Approvals
Agrément Certificates
An Agrément Certificate is awarded to a product only after it
has successfully passed a comprehensive assessment involving
laboratory testing, on-site evaluations and inspections of
production.
The main focus of the Agrément process is the
evaluation of the extent to which the product allows compliance
with relevant Building Regulations and other statutory or
non-statutory requirements to be achieved.
In addition to laboratory work, BBA technical staff
also visit sites where products under evaluation are being
installed and also, if possible, where they have been installed for
some time. The third element of the Agrément process, the
evaluation of the production facility is carried out early in the
assessment so that any areas of concern will be rectified at that
point. Product manufacture is monitored throughout the life of an
Agrément Certificate, usually twice a year and more intensively at
the end of each three-year period during the formal Review
procedure (five years for HAPAS). It is this thoroughness and
rigour of examination that has helped to give the BBA and its
Agrément Certificates the high reputation it holds among all those
involved in the selection or acceptance of building products.
Over 4000 Agrément Certificates have been
issued, covering more than 200 different product areas and
representing the most comprehensive source of impartial information
on product performance available in the UK. They have helped their
holders sell their products to a traditionally-minded market and
enabled specifiers and purchasers to select the products covered by
them in the knowledge that all relevant performance factors have
been thoroughly evaluated. Research carried out amongst specifiers,
contractors and clients has shown a high preference for products
with Agrément Certificates (as opposed to those without) and
housing warranty bodies, such as the NHBC, place great importance
on the value of Agrément Certificates.
Agrément Certificates can be found
using the Certificate Search.
European
Technical Approvals and CE Marking