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Fire Safety Engineering in Europe - Opportunities and Challenges
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ISO 13943 "Application of engineering methods based on scientific principles to the development or assessment of designs in the built environment through the analysis of specific fire scenarios or through the quantification of risk for a group of fire scenarios"
Or simply, an advanced method for alternative fire safety design, often used when deviating from prescriptive code
- Changing societal needs, e.g. environmental concern
- New technology & innovation
- Cost-efficiency
- Modern architecture
75 coworkers
Specialist on regulations and FSE
Led revision of Swedish FSE-regulations
Vice president of SFPE Sweden
Active in SFPE Europe
Leading international fire research institute
Michael Strömgren
SP Fire Technology, Lund, Sweden
Fire Safety Engineering in Europe
Opportunities & Challenges
Many differences!
Also, cultural differences
Compromising takes time
Ensuring compliance - all the way
Keeping up research
What's next?
A common approach in Europe opens new business opportunities
- Harmonization of products and services - free trade
Several countries are open for support
- Education
- Certification
- Guidelines
What is FSE?
Strong trend
- new educations
- regulatory options
- # of practitioners
SFPE Europe
European standardization
- European coordination group
- supporting new chapters
- status in Europe
- models for education,
qualification, guidelines?
- FSE prioritised
- Specification (slowly) underway
- CEN Technical Committe 127 /
Task Group 1 (TC127/TG1)
Where are we now?
Education
Legal (and practical) allowance of FSE
Why bother?
Countries allowing FSE by year
1975: Iceland
1985: England
Making FSE work
1994: Sweden, Belgium
1997: Norway, Finland
Different objectives & requirements
Low number of practitioners
230 SFPE members
Few countries have national guidelines
International guidelines are often used
2002: Switzerland, Germany
2004: Denmark, France
2005: Scotland
Qualified practitioners
2006: Spain
Regulatory framework
& guidelines
2007: Italy
Research
Thank you!
More information at my SP-blog:
http://bit.ly/firesafetyengineering
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