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British Standards. British Standards (BS) are the standards produced by the BSI Group which is incorporated under a royal charter and which is formally designated as the national standards body (NSB) for the UK. [1] The BSI Group produces British Standards under the authority of the charter, which lays down as one of the BSI's objectives to: [2]
BSI Group headquarters building in Gunnersbury, West London, featuring the BSI Group logo. BSI was founded as the Engineering Standards Committee in London in 1901. [5] [2] 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. [2]
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.
BS 1363 is a British Standard which specifies the common single-phase AC power plugs and sockets that are used in the United Kingdom. Distinctive characteristics of the system are shutters on the line and neutral socket holes, and a fuse in the plug. It has been adopted in many former British overseas territories.
BS 8888 is the British standard developed by the BSI Group for technical product documentation, geometric product specification, geometric tolerance specification and engineering drawings. [ 1 ] History
Publicly Available Specification. A Publicly Available Specification or PAS is a standardization document that closely resembles a formal standard in structure and format but which has a different development model. [1] The objective of a Publicly Available Specification is to speed up standardization. PASs are often produced in response to an ...
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