FprEN 13561 rev

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-julij-2011
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External blinds and awnings - Performance requirements including safety
Markisen - Leistungs- und Sicherheitsanforderungen
Stores extérieurs - Exigences de performance y compris la sécurité
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 13561 rev
ICS:
91.060.50 Vrata in okna Doors and windows
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
DRAFT
prEN 13561 rev
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
May 2011
ICS 91.060.50 Will supersede EN 13561:2004+A1:2008
English Version
External blinds and awnings - Performance requirements
including safety
Stores extérieurs - Exigences de performance y compris la Markisen - Leistungs- und Sicherheitsanforderungen
sécurité
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prEN 13561:2011 (E)
Contents
page
Foreword .3
Introduction .4
1 Scope .5
2 Normative references .5
3 Terms and definitions .6
4 Wind resistance .8
5 Resistance to water pocket . 10
6 Resistance to snow load . 10
7 Operating effort . 10
8 Design of the operating mechanism — Diagrams HPV ("Human Pull Value") . 12
9 Misuse . 14
10 Mechanical endurance (repeated operation cycles) . 16
11 Operation in frosty conditions . 18
12 Safety in use . 18
13 Hygiene, health and environment . 22
14 Additional thermal resistance . 22
15 Total solar energy transmittance g . 22
tot
16 Durability . 23
17 Dimensional tolerances . 26
18 Handling and storage . 27
19 Information for use . 28
20 Evaluation of conformity . 30
Annex A (normative)  Fabrics — Determination of the elongation of external blinds fabrics under
a static load – Test method . 35
Annex B (normative)  List of significant machine hazards . 42
Annex C (informative)  Example of methodology for wind stress determination on fixed parts of
external blinds . 43
Annex ZA (informative)  Clauses of this European Standard addressing the provisions of EU
Construction Products Directive . 44
Annex ZB (informative)  Relationship between this European Standard and the Essential
Requirements of EU Directive 2006/42/EC . 48
Bibliography . 49

prEN 13561:2011 (E)
Foreword
This document (prEN 13561:2011) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 33 “Doors, windows,
shutters, building hardware and curtain walling”, the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.
This document is currently submitted to the CEN Enquiry.
This document will supersede EN 13561:2004 + A1:2008:.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the
European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU Directive(s).
For relationship with EU Directives, see informative Annex ZA and Annex ZB, which is an integral part of this
document.
This European Standard is a part of a series of standards dealing with blinds and shutters for buildings as
defined in EN 12216.
This European Standard specifies the requirements for external blinds and awnings, the levels of
performances and where applicable, the associated classes.
It is completed by test standards as well as by standards referring to specific performance requirements.
The annexes A and B are normative.
Annex C is informative.
This document includes a Bibliography.
- Clause 4 “wind resistance” has been modified in integrate requirements on the shutters and external
venetian blinds in the retracted position and has been aligned to the EN 1932 “test methods” under
revision. Class 0 has been deleted.
- Clause 10 “Resistance of mechanisms holding the shutter in the extended position” has been clarified and
modified to be applicable to any type of shutters and external venetian blinds.
- Clause 14 “Resistance against intrusion” has been added.
- Clause 17 “Additional thermal resistance” has been clarified
- Clause 18 “Total solar energy transmittance” has been added
- Clause 19.2 “Durability of rigid plastic materials” has been aligned to the new version of EN 13245-1.
- Clause 19.3 “Durability of metals” has been clarified
- Clause 20 “Dimensional tolerances” has been modified for external venetian blinds
- Clause 23 “Evaluation of conformity” has been aligned to the European template
- Annex B “Calculation of wind pressure exerted on a shutter” has been modified to consider values of
Eurocode 1.
- Annex C “List of significant machine hazards” has been modified. Standard EN ISO 14121-1 has been
introduced.
- Annex D “Example of methodology for wind stress determination on fixed parts of shutters” has been
added.
- Annex ZA has been modified to introduce a two mandated characteristics : the total solar energy
transmittance g and the additional thermal resistance ∆R
tot
prEN 13561:2011 (E)
Introduction
The performances given in this European Standard which illustrate suitability for use, are required for every
type of external blind and awnings (intrinsic performances).
Other performances are only required as a complement (specific performances) and result in specific
products. Some of them are described in European Standards (e.g. EN 1522, EN 1523). Others are
described in EN 14500 and EN 14501 which are related to important issues such as thermal comfort, i.e.:
 Solar factor;
 Shading factor;
 Direct solar transmittance;
 Secondary heat transfert factor;
and visual comfort, i.e.:
 Light control;
 Night privacy;
 Visual contact with the outside;
 Glare control;
 Use of daylight;
 Rendering of colours.
NOTE Health and Safety regulations require that the workplace receives as much natural light as is reasonably
practical (see EU Directive 89/654/EEC) and protection of operators working with VDV screens against glare control and
reflected light (see EU Directive 87/391/EEC).
The list of these documents is given in the Bibliography.
With the aim of clarifying the intentions of the standard and avoiding doubts when reading it, following
assumptions were made related to power operated products while producing it:
 Negotiations shall occur between the manufacturer and the purchaser concerning particular conditions
for use and places for use such as for nursery schools or for buildings for disabled people which need
specific risk analysis;
 The risk analysis carried out in this European Standard and the corresponding significant hazards listed
in Annex Bsuppose a normal use or normally predictable use e.g. which excludes deliberate and
conscious risks taken by the user (see Interpretative Document “Safety in use” of EU Construction
Products Directive).
prEN 13561:2011 (E)
1 Scope
This European Standard specifies the performance requirements which external blinds and awnings shall
fulfil when fitted to a building. It deals also with the significant hazards for construction, transport, installation,
operation and maintenance (see list of significant machine hazards in Annex B).
It applies to all external blinds and awnings as well as similar products whatever their design and nature of
the materials used, as follows and defined in EN 12216:
 folding arm awning, trellis arm awning, pivot arm awning, slide arm awning, vertical roller awning,
marquisolette, façade awning, skylight awning, conservatory awning, Pergola awning, Dutch awning,
insect screen;
 brise-soleil.
This European Standard does not cover the wind resistance of fixed nor semi-fixed products, e.g. Dutch
awnings, fixed or mobile and brise-soleil. These types of products shall be evaluated according to the
relevant calculation methods (such as Eurocodes).
This European Standard covers the wind resistance of the retractable part of Pergola awnings. However, the
structural part of these products is not covered and shall be evaluated according to the relevant calculation
methods (such as Eurocodes).
The products covered by this European Standard may be operated manually, with or without compensating
springs or by means of electric motors (power operated products).
NOTE This standard covers external blinds and awnings mounted externally. In case such products are installed
internally, they should fulfil all relevant safety requirements defined in EN 13120.
This document is not applicable to external blinds and awnings which are manufactured before the date of
publication of this document.
The noise emission of power operated external blinds and awnings is not considered to be a relevant hazard.
Therefore this standard does not contain any specific requirements on noise in relation to the Machinery
Directive.
If not specified otherwise, the term "external blind" used in this document refers to any type of external blinds
or awnings included in the scope of this European Standard.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
EN ISO 14121-1, Safety of machinery - Risk assessment - Part 1: Principles
EN 1070:1998, Safety of machinery – Terminology.
EN 1670, Building hardware – Corrosion resistance – Requirements and test methods.
prEN 1932:2011, External blinds and shutters – Resistance to wind loads – Method of testing.
EN 1933, Exterior blinds – Resistance to load due to
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