The recent fires in Grenfell Tower (London) and The Torch (Dubai) have highlighted the issues of design, build, management, and firefighting for tall buildings, say organisers of the fifth International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference. It runs on June 19 to 21, 2018 at Excel, London alongside the annual FIREX exhibition next door to the IFSEC security show. Day one will consider design and fire engineering in tall buildings, including fire testing of cladding systems; day two, management and insurance of fire risk in tall buildings, including construction and refurbishment; and day three will consider firefighting.
This will be followed on Friday, June 22 by a Tall Building Firefighting Summit. The objective; to bring together fire chiefs and firefighters from around the world to discuss the ‘state of the art’. The event will be free to serving firefighters and seek to develop procedures for Tall Buildings.
Meanwhile, the next Institution of Fire Engineers Recognised Tall Building Fire Safety Management Course will take place at The Shard, London, UK on December 11 to 15, 2017. Other dates in the UK: January 15-19, 2018, Birmingham; February 19-23, London; March 19-23, Manchester; and May 21-25, London. Courses are also scheduled in Australia, in Perth on October 9-13; and in Melbourne on October 16-20 and Sydney, October 23-27.
The course seeks to address the issues raised by Grenfell Tower. Delivered over five days in existing tall buildings, the course covers:
• Prevention, including; case studies, fire risk assessment, management systems
• Detection and Alarm, cause and effect, maintenance, degraded systems, false alarms
• Escape, evacuation strategies, lifts, disabled escape, wayfinding, car parks
• Containment, passive barriers, steel protection, sprinklers, construction work
• Firefighting, fire statistics, fire growth, firefighting techniques, wind driven fires.
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