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You can rely on UL’s safety science leadership to help solve your safety, quality assurance and compliance challenges. Our comprehensive inspection, validation and certification services for the building and construction products industry help you bring products and systems to market quickly and cost-effectively.

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Fire Door & Fire Window Testing

Full certification services

UL offers full certification services for fire doors, fire door hardware and fire windows which allows companies to demonstrate compliance with opening protective requirements in the National Building Code of Canada and various provincial building codes.  Larger furnace openings allow clients to maximize the number of doors tested with minimum time and expense. In addition to traditional door and window certification, UL also provides specialized services for oversized or custom products, IMO testing of doors and glazing and other programs such as door hardware testing and bullet resistance.  UL also provides building sciences related testing for thermal performance, severe weather and air or water infiltration.   Once your product is Listed, it will appear in a UL Product Directory online and in our Product Spec tools.  These Directories are referenced annually by hundreds of AHJs, code officials, and architects annually.

Services

  • Full fire testing capabilities – large and small furnaces available
  • Field Labeling – inspections and evaluations
  • Steel door distributors – extensive Labeling capabilities
  • Building Sciences including thermal testing, air and water infiltration and for severe weather applications
  • Door hardware testing to UL, ULC and BHMA Test Methods

Test Standards

Fire Doors

  • CAN/ULC – S104 Fire Tests of Door Assemblies
  • CAN/ULC-S113 Standard Specification for Wood Core Doors Meeting the Performance Required by CAN/ULC-S104 for Twenty Minute Fire Rated Closure Assemblies
  • CAN/ULC-S105 Standard Specification for Fire Door Frames Meeting the Performance Required by CAN/ULC-S104
  • ANSI/UL10C Positive Pressure Fire Tests of Door Assemblies
  • ANSI/UL10B Fire Tests of Door Assemblies

Fire Windows

  • CAN4-S106 Standard Method for Fire Tests of Window and Glass Block Assemblies
  • ANSI/UL9 Fire Tests of Window Assemblies

Surface Burning Characteristics of Interior Finish Materials and Systems

Building products used as interior finish materials are evaluated with respect to CAN/ULC-S102. The tests are conducted in the Steiner Tunnel apparatus. This 25-ft furnace chamber measures flame spread and smoke development. Based on the type of building construction and use, building products may also be tested with respect to other nationally recognized fire test standards. Some of these standards utilize actual building construction such as rooms, open corners or walls. Other small-scale test procedures develop data with respect to the ignition properties of the component materials. Once your product is Listed, it will appear in a ULC Product Directory. These Directories are referenced by hundreds of AHJs, code officials, and architects annually.

Test Standards

Surface Burning Characteristics

  • CAN/ULC-S102 Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials and Assemblies
  • CAN/ULC-S102.2 Surface Burning Characteristics of Flooring, Floor Covering and Miscellaneous Materials and Assemblies
  • UL723 Test for Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials (ASTM E84/NFPA 255)
  • CAN/ULC-S127 Standard Corner Wall Method of Test for Flammability Characteristics of Non-Melting Foam Plastic Building Materials

Protective Coverings for Foamed Plastics

  • CAN/ULC-S124 Evaluation of Protective Coverings for Foamed Plastics

Fire Growth of Insulated Building Panels

  • CAN/ULC-S138 Standard Method of Test for Fire Growth of Insulated Building Panels in a Full-Scale Room Configuration

Combustibility Properties

  • CAN/ULC-S114 Standard Method of Test for Determination of Non-Combustibility in Building Materials
  • ULC-S135 Standard Test Method for the Determination of Combustibility Parameters of Building Materials Using and Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter

Intermediate Scale Multistory Test

  • CAN/ULC-S134 Fire Test of Exterior Wall Assemblies

Fire Resistant and Fire Stop Products and Systems

  • CAN/ULC-S101 Fire Endurance Tests of Building Construction and Materials
  • UL263 Standard For Fire Tests of Building Construction and Materials
  • CAN/ULC-S115 Standard Method of Fire Tests of Firestop Systems
  • UL1479 Standard for Fire Tests of Through-Penetration Firestops

Joint Systems

  • UL2079 Standard for Tests for Fire Resistance of Building Joint Systems
  • CAN/ULC-S115 Standard Method of Fire Tests of Firestop System

Roofing Materials

  • CAN/ULC-S126 Standard Method of Test for Fire Spread Under Roof-Deck Assemblies
  • CAN/ULC-S107 Method of Fire Testing of Roofing Coverings