National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 12152:2023. It supersedes BS EN 12152:2002, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee B/538/6, Curtain walling.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

Contractual and legal considerations

This publication has been prepared in good faith, however no representation, warranty, assurance or undertaking (express or implied) is or will be made, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted by BSI in relation to the adequacy, accuracy, completeness or reasonableness of this publication. All and any such responsibility and liability is expressly disclaimed to the full extent permitted by the law.

This publication is provided as is, and is to be used at the recipient’s own risk.

The recipient is advised to consider seeking professional guidance with respect to its use of this publication.

This publication is not intended to constitute a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 July 2023.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 5 June 2023.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN 12152:2023) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 33 “Doors, windows, shutters, building hardware and curtain walling”, the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by January 2024, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by January 2024.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 12152:2002.

The main changes compared to the previous edition are listed below:

modified the class "AE": added the declaration of the maximum test pressure;
added a new classification of air permeability at negative pressure;
added new symbols for the classification based on fixed joint length;
editorial modifications to definitions, in order to make them compliant with the definitions of EN 12153.

This document is part of a series of European Standards dedicated to curtain walling products and derives from performance requirements.

This document forms part of a series of curtain walling standards as specified in the Product Standard EN 13830.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

1 Scope

This document specifies requirements and classification of air permeability of both fixed and openable parts of curtain walling, under positive and negative static air pressure.

This document applies to curtain walling as specified in EN 13830.

NOTE This version EN 12152:2023 supersedes EN 12152:2002. Existing test results according to EN 12152:2002 could be considered still valid compared with this version of EN 12152.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Symbols and abbreviations

5 Requirements

6 Test methods

7 Classification

Bibliography

BS EN 12152:2023

Curtain walling. Air permeability. Performance requirements and classification

Current

Published:

31 Jul 2023