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Advice on soon-to-be compulsory CE marking will be given by RIDBA at two seminars.
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Advice on how steel-framed building manufacturers and fabricators can minimise the cost of complying with soon-to-be compulsory CE marking is being offered in two seminars organised by the Rural and Industrial Design and Building Association (RIDBA).
The seminars, in Carlisle on October 26th and Swindon on November 9th, will explain the CE marking issue as it affects steel frame manufacturers in the agricultural and industrial sectors, and how RIDBA can help them comply more cost-effectively.
This leg-up on the legislative ladder was created by RIDBA in a link-up with TRADA Technology, the leading independent timber research, consultancy, testing and information provider for the UK construction industry, and the Steel Construction Institute (SCI).
As well as hearing from RIDBA chairman Geoff Simpson, managing director of the award-winning Simpson & Allinson Group, and vice-chairman Antony Lowther, managing director of AJ Lowther & Son, the seminars will also feature presentations from BM TRADA project co-ordinator Niresh Somlie and SCI associate director Dr Martin Heywood.
The link-up gives RIDBA members preferential access to the factory production control manual and the design protocol required by fabricators for the CE marking of steel framed buildings. This will markedly reduce their costs in meeting the requirements to CE Mark their frames.
RIDBA has worked closely with BM TRADA, TRADA Technology and SCI since 2009 to ensure its members are fully prepared when CE marking becomes mandatory under the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) which has replaced the Construction Products Directive (CPD)
CE marking is not currently compulsory in the UK but after July 2013 it will become a criminal offence to supply a frame without a CE mark. This will demonstrate both compliance with the Construction Products Regulation - which is mandatory - and that the buildings are fit for purpose under BS EN 1090 Part 2 'Execution of Steel Structures and Aluminium Structures'. There are timber- based standards in the pipeline as well.
RIDBA members supply over 50% of the UK agricultural market and over 12% of the total single-storey steel-framed market. They erect more than 5,500 agricultural and industrial buildings a year and supply an area of almost 2million²m of steel-framed buildings.
The Carlisle seminar will be held at the Best Western Cumbria Park Hotel, on Scotland Road, Carlisle, and the Swindon one at the Blunsdon House Hotel, The Ridge, Blunsdon, both between 10am and 3pm.
Tickets are available online
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