CSB: Licensing and Sector Scheme DS/CSB/525

Issue No 03
Issue Date July 09
Concrete Step Barrier Design Guidance
CSB: Licensing and Sector Scheme
CSB: Licensing and Sector Scheme
Guidance Notes
The Britpave website describes a licensing scheme for
concrete step barrier. The following text describes the key
purposes of, and differences between, a licensing system
and third party certification of processes against a national
highways sector scheme.
Licensing
The design, testing and installation of Britpave Concrete
Step Barrier (CSB) is, like all road restraint systems,
bound by the requirements set out in BS EN 1317¹.
These requirements include defined impact performance.
BS EN 1317 also defines performance classes for different
containment levels, acceptance criteria for impact tests and
test methods.
Britpave, as the nominated Highways Agency Promoter
of CSB, has an obligation to ensure that controls are
implemented so that the products it promotes are installed
in accordance with BS EN 1317, Road Overseeing Authority
Specifications and the Britpave CSB Product Specification.
One of these controls is the Britpave process of licensing,
whereby installers receive a licence from Britpave which
enables them to adopt the Britpave design of CSB as a
in-situ vehicle restraint system.
A Britpave Licensed CSB installer is a company who
directly constructs the barrier. It is not the main contractor
where a specialist sub-contract installer is used on a
particular site.
The licensing conditions are set by Britpave in agreement
with organisations that wish to become licensed installers.
Such conditions may or may not include an assessment of
a company’s capability, plant, equipment and processes to
ensure their suitability.
Licence holders are subject to audit by Britpave to ensure
they comply with the terms of the licence.
The licence holder has access to advice guidance and
technical support from Britpave.
BS EN 1317-2 Road restraint systems. Performance classes,
impact test acceptance criteria and test methods for safety
barriers.
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BS EN ISO 9001 Quality management Systems Requirements
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CONCRETE STEP BARRIER Design Guidance
Prepared for Britpave by Arup
DS/CSB/525
THE KNOWLEDGE
DS/CSB/525 CSB: Licensing and Sector Scheme
DS/CSB/525
CSB: Licensing and Sector Scheme
Britpave Riverside House, 4 Meadows Business Park, Station Approach, Blackwater, Camberley, Surrey GU17 9AB
Website www.britpave.org.uk
Facsimile 01276 33160
E-mail info@britpave.org.uk
THE KNOWLEDGE
Issue No 03
Issue Date July 09
The need for licensing
Companies that design, manufacture and supply a
component-based vehicle restraint system (such as steel
barrier) can recoup their research, development and testing
costs through the income received for the supply of their
product. In the case of an in-situ concrete product this
is not possible since the organisations that design and
test, supply and install the system are different. The only
mechanism whereby a promoter of a particular design of insitu vehicle restraint system, such as Britpave, can recoup
their research, development and testing costs is through a
licensing scheme.
Sector Schemes are managed by separate technical
advisory committees. The scheme documents are
published by United Kingdom Accreditation Services on
behalf of the technical advisory committees.
Sector Scheme documents are included in the highways
procurement processes through reference from the
Specification for Highway Works.
Full details of all current Sector Schemes are available from
the Highways Agency.
The Sector Scheme is only applicable in the United
Kingdom and where adopted by overseeing authorities.
National Highways Sector Scheme
National Highways Sector Schemes are bespoke
integrated management schemes within an BS EN ISO
90012 framework. They are developed within industry at
the request of the UK Highway Agency to interpret the
requirements of the international standard for quality
management systems as it applies to a particular activity
or product.
CONCRETE STEP BARRIER Design Guidance
Prepared for Britpave by Arup
DS/CSB/525 CSB: Licensing and Sector Scheme