EVS-EN 16005:2023

EN 16005 specifies requirements regarding design and test methods for power-operated pedestrian doorsets. Examples of how the doorset constructions may be operated include: electro-mechanically, electro-hydraulically, electro-magnetically or pneumatically. It covers safety in the use of power-operated pedestrian doorsets used for normal access as well as in emergency and escape routes and as fire resistance or smoke control doorsets. The type of doorsets covered include power-operated pedestrian sliding, swing and revolving doorsets, including balanced doorsets and folding doorsets with a horizontally moving door leaf.

EN 16005 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to power-operated doorsets when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse. All lifetime phases of the power-operated pedestrian doorsets including transportation, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping are considered by EN 16005.

This standard does not apply to:

— vertically moving doors,

— doors on lifts,

— doors on vehicles,

— power-operated doors or gates mainly intended for vehicular traffic or access for goods,

— doors used in industrial processes,

— partition walls,

— doors outside the reach of people (such as crane gantry fences),

— turnstiles,

— platform doors,

— traffic barriers.