Webinar: Integrating WUI Risk Management into the Fire Safety Engineering Practice - Challenges & Opportunities
March 3 | Presenter: Pascale Vacca, PhD, CERTEC
As Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires are posing great management challenges in terms of civil protection and fire loss mitigation, the creation of fire-adapted communities that can safely co-exist with wildfires has become a growing necessity. This 2026 WUI Fire Engineering Summit pre-conference webinar covers how Fire Safety Engineers can contribute to enhance WUI fire safety and resilience in alignment with the Disaster Risk Management cycle, along with existing methodologies when it comes to quantitative WUI fire risk assessment, which are applied to a case study located at the WUI of the city of Barcelona (Spain).
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WUI Codes and Standards in Global Perspective: A Panel Discussion from Australia, United States, and Canada
May 26 | Moderator: Shamim Rashid-Sumar, PE, SFPE President
Panelists:
Noureddine Bénichou, National Research Council of Canada
Alexander Filkov, University of Melbourne
Justice Jones, International Code Council
As Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires grow more common across the globe, prescriptive codes and standards play a role in reducing risk to communities. This 2026 WUI Fire Engineering Summit pre-conference webinar will highlight codes and standards in Australia (Construction of Buildings in Bushfire-Prone Areas), United States (International Wildland-Urban Interface Code), and Canada (National Guide for Wildland-Urban Interface Fires). Moderated by SFPE President Shamim Rashid-Sumar, a panel of experts from around the globe will share perspectives on WUI codes and the regulatory environment.
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Additional Pre-Summit Webinars will be scheduled soon.