The Farmers Mart Aug/Sep 2014 - Issue 35 | Page 57

FARM BUILDINGS & EQUIPMENT

YorkshireSteelBuildings.co.uk
Quality Buildings...Made in Yorkshire

CE Marking – A Guide to
buying Farm Buildings
It’s a date that may have passed you by in a warm haze but the 1st of
July 2014 was, for us steel building manufacturers, a watershed day.
It was the day from which all steel
portal frames have to be designed
and constructed to a standard which
achieves the “CE Mark”. If a frame
manufacturer sells a building, (and
consequently if a farmer buys the
building), which has not achieved this
Certification then they (and you) will be
breaking the Law.
If you are buying a steel-framed farm
building it is a significant investment and
you should put an appropriate amount of
effort into specifying your requirements
and ensuring that you get a building fit for
purpose. Do not assume that all “building
suppliers” will do this for you.
There are some practical steps you should

CERTIFICATE OF CONFORMITY OF
THE FACTORY PRODUCTION CONTROL
Notified Body No. 1224
In compliance with Regulation 305/2011/EU of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 9 March 2011 (the Construction Products Regulation or CPR), this
certificate applies to the construction product

Structural Steel Components
intended for load bearing applications
Execution Class

Up To EXC 2

Declaration Method

Design Methods 3b & Method 3a of EN 1090-1.

Welding Process(es)

135

Parent Metal(s)

Materials with a Specified Minimum Design Yield ≤
355 MPa

Parent Metals Group(s) & Sub Group(s)

1.1; 1.2; 1.4

Responsible Welding Co-ordinator

Mr Michael Moffatt

produced by

Yorkshire Steel Buildings (Holdings) Ltd
Aiskew Bank Farm
Back Lane
Aiskew
Bedale
North Yorkshire
DL8 1AU

and produced in the manufacturing plant

Yorkshire Steel Buildings (Holdings) Ltd

Carthorpe House Farm, Carthorpe, Bedale, North Yorkshire, DL8 2LF
This certificate attests that all provisions concerning the assessment and verification
of constancy of performance described in Annex ZA of the standard

EN 1090-1:2009+A1:2011
under system 2+ are applied and that
the factory production control fulfils all the prescribed requirements set out
above.
This certificate was first issued on 23 July 2014 and will remain valid until the date of
expiry shown, provided that the test methods and/or factory production control
requirements included in the harmonised standard, used to assess the performance of
the declared characteristics, do not change, and the product, and the manufacturing
conditions in the plant are not modified significantly.

Certificate number:
1224-CPR-0586

Kevin Towler
Director

Date of initial BM TRADA Certification:
23 July 2014
Date of last issue:
23 July 2014
Certificate expiry date:

BM TRADA Certification Ltd, Chiltern House, Stocking Lane, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4ND, UK
This certificate remains the property of BM TRADA Certification Ltd. This certif