The guiding principles of each scheme are to champion best practice and to work together to raise standards across the entire industry. Each Scheme has its own governance structure and budget, and is managed and operated by the BWF. To join a Scheme, a business has to be a member of the BWF.
The BWF Fire Door Alliance’s mission is to ensure that only third-party certified fire doors and fire door sets, installed by certified companies are used in the UK.
The BWF Fire Door Alliance membership includes not only the market leaders in fire door manufacturing, but also in the processing of fire doors and the manufacture and supply of ironmongery, intumescent seals and glazing systems etc.
Supplier members manufacture and supply products they have had certified, sell certified products, or offer relevant services to member companies.
The Fire Door Alliance has a wide range of resources available, including a Best Practice Guide, an Installation Guide and a suite of Fact Cards.
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 and are regularly audited to ensure they have the required systems and processes in place to demonstrate that their stairs are compliant with building regulations. Each accredited member gets to apply 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.
