Accred­i­ta­tion

IFAB is an accred­it­ed test lab­o­ra­to­ry (pdf) by DAkkS for DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018-03 for the proof of the effec­tive­ness of water-based fire-fight­ing sys­tems by fire tests for rolling stock (rail vehi­cles), indus­tri­al plants, pub­lic places, store rooms, engine and machin­ery spaces, tun­nel- and trans­port infra­struc­ture sys­tems as well as high-volt­age bat­ter­ies and the exper­i­men­tal deter­mi­na­tion of design fire sce­nar­ios by full scale fire tests.

It applies to fields that are stat­ed in the annex of the accred­i­ta­tion D-PL-19994-01-00e with­in the fol­low­ing scope:

 • Stan­dard­ised fire tests,
 • Not stan­dard­ised fire tests (ad hoc).

Ad hoc fire tests will be applied to the exper­i­men­tal deter­mi­na­tion of design fire sce­nar­ios by full scale fire tests. There­fore, IFAB has devel­oped its own test pro­ce­dures which are part of the accred­i­ta­tion. More­over, fur­ther mea­sure­ment vari­ables can be deter­mined dur­ing fire tests.

Doc. No.Name of the IFAB-devel­oped fire test pro­ce­dures
IFAB 7-1-1/1:06-2018Pro­ce­dure to deter­mine tem­per­a­ture devel­op­ment in the sur­round­ing of fires as proof of fire con­trol, -sup­pres­sion or -extin­guish­ment using ther­mo­cou­ples
IFAB 7-1-1/2:06-2018:Pro­ce­dure to deter­mine the amount of released fire-fight­ing agent by pres­sure mea­sure­ment
IFAB 7-1-1/3:06-2018Pro­ce­dure to deter­mine the con­cen­tra­tion of oxy­gen, car­bon monox­ide and -diox­ide in the sur­round­ing of fire to proof the ful­fill­ment of spe­cif­ic pro­tec­tion objec­tives using elec­tro­chem­i­cal or infrared mea­sur­ing meth­ods
IFAB 7-1-1/4:03-2020Pro­ce­dure to deter­mine the con­cen­tra­tion of com­bus­tion gas­es by using a FTIR multi­gas ana­lyt­i­cal equip­ment in the sur­round­ing of fire to proof the ful­fill­ment of spe­cif­ic pro­tec­tion objec­tives

If you have any ques­tions regard­ing the accred­i­ta­tion, you can con­tact us here.

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