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BS 5400 for steel, concrete and composite bridges. BS 5499 for graphical symbols and signs in building construction; including shape, colour and layout. BS 5544 for anti-bandit glazing (glazing resistant to manual attack) BS 5750 for quality management, the ancestor of ISO 9000.
The standards produced are titled British Standard XXXX[-P]:YYYY where XXXX is the number of the standard, P is the number of the part of the standard (where the standard is split into multiple parts) and YYYY is the year in which the standard came into effect.
BSI was founded as the Engineering Standards Committee in London in 1901. It subsequently extended its standardization work and became the British Engineering Standards Association in 1918, adopting the name British Standards Institution in 1931 after receiving a Royal Charter in 1929.
The Building Act 1984 (As Amended, by the Building Safety Act 2022) permits detailed regulations to be made by the Secretary of State (for England) for England and by a Welsh Minister for Wales. As 'Building Regulations' and 'Building Safety' are devolved areas of law, in the 4 parts of the UK. The building regulations made under the 1984 Act ...
Imperial units. The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road) The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 ( 5 Geo. 4. c.
Category. : British Standards. This category is British Standards, designated by the British Standards Institution. For other standards used in Britain, see Category:British standards .
The BSI (British Standards Institute) publishes numerous titles concerning acceptable standards of design/safety/quality across different fields. History of BS 7671 and predecessor standards [ edit ] The first edition was published in 1882 as the "Rules and Regulations for the Prevention of Fire Risks arising from Electric Lighting."
British Standard Whitworth. British Standard Whitworth ( BSW) is an imperial-unit -based screw thread standard, devised and specified by Joseph Whitworth in 1841 and later adopted as a British Standard. It was the world's first national screw thread standard, and is the basis for many other standards, such as BSF, BSP, BSCon, and BSCopper .