Active principle test
The active principle test , also written as the active principle test , is a cross-system test of the effectiveness and operational safety of safety-relevant systems to meet the required protection goals from the building regulations, with special consideration of all related technical trades , in short: test of the fire control matrix, especially with networked, “Smart” building technology in its entirety, taking into account simultaneity.
No individual systems are checked here, but the entire structural object. So z. B. the function of a fire curtain in the individual test will be successful and free of defects, but in the active principle test it turns out that the mechanical smoke extraction leads to an inflation of the curtain and thus, apart from the risk of early failure of the curtain, to a unacceptable residual gap, as a result of which certain doors in escape routes cannot be opened or can no longer perform their self-closing function after opening.
Legal requirements
The active principle test has been part of the test regulations of the federal states since 2012. Initially in Lower Saxony and Bremen , now mandatory in nine federal states. It is manifested differently in the building laws of the individual federal states. It is mentioned by name and also in its implementation in the model test ordinance: MPrüfVO; § 2 Tests: "Test experts for testing technical systems must check their effectiveness and operational safety, including the intended interaction of systems (operating principle test)."
The state of Lower Saxony uses a wording expanded to include “other systems”: § 30, regular inspection of technical systems. "(1) Technical systems in ... list of special structures ... must, if they serve to meet building regulations requirements, be checked for effectiveness and operational safety by experts within the meaning of § 1 of the Building Regulations Expert Ordinance (BauSVO) or § 5 Paragraph 1 or 4 BauSVO including the intended interaction with each other and with other systems. "
| state | regulation | Reference |
| Berlin | BetrVO: 2017-03 | Part II, Section 2, Paragraph 2 |
| Brandenburg | BbgSGPrüfV: 2016-09 | Section 2, Paragraph 1 |
| Bremen | BremAnlPrüfV: 2016-01 | Section 2, Paragraph 1 |
| Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | BauPrüfVO MV: 2016-04 | Part 4, Section 1, Section 28, Paragraph 2 |
| Lower Saxony | DVO-NBauO: 2012-09 | Section 30, Paragraph 1 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | PrüfVO NRW: 2014-09 | Part 1, § 2 (fn. 3), para. 1 |
| Saxony | SächsTechPrüfVO: 2014-11 | Section 2, Paragraph 1 |
| Saxony-Anhalt | TAnlVO: 2014-11 | Section 2, Paragraph 1 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | Test Regulation: 2014-11 | Section 2, Paragraph 1 |
Table 1: Federal states with testing obligations for the active principle test (status 12/2018)
However, the intended interaction of the individual trades of the technical building equipment (TGA) is not only important in special buildings. Networking is increasing for all building types. In many construction projects, in addition to the required fire matrix, matrices are also created in other trades, also here across the board. The majority of these matrices cannot be checked by TGA planners because they affect the processes in facilities that are not subject to building law, such as B. conveyor systems or production lines. The information from the security systems in this direction is partially understood here as a command and independent control processes are triggered. This often leads to competing control commands, which, in the event of danger, often do not bring about the desired and safety-related planned state in the controlled trades. Even systems that have no direct interfaces with one another can influence one another unfavorably.
Carrying out the active principle test
To carry out the active principle test, the operator or client can select an expert from the inspectors of the systems subject to inspection, e.g. B. appoint independent experts, those of TÜV or VdS Schadenverhütung , as leading experts. This expert defines the scenarios to be tested, if possible in coordination with the fire protection concept developer, and creates the associated test plans. The presence of all test experts as well as the experts of other systems involved is a prerequisite for the implementation of the principle of operation test. As a result, the effort involved in coordinating appointments should not be underestimated. In addition, the active principle test intervenes in the regulated process of the structural object.
Creation of test plans for the test
In preparation for the test, a detailed test plan must be drawn up for all scenarios to be tested. The fire protection concept developer uses the test plan to define the target function of all components relevant to fire protection. The tester can then easily recognize deviations from this target function during the test and record them as defects. Traditionally, these test plans were created in a very laborious transfer work in a spreadsheet program such as Excel. Various software is now available to automatically generate these plans from the fire control matrix in seconds.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Details. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
- ^ Conference of Ministers of Construction: Sample Testing Ordinance. (PDF) IS-Argebau, 2011, accessed on June 14, 2019 .
- ↑ VORIS DVO-NBauO | State standard Lower Saxony | Complete edition | General Implementing Ordinance for the Lower Saxony Building Code (DVO-NBauO) of September 26, 2012 | valid from: 01.11.2012. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
- ↑ TP. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .