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British Standards

Index 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]

49 relations: AC power plugs and sockets, AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types, American National Standards Institute, British telephone socket, BS 1088, BS 5400, BS 5930, BS 5950, BS 5993, BS 7671, BS 7799, BS 7910, BS 7925-1, BS 8110, BS 8494, BS 857, BS 8888, BSI Group, Building information modeling, Computer-aided design, Deutsches Institut für Normung, Geotechnical investigation, Ground (electricity), Harmonisation of law, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Institution of Engineering and Technology, ISO 3103, ISO 3166-2:GB, ISO 9000, ISO/IEC 20000, ISO/IEC 27000-series, ISO/IEC 27002, IT service management, ITIL, James Mansergh, Kitemark, Letter and digit code, List of EN standards, Mains electricity, Memorandum of understanding, PAS 777, PAS 78, Publicly Available Specification, Royal charter, Steel, Trap (plumbing), United Kingdom, Windshield.

AC power plugs and sockets

AC power plugs and sockets are devices that allow electrically operated equipment to be connected to the primary alternating current (AC) power supply in a building.

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AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types

Plugs and sockets for electrical appliances not hardwired to mains electricity originated in Britain in the 1880s and were initially two-pin designs.

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American National Standards Institute

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.

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British telephone socket

British telephone sockets were introduced in their current plug and socket form on 19 November 1981 by British Telecom to allow subscribers to connect their own telephones.

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BS 1088

In materials, BS 1088 is the British Standard specification for marine plywood that applies to plywood produced with untreated tropical hardwood veneers that have a set level of resistance to fungal attack.

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BS 5400

BS 5400 is a British Standard code of practice for the design and construction of steel, concrete and composite bridges.

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BS 5930

BS 5930:2015, "the code of practice for site investigations", is a UK code of practice which came into effect on 31 July 2015 British Standards Institution.

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BS 5950

BS 5950 is a withdrawn British Standard for the design, fabrication and erection of structural steelwork.

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BS 5993

BS 5993 is a British Standard specifying the construction details, dimensions, quality and performance of cricket balls.

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BS 7671

British Standard BS 7671 "Requirements for Electrical Installations.

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BS 7799

BS 7799 was a standard originally published by BSI Group (BSI) in 1995.

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BS 7910

BS 7910, guide to methods for assessing the acceptability of flaws in metallic structures, is a British Standard code of practice for the assessment of flaws (weld defects in particular) using fracture mechanics principles.

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BS 7925-1

BS 7925-1 was the BSI's standard glossary of software testing terms.

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BS 8110

BS 8110 is a British Standard for the design and construction of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures.

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BS 8494

BS 8494 is a 2007 British Standard for portable apparatus designed to detect and measure carbon dioxide in ambient air or extraction systems.

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BS 857

BS 857:1967 is a currently in-use British Standard specification for flat or curved safety glasses (toughened or laminated) for use in land vehicles, including road vehicles and railway vehicles.

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BS 8888

BS 8888 is the British standard developed by the BSI Group for technical product documentation, geometric product specification, geometric tolerance specification and engineering drawings.

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BSI Group

BSI Group, also known as the British Standards Institution (BSI), is the national standards body of the United Kingdom.

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Building information modeling

Building information modeling (BIM) is a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places.

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Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

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Deutsches Institut für Normung

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardization) is the German national organization for standardization and is the German ISO member body.

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Geotechnical investigation

Geotechnical investigations are performed by geotechnical engineers or engineering geologists to obtain information on the physical properties of soil and rock around a site to design earthworks and foundations for proposed structures and for repair of distress to earthworks and structures caused by subsurface conditions.

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Ground (electricity)

In electrical engineering, ground or earth is the reference point in an electrical circuit from which voltages are measured, a common return path for electric current, or a direct physical connection to the earth.

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Harmonisation of law

In relation to the European Union, harmonisation of law (or simply harmonisation) is the process of creating common standards across the internal market.

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Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements

The Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), located in Geel, Belgium, is one of the seven institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC).

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Institution of Electrical Engineers

The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE, pronounced I-E-E) was a British professional organisation of electronics, electrical, manufacturing, and Information Technology professionals, especially electrical engineers.

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Institution of Engineering and Technology

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution.

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ISO 3103

ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for brewing tea, possibly sampled by the standardized methods described in ISO 1839.

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ISO 3166-2:GB

ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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ISO 9000

The ISO 9000 family of quality management systems standards is designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service.

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ISO/IEC 20000

ISO/IEC 20000 is the first international standard for IT service management.

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ISO/IEC 27000-series

The ISO/IEC 27000-series (also known as the 'ISMS Family of Standards' or 'ISO27K' for short) comprises information security standards published jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

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ISO/IEC 27002

ISO/IEC 27002 is an information security standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), titled Information technology – Security techniques – Code of practice for information security controls.

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IT service management

IT service management (ITSM) refers to the entirety of activities – directed by policies, organized and structured in processes and supporting procedures – that are performed by an organization to design, plan, deliver, operate and control information technology (IT) services offered to customers.

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ITIL

ITIL (formerly an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a set of detailed practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business.

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James Mansergh

James Mansergh FRS (29 Apr 1834 – 15 Jun 1905) was an English civil engineer.

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Kitemark

The Kitemark is a UK product and service quality certification mark which is owned and operated by The British Standards Institution (BSI Group).

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Letter and digit code

The letter and digit code for resistance and capacitance values and tolerances, which is also known as RKM code or "R notation", is a notation to specify resistor and capacitor values defined in the international standard IEC 60062 (formerly IEC 62) since 1952.

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List of EN standards

Standards (abbreviated ENs owing to the more literal translation from French/German as European Norms) maintained by CEN (European Committee for Standardization), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute).

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Mains electricity

Mains electricity (as it is known in the UK; US terms include grid power, wall power, and domestic power) is the general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply.

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Memorandum of understanding

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is a type of agreement between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) parties.

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PAS 777

PAS 777:2013 is a Publicly Available Specification published by the British Standards Institution in October 2013 entitled “Specification for the qualification and labelling of used automotive engines and any related transmission units”.

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PAS 78

PAS 78: Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites is a Publicly Available Specification published on March 8, 2006 by the British Standards Institution (BSI) in collaboration with the Disability Rights Commission (DRC).

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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.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Trap (plumbing)

In plumbing, a trap is a device which has a shape that uses a bending path to capture water to prevent sewer gases from entering buildings, while allowing waste to pass through.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Windshield

The windshield (North America) or windscreen (Commonwealth English) of an aircraft, car, bus, motorbike or tram is the front window.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standards

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