The BWF operates two industry schemes: the BWF Fire Door Alliance and the BWF Stair Scheme. The guiding principles of each scheme are to champion best practice and to work together to raise standards across the entire industry.
4.3 Industry Schemes
BWF Fire Door Alliance
Mission: To ensure that only third-party certified fire doors and fire door sets, installed by certified companies, are used in the UK.
BWF Fire Door Alliance members have committed to a rigorous certification programme, requiring a considerable investment in time and money. This commitment to quality helps to ensure that fire doors / fire doorsets achieve their purpose of protecting lives and property.
Strategic Partnerships:
New BWF Fire Door Alliance member certified timber fire doors on the market in 2024
With the ongoing challenges in the economy and consolidation in the market we saw a reduction of 9.5% certified doors placed on the market during 2024 compared to 2023. We estimate that over 1.9 million BWF Fire Door Alliance member certified fire doors were placed on the market in 2024.
FDA Governance
The Advisory Committee is the main elected Committee of the BWF Fire Door Alliance and is responsible for upholding the aims of the Alliance and to represent the interests of the members, as laid out in the rules of the Fire Door Alliance. The BWF Fire Door Alliance Advisory Committee is representative of the scheme and the scheme membership.
The Advisory Committee met twice
FDA Members’ Day took place in May with 50 members registering for the event
Throughout 2024, fire doors, and fire door related queries formed the highest number of technical cases raised
Website pages – most visited: 131,577k visits to firedoors.bwf.org.uk
Social Media: FDA Linkedin - 20k Impressions
BWF Stair Scheme
The BWF Stair Scheme exists to promote the principle that stair safety depends on the quality of design, specification and installation. All Scheme members are accredited via the BWF with the member applying the Stair Scheme badge to their stairs to demonstrate their commitment to well designed, well manufactured, safe stairs.
To drive standards and to position themselves as experts in stair design and manufacture, the BWF Stair Scheme members have contributed to a number of practical guides. These guides are promoted to a variety of audiences encompassing housebuilders and developers, architects, building control, local authority specifiers and homeowners.
3k visits to stairs.org.uk
50,000+
accredited stairs supplied through the scheme
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Stair Scheme members meeting held in 2024
Members have achieved compliance with the stair scheme via the audit throughout 2024
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stairs is the 3rd for member technical cases raised
New E-Learning Course Overview of Timber Stairs
This course provides an overview of timber stairs, introducing and developing an understanding of the requirements for their design, manufacture, and installation.
It emphasises creating appropriate and secure joints and ensures proper installation on site.
• Stair design
• Manufacture of timber stairs and timber stair parts
• Installation of timber stairs
• Quality assurance
The BWF Overview of Timber Stairs E-Learning course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service.
Stair Scheme Members have worked with the BWF throughout 2024 to review the Wood Occupations National Occupational Standards (NOS) to ensure installation of timber stairs is included in the NOS with the recommendation that stairs is made mandatory. The consultation will go live in 2025.