Structure fires crisis mitigation, prevention and protection

Objectives

• exchanging views across borders,
• analysing the gaps in the tools they need to operate
• prioritising future R&D efforts

Main areas

The structure fires group will tackle the mission of extinguishing, mitigate the risk of, prevent and protect from fires involving any man-made building and structure.

Challenges to be tackled include:

Mitigation: real time intelligent warning systems; situational awareness with regard to location of people (outdoors and indoors); trustworthy fire and fire product (e.g. smoke plume ) propagation models; kit needed to safely counteract critical fires into confined spaces and high rises.

Prevention: improving emergency procedures through better understanding human behaviour; scenario building for fire and fire product propagation; impact of extinguishing systems; human behaviour simulation;

Protection: predicting fire behaviour over different materials and using different extinguishing systems; energy efficiency; fire safe building materials; intelligent fire detection systems; integration of intelligent exit signs with real time simulation of fire propagation based on detector’s data.

Download the "Policy Brief Structures Fires"  produced by the TWG leaders, in coordination with other partners and associated experts