Agrément Certificates
An Agrément Certificate is awarded to a product only after it has successfully passed a comprehensive assessment involving laboratory testing, on-site evaluations and inspections of production.
The main focus of the Agrément process is the evaluation of the extent to which the product allows compliance with relevant Building Regulations and other statutory or non-statutory requirements to be achieved.
In addition to laboratory work, BBA technical staff also visit sites where products under evaluation are being installed and also, if possible, where they have been installed for some time. The third element of the Agrément process, the evaluation of the production facility is carried out early in the assessment so that any areas of concern will be rectified at that point. Product manufacture is monitored throughout the life of an Agrément Certificate, usually twice a year and more intensively at the end of each three-year period during the formal Review procedure (five years for HAPAS). It is this thoroughness and rigour of examination that has helped to give the BBA and its Agrément Certificates the high reputation it holds among all those involved in the selection or acceptance of building products.
Over 4000 Agrément Certificates have been issued, covering more than 200 different product areas and representing the most comprehensive source of impartial information on product performance available in the UK. They have helped their holders sell their products to a traditionally-minded market and enabled specifiers and purchasers to select the products covered by them in the knowledge that all relevant performance factors have been thoroughly evaluated. Research carried out amongst specifiers, contractors and clients has shown a high preference for products with Agrément Certificates (as opposed to those without) and housing warranty bodies, such as the NHBC, place great importance on the value of Agrément Certificates.
Please click on the images below to see the results of our BBA - British Board of Agrement assessment report
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