European foreword

This document (EN 12153:2023) 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of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by January 2024, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by January 2024.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 12153:2000.

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

— added a new test of air permeability at negative pressure and re-adapted the details of test report accordingly;
— editorial modifications to definitions, in order to make them compliant with the definitions of EN 12152.

This document contains a bibliography which provides for the inclusion of additional information in the expression of the test results.

This document is part of a series of European Standards dedicated to curtain walling products.

This document forms part of a series of curtain walling performance requirements as defined 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.

BS EN 12153:2023

Curtain walling. Air permeability. Test method

Current

Published:

31 Jul 2023