What We Do – Timber Fire Doors | BWF Fire Door Alliance

Committed to Fire Door Performance

Comprising of timber fire door manufacturers, licensed door processors, door blank manufacturers and manufacturers and/or suppliers of fire door assembly components, the BWF Fire Door Alliance’s vision is that every fire door or fire doorset sold in the UK meets required standards through its service life.

BWF Fire Door Alliance members are committed to third party certification, fire door / doorset development and performance. Members have been campaigning for greater fire safety for decades – including co-founding the Fire Door Safety Week national awareness campaign several years ago.Through the BWF’s lobbying voice, the Alliance campaigns to enshrine third-party certification of fire safety products in legislation as well as educating on the importance of the correct specification, installation and maintenance of fire doors.

Our Achievements

Over approximately two decades, the BWF Fire Door Alliance membership (formerly the BWF-CERTIFIRE scheme) have collectively achieved the following:

Made significant inroads in driving third party certification of fire doors / fire doorsets into specifications;
With the BWF, the Alliance launched Fire Door Safety Week, a national campaign to help increase public understanding of the role that fire doors play in protecting life and property;
Contributed towards the development of the Building Regulations relating to fire doors;
Launched a new Accredited Course in Fire Door Installation, leading to the inclusion of Fire Door Installation unit on a CSCS card once an onsite assessment has been successfully completed;
All member timber fire doors which underwent fire-resistance testing by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) were found to have met required standards, exceeding the minimum 30-minute burn time requirement. This is in direct contrast to glass reinforced polymer foam filled fire doors – the type recovered from Grenfell tower, which initiated this investigation – three quarters of which failed MHCLG tests in results published in 2019.

100% of timber fire doors pass MHCLG tests

All timber fire doors which underwent fire-resistance testing by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) were found to have met required standards, exceeding the minimum 30-minute burn time requirement.

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