Resilience & Sustainability
Increasing efforts to build and live in sustainable ways and to improve the resilience of communities against environmental challenges, including fire events, open up new areas of research. Representative topics in this area include:
- Building Material/Practices
- Assessing fire hazards of new building materials/practices
- Data on:
- Combustibility of external cladding systems
- Fire loads for structural fire engineering
- Effectiveness of existing/new fire safety solutions
- Structural FP performance
- Quantification of structural fire resilience
- Post-fire seismic behavior
- Adequacy of passive fire resistive construction
- Standardized/accepted approach for developing material properties
- Retardant behavior
- Building material properties as inputs for fire models
- Best practices/Guidelines
- Best practices for retrofitting existing buildings to achieve equivalent levels of safety (and sustainability)
- Development of design tools/best practices for fire safety engineering for resilient systems/buildings
- Corrosion protection design best practices
- Guidelines on suppression effectiveness at various heights
- Lessons learned to reduce risks in developing countries
- Fire risk
- Fire risks in new (public) transport technologies
- Development of risk-based analysis to compare hazards of fire to long-term health impacts of fire mitigation measures
- Risk assessment/management systems
- Evaluate fire hazards of flammable refrigerants
- Risk- and reliability-based methods for ITM of fire protection systems
- Preventative and predictive maintenance
- Human impact on ITM reliability
- Reliability of installed equipment
- Fire protection design
- Identify/quantify sustainability benefits of smoke control systems and natural ventilation
- Life expectancy of installed fire protection systems
- Evaluation of
- Smoke control systems impact on reduction of risk of losses
- Adequacy of passive fire resistive construction
- Effectiveness of fire stop installation by multiple trades versus certified technicians
- Life quality indices to assess FP performance
- Cost-effective and resilient FP practices for developing countries
- FP System design
- Environmental impact of fire testing
- Demographics
- Vulnerable populations
- Anthropometry
- Cultural differences
- Quantification of building code performance data
- Naturally occurring events
- Rate, severity
- Fire as a secondary impact
- Effect of firefighting interventions on occupant risk
- Tools to evaluate impact of ventilation on compartment fires