Brandschutz mit Mauerwerk - Stand der deutschen und europäischen Normung

Fire protection with masonry — state of the German and European standardization.

The model building code (MBO) 2002 is moved increasingly in all federal states. The purpose of the MBO is to demand assessments for all building products and to delegate the responsibility for the construction on the people involved in building. I.e. for fire protection building is possible with and according to verification of applicability of construction products only. Verifications of applicability are "national test certificate" (abP), "national technical approvals" (abZ), as well as assessments are available to DIN 4102-4 and DIN 4102-22. For essential divergences approvals for the isolated case (Z. i. E.) of the ministry responsible for building of the federal states are necessary. This counts to new buildings, to rebuilding or modernization of existing constructions. According to the political will the fire brigades are limited in her staff and the construction supervisions / building government offices in many areas only distribute and administer. Therefore building becomes more difficult. The German standardization is forced back more and more and substituted with European norms. In the fire protection the leading German Know How is not represented in many areas because of shortage of money. In European countries fire experts are paid by the state for the fact that the national knowledge, advantages which have grown for decades is put through. Increasingly standards are set up which deal nothing or little with the German construction culture, or which are simply not useable. A flood of standards / papers from the European standardization are coming up which are not scuffle-cash in the construction any more. Instead of the test standard DIN 4102 with the parts 1-3, 5-9, 11-20, approx. 40 European test standards are set up with even more extrapolation standards for the application. The application standards are limited relatively far, unless the industry has co-operated on time.