Compliance
The standards behind the ratings
Doors are regulated products. A door's rating — fire, smoke, airtightness, hygiene — only means something when it is tested to a recognised standard, and in India the applicable standards span Indian (IS, NBC), European (EN) and international (ISO) documents depending on the project, the authority having jurisdiction and the client's specification. This guide explains the standards Egis Enterprises designs and tests to, in plain language.
If you are writing a tender or a door schedule, the fastest path is to name the performance and the standard together — for example, 'hermetic sliding door, airtightness Class 4 to EN 12207' or 'fire door, EI60 to EN 1634-1'. Egis can map these to IS/NBC equivalents where the approving authority requires it.
IS 3614
Fire Doors — IS 3614:2021
IS 3614 is the Indian Standard for fire-check doors, covering their construction, testing and performance. The 2021 revision modernised the standard, aligning its fire-resistance testing approach with current practice. In India, fire-door requirements for a building flow from the National Building Code and the local fire authority — IS 3614 is the standard those authorities reference for what a fire door must be.
When a project specifies fire doors to IS 3614, the key parameters are the fire-resistance duration (commonly 60 or 120 minutes for compartmentation), integrity and insulation performance, and the tested assembly — leaf, frame, seals and hardware together. A fire rating applies to the complete assembly as tested, never to a leaf alone.
Egis' FireShield H60 is tested to EN 1634-1 (the European fire-resistance test for doors) achieving EI60. For Indian projects, Egis maps EN-tested performance to the IS 3614 framework and advises on the approval path with the authority having jurisdiction — because what matters on site is not the certificate's origin but its acceptance by the approver.
Relevant to
- FireShield H60 fire-rated hermetic door
- Compartment walls in hospitals and commercial buildings
- Tender specifications referencing IS 3614
NBC 2016
National Building Code 2016 — Fire & Life Safety
The National Building Code of India (NBC 2016), Part 4 — Fire and Life Safety — sets the framework for compartmentation, escape routes and fire-door provision in Indian buildings. It defines where fire separations are required, what ratings they need, and how doors in escape routes must behave (self-closing, smoke-sealing, unobstructed).
For door specification, NBC 2016 matters in two ways: it drives which walls need fire doors and at what rating, and it sets expectations for door hardware on escape routes. Hospital projects additionally navigate NABH accreditation requirements, which reference controlled environments and infection control — the domain of hermetic doors.
Egis supports NBC-driven specification by mapping each door in the schedule to its required performance: fire rating where the Code demands compartmentation, smoke rating where escape routes need tenability, and airtightness where clinical or clean-room function demands it.
Relevant to
- Hospital and commercial fire strategies
- Escape-route door specification
- NABH-aligned hospital projects
ISO 14644
Cleanrooms — ISO 14644
ISO 14644 is the international standard series for cleanrooms and associated controlled environments. Part 1 classifies air cleanliness by particle concentration (ISO Class 1–9); other parts cover testing, monitoring and operational discipline. Pharma facilities in India design to ISO 14644 alongside Schedule M / GMP requirements.
Doors affect classification in two ways: they must not shed particles themselves (flush, sealed, non-shedding surfaces), and they must protect the pressure cascade between grades (sealed perimeters, interlocked airlocks). A door with applied trims, exposed cores or leaky perimeters is a classification risk regardless of how well the HVAC performs.
Egis' clean-room range — PureSwing and PureSlide hygienic doors with interlocked airlock pairs — is detailed for ISO 14644 environments: flush faces, sealed edges, stainless hardware, and airlock logic that protects the cascade. For Grade B and sterile areas, the HermaSeal Class 4 hermetic range provides the tightest envelope.
Relevant to
- PureSwing P60, PureSlide L80 hygienic doors
- Interlocked airlock pairs
- ISO Class 5–8 (Grade B–D) facilities
EN 12207 / EN 1026
Airtightness — EN 12207 & EN 1026
EN 1026 is the test method for air permeability of windows and doors; EN 12207 classifies the result from Class 1 to Class 4, with Class 4 the tightest. The test measures air leakage at defined pressure differentials — it is a measurement, not a claim.
For hermetic doors, Class 4 is the meaningful target: it means the door leaks the least air of any classified operable door, which is what operating theatres, isolation rooms and cleanrooms need to hold their pressure cascades. Egis' HermaSeal range is type-tested to EN 1026 and achieves Class 4 under EN 12207.
Note the distinction from smoke testing (EN 1634-3) and fire testing (EN 1634-1): a door can be airtight without being fire-rated, and fire-rated without being airtight. The FireShield H60 is both, tested to each standard for its respective performance.
Relevant to
- HermaSeal S100 / S200 Pro hermetic doors
- Operating theatres, isolation rooms
- Pressure-cascade design
EN 13241
Industrial Doors — EN 13241
EN 13241 is the European product standard for industrial, commercial and garage doors, covering safety in use: crushing, shearing and impact hazards, and the safety devices that mitigate them. It is the reference standard Egis designs its powered industrial doors to.
In practice this means the RapidRoll R600 high-speed door carries layered safety — presence detection, light curtains, soft bottom edges — as designed-in systems rather than add-ons, and that the safety logic is commissioned, not assumed.
Relevant to
- RapidRoll R600 high-speed door
- Powered-door safety specification
EN 16005
Powered Pedestrian Doors — EN 16005
EN 16005 is the European safety standard for powered pedestrian door sets — the automatic sliding doors in hospital entrances, clean corridors and commercial lobbies. It defines the required safety functions: presence detection, force limitation, and safe behavior on power failure.
Egis' automatic sliding doors — healthcare, clean-room and commercial — are specified with safety to EN 16005: radar and infrared activation with presence detection, force-limited drives, and defined safe states. Safety is commissioned on site as part of installation.
Relevant to
- Automatic sliding doors (healthcare, clean-room, commercial)
- Hospital entrances and corridors
AERB
Radiation Safety — AERB Guidelines
In India, X-ray installations are regulated by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). Room shielding — including doors — follows the shielding design prepared under AERB guidelines, accounting for equipment workload, energy, layout and occupancy.
The door's role is to provide its specified lead equivalence (typically 1–3 mm Pb) with no gaps at the frame, and to interlock with the room's warning and exposure circuits. Egis' RadGuard X3 is built to the specified equivalence and provides the door-closed proving output that radiation safety design requires.
Relevant to
- RadGuard X3 lead-lined door
- X-ray, cath-lab, radiotherapy suites
Compliance FAQs
IS 3614:2021 is the Indian Standard for fire-check doors, and fire-door requirements flow from NBC 2016 Part 4 (Fire and Life Safety) plus the local fire authority. European-tested doors (EN 1634-1) are widely used in Indian projects; Egis maps EN-tested performance to the IS/NBC framework and advises on the approval path.
EN 12207 Class 4 is the tightest air-permeability classification for operable doors, based on measured leakage per EN 1026. It is the standard target for hermetic doors serving operating theatres, isolation rooms and cleanrooms.
CE marking indicates conformity with EU directives for products placed on the European market. For Indian projects, what matters is the test standard and the approving authority's acceptance — Egis supplies test documentation for the standards each project actually requires.
The authority having jurisdiction (fire authority, AERB for radiation, the client's validation team for pharma) and the project specification. Egis advises at tender stage on the applicable standards for each door in the schedule.
Writing a tender or door schedule? Talk to Egis engineering — we map each door in your schedule to the performance and standard your approving authority actually requires.