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• Nordcert, its activities and background
• Contact information 
• The Swedish infrastructure behind certification requirements
  
• Technical Advisory Boards, Sector groups, CONSCERT and Standardization
• Swedish product standards for reinforcing steel
• Nordcerts Certification rules and Marking requirements
• Education and training requirements
• Example of Nordcert certificate

Nordcert is the leading Swedish certification body in the field of structures for buildings.

We certify products, processes and persons and support education and training. The aim is to increase safety and reliability for structures raised in Sweden.

We use three certification marks owned by Nordcert:

Nordcert is a notified certification body with the number 1505 according to the Construction Products Directive, CPD.

We also administer a voluntary certification of steel building designers according to the SBI-mark owned by The Swedish Institute of Steel Construction.

The SBS and BBC marks have been used for decades.

Nordcert supports education of and training by influencing the programs for:

-    responsible persons for erection of steel structures, TR-stål

-    responsible persons for manufacturing of concrete connections, TR-svarm

-    welders of reinforcing steel

-    designers of steel structures

phone: +46 8 34 92 40, mobile: +46 76 848 00 19, e-mail: janolof.johansson@nordcert.se

Nordcert AB

Upplandsgatan 34

S-113 28  Stockholm

Sweden

Three different authorities publish building rules:

Boverket, The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning issues rules for design,

execution and inspection of structures for houses.  The mostly used documents are BKR, BSK and BBK. See www.boverket.se

Vägverket, The Swedish Road Administration issues rules and documents specifying requirements for purchasing bridges. The mostly used are named VKR, TK Bro and TR Bro.

See www.vv.se

Banverket, Swedish Rail Administration issues rules and requirements for purchasing railway bridges. The rules and requirements are published in Vägverkets documents. 

Regarding certification of  materials and products the Swedish position is since a long time that certification is not  obligatory. It is always possible to use a product without certification but in combination with extended inspection and testing. The CE-mark is also not obligatory in Sweden.

Recent trends in rules are harmonization with Eurocodes and European standards and more use of certification of persons. 

Certification bodies, inspection bodies and laboratories which are active in the structural field

should be accredited according to relevant European standards which means SS-EN 45011 for product and processes, SS-EN ISO/IEC 17020 for inspection and SS-EN ISO/IEC 17025 for laboratories.

Accreditation is in Sweden performed exclusively by Swedac, Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment.

The activities of Nordcert are rooted in Technical Advisory Boards where actors in the building sector are represented. Presently there are Technical Advisory Boards for

-   reinforcing steel and components

-   structural steel and components

-   ready mixed concrete

-   precast concrete elements

-   aggregates

-   certification of persons

Nordcert is active in the European Group of Notified Bodies for the CPD and its Sector Groups (SG) for following products:

SG 14  Reinforcing steel and prestressing steel for concrete

SG 17  Structural metallic products

SG 13  Precast concrete products

SG 02  Cement, concrete, mortar and aggregates

CONSCERT is the European group for Certification of Constructional Steel. Its members are notified certification bodies in the area of constructional steel. Nordcert is the Swedish member.

The aim of CONSCERT is to support coordination between certification bodies and to support activities which strengthen certification as a tool in the building process.

Nordcert is active in the Swedish standardization groups for reinforcing steel, structural steel, aggregates and concrete and follows the European standardization work.

# Requirements of standards SS 219180 and SS 141386 respectively SS 141387 are also applicable

Work is proceeding on a new Swedish standard for weldable reinforcing steel which presumably will contain requirements for bars, coils, welded fabric and lattice girders.

Nordcert certifies all reinforcing products and the processes distribution, cutting, bending, decoiling and welding to the SBS mark.

For the different products and processes the following certification procedures apply:

All certified products shall be marked with the SBS mark:

The mark shall be applied on the bundle label and on inspection certificates. The manufacturer shall deliver inspection certificates for bars, coils and prestressing steel.

Nordcert supports education in the structural building sector with the aim to increase competence and safety. Nordcert also requires that specific persons in companies which have a certificate can show their competence by a passed exam.

Example of required competences are: