Regulatory environment for tile roofing

Numerous examples and comparative tables help you find your way through the jungle of tile standards. One section is dedicated to the fourteen targets to be achieved to obtain the drastic HQE certification, before concluding with specific safety issues.

Readers are strongly encouraged to read the other articles on this complex subject of tile roofing:

• everything you need to know about repositories, terminology and existing tile models [TBA 1 836];

• identify the general principles of tile roofing [TBA 1 844];

• special cases of interlocking, slip-on or flat tiles [TBA 1 846];

• find out more about canal tiles [TBA 1 848];

• lay flat clay tiles [TBA 1 864];

• how to collect and dispose of rainwater [TBA 1 898].

In France, for roof tiles as for many other building products, a distinction is made between :

• traditional tiles ;

• non-traditional tiles.

The first, and most numerous, are subject to regulations, first for their manufacture and then for their use.

The latter – are generally new tiles, or those destined for a more limited distribution – are not standardized and are subject to special treatment.