Abstract
Aim: The requirements for placing construction products for fire protection marked with a construction mark on the market or making them available on the national market result from the applicable legal acts. The article aims to present the current requirements and to analyze the changes introduced over the last two years. It contains a valid list of construction products for fire protection, for which it is necessary to carry out national assessment and verification of constancy of performance, as well as a summary of information related to the update of the definitions.
Introduction: In 2017, the Regulation of the Minister of Infrastructure and Construction on the method of declaring the performance of construction products and the method of marking them with a construction mark entered into force. It also concerned products used in fire protection [1]. The previous legal act that was in force in this area was the 2018 regulation [2]. In the article published in the fourth issue of “BITP. Safety and Fire Technique” from 2018 [8], the authors discussed the changes introduced then. More than 2 years have passed since the previous article was written, and the 2017 regulation has four amending acts, which - according to the authors - also deserve clarification. The changes to these regulations included updating the list of construction products for which national assessment and verification of constancy of performance is carried out, amendment of the definitions and extension of the transition periods.
Methodology: In order to present changes in the scope of the requirements for placing construction products for fire protection marked with a construction mark on the market or making them available on the national market, an analysis was carried out of the acts amending the regulation of the Minister of Infrastructure and Construction of 17 November 2016 on the method of declaring the performance of construction products and the method of marking their construction mark. On the basis of the analysis, the scope of changes was presented along with an indication of their impact on national assessment and verification of constancy of performance.
Conclusions: This article presents changes over the last 2 years in the requirements for placing construction products for fire protection marked with a construction mark on the market or making them available on the domestic market.
Keywords: construction product, marking with a construction mark, national assessment of constancy of performance
Type of article: review article