Fire door and fire window testing
UL offers the most comprehensive fire door and fire window testing capabilities available. Our fire safety team tests a variety of products and hardware for fire resistance and performance, including swinging doors, glazing materials, frames, locks, closers, hinges and other door hardware products.
The UL Fire Safety team provides unmatched experience, having helped to write many of the industry test standards that are referenced in building codes. And UL offers a global reach, with an established presence across North America, Asia and the Middle East.
Services include:
- Full fire-testing capabilities, with both large and small furnaces available, including a new state-of-the-art panel furnace. Also, certification services for a wide range of fire door assemblies, from chute and access doors to passenger elevator entrances and rolling-steel-type doors.
- Wind resistance tests of assemblies and components to ASTM and ANSI standards.
- Extensive labeling capabilities for steel door and frame distributors.
- Full labeling capabilities for wood fire doors.
- Air leakage tests for smoke- and leakage-rated door assemblies.
- Performance testing of hardware to both UL and ANSI/BHMA standards.
- Field labeling (inspections and evaluations).
Products and standards
UL tests for a wide variety of current-edition standards for both fire doors and fire windows.
Fire doors and fire door hardware:
- ANSI/UL 10C, Positive Pressure Fire Tests of Door Assemblies
- ANSI/UL 10B, Fire Tests of Door Assemblies
- UL 1784, Air Leakage Tests of Door Assemblies
- NFPA 252, Standard Methods of Fire Tests of Door Assemblies (National Fire Codes, vol. 6)
- UL Subject 63, Outline of Investigation for Fire Door Frames
- CAN4-S104-M80, Standard Method for Fire Tests of Door Assemblies
Fire windows:
- UL 9, Fire Tests of Window Assemblies (both positive and neutral pressure methods)
- NFPA 257, Standard on Fire Tests for Window and Glass Block Assemblies
- CAN4-S106-M80, Standard Method for Fire Tests of Window and Glass Block Assemblies
The UL advantage
UL testing and certification services offer several advantages, including product listing in an applicable UL product directory. UL directories contain a list of companies authorized to use a UL Mark that have demonstrated compliance with UL requirements and applicable standards. The directories are considered an invaluable resource by thousands of regulatory authorities, building owners and insurance companies.
We offer comprehensive, state-of-the-art testing facilities and a highly experienced technical staff with extensive code knowledge. This is why the UL Mark is immediately recognized and respected by professionals in fire safety around the world.
Additionally, UL's engineers have been instrumental in developing thousands of safety standards recognized by regulatory authorities and nearly 200 industries.
