elements of building hardware (EN 1634-2)
  • Smoke control test for door and shutter assemblies (EN 1634-3)
  • Walls (EN 1365-1)
  • Floors and roofs (EN 1365-2)
  • Beams (EN 1365-3)
  • Balconies and walkways (EN 1365-5)
  • Stairs (EN 1365-6)
  • Walls (EN 1364-1)
  • Ceilings (EN 1364-2)
  • Curtain walling - Full configuration (complete assembly) and Part configuration (EN 1364-3 and EN 1364-4)
  • Landing doors fire resistance test (EN 81-58)
  • Horizontal protective membrane (EN 13381-1)
  • Applied protection to concrete members (EN 13381-3)
  • Applied passive protection to steel members (EN 13381-4)
  • Reactive fire protection systems to the fire resistance of structural steel members (EN 13381-8)
  • Fire dampers (EN 1366-2)
  • Penetration seals (EN 1366-3)
  • Linear joint seals (EN 1366-4)
  • Service ducts and shafts (EN 1366-5)
  • Raised access and hollow core floors (EN 1366-6)
  • Fire safety storage cabinets (EN 14470-1)

 

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