Pre-Conference Seminars*
*Additional registration fee required; discounted when bundled with conference registration.
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| Understanding Human Behavior in Fire, 7-11 March 2022 |
| Introduction to Performance-Based Design and Regulation in Europe, 14-18 March 2022 |
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Conference Day 1: Wednesday, 23 March
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0700-0800
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Lobby Area Open
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0800-0815
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Welcome and Opening Remarks, Beth Tubbs, 2022 SFPE President
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0815-0900
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General Session: Keynote Presentation – Genesis and Findings from Three Office Compartment Fire Experiments with Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) Slabs, Danny Hopkin
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Track A: Mass Timber
Moderator: Karl Wallasch
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Track B: Building Envelope
Moderator: Faimeen Shah
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Track C: Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
Moderator: Brian Ashe
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0900-0930
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Exposed Mass Timber through the Lens of the Canadian Regulatory Framework, Kieran Ager
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Experimental Study on Fire Performance of Ventilated Façade System with Combustible Thermal Insulation and Exterior Cladding, Dharmit Nakrani
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The Development of a Performance-Based Design Framework and its Application to Wildfire Engineering at the Wildland-Urban Interface, Andres Valencia
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0930-1000
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Large-Scale Fire Tests of Hybrid Mass Timber and Steel Compartments for Commercial Use Buildings, Louis Chaumont
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Insulation Pyrolysis for Sandwich Panel Fire-Structure Simulations, Qingfeng Xu
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Case study on a Performance-Based Approach to Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires, Paulo Ramos
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1000-1045
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Networking Event: Trivia
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1045-1130
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Case Study Presentations:
- SFPE Australia Chapter
- SFPE British Columbia Chapter
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Track A: Numerical Simulations
Moderator: Peter Senez
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Track B: Building Envelope
Moderator: Faimeen Shah
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Track C: PBD and the Environment
Moderator: Brian Ashe
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1130-1200
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Numerical Simulations of Reaction-to-fire of Innovative Timber Construction, Ranjith Nandish
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Modeling the Fire Dynamics Along A Building Façade, Sachin Kumar Rai
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Fire Safety and Climate Impact from a Life Cycle Analysis Perspective, Carl Pettersson and Martin Johanson
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1200-1230
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Comparing Numerical Modelling of the Thermal Insulation of Intumescent Layers, Caimao Luo, Michael Mason, and Cristian Maluk
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External LSF walls exposed to fire – Review of NCC Provisions and Fire Resistance Tests, Jashnav Pancheti
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Fire Safety of Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems: Regulatory Gaps for Solar Façades, Yoon Ko
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1230-1245
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Break
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1245-1330
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General Session: Practitioner Tools – A Snapshot of Current Use, Gaps and Needs, Colleen Wade
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1330-1415
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Networking Event: Technical Roundtables led by Program Committee Members
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Conference Day 2: Thursday, 24 March
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0800-0845
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General Session: Expanding the Adoption of Performance-Based Structural Fire Design in the US, Rob Chmielowski, Robert Solomon and Amit Varma
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Track A: Structural Fire Engineering
Moderator: Mike Crowley
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Track B: Evacuation
Moderator: Lucia Ortega
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Track C: Monitoring Performance
Moderator: Debbie Scott
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0845-0915
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Reliability-Based Structural Design for “Earth, Wind, and Fire”, Kevin LaMalva
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Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now: Evacuation Model User Bug Classification & Debugging, Michael Kinsey, Steve Gwynne and Enrico Ronchi
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An Introduction to Fire Performance Monitoring for Buildings, Honggang Wang
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0915-0945
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Seismic and Fire Performance Assessment of Structural Components: The EQUFIRE PROJECT, Marco Antonelli
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Crowd Density in Open-Air Public Spaces: New Perspectives from the Application of Forensic Engineering to Piazza San Carlo Tragedy in Turin, 2017, Ada Malagnino
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Artificial Intelligent Method and Software for Building Fire Safety Performance-Based Design, Xinyan Huang
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0945-1030
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Networking Event Poster Presentations:
- A Comparison of Zone and Field Model for the Probalistic Simulation of NIST Kitchen Fire, Iffah Umairah Zulmajdi, Student Research Grant, May 2021 * Supported by the SFPE Foundation
- AI-Based Decision-Making Tool for Firefighters’ Safety, Aatif Alikhan, Mustesin Ali Khan, Asif Usmani, Hong Kong
- A Numerical Investigation of Carbon Monoxide Evolution from Smouldering for the Performance-Based Fire Engineering Design, Cheung Wai Kit, Hong Kong
- Design a Smart Fire Monitoring System for High-Risk Facilities, Tianhang Zhang, Zilong Wang, Yanfu Zeng, Xinyan Huang, Hong Kong
- Fire Safety of Traditional Settlements of Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China, Hongli Ruan, Ting Xia, Yu Wang, Hefei Student Chapter, Hefei, China
- Integrated Simulation of Complex Structures in Fire, Mhd Anwar Orabi, Astif Alikhan, Liming Jiang, Asif Usmani, Hong Kong
- The Effect of Dynamic Signages on Evacuation Performance in Tunnel Fires, Yuxin Zhang, Shanghai Chapter
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1030-1115
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Case Study Presentations:
- SFPE United Kingdom Chapter
- SFPE Switzerland Chapter
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Track A: Structural Fire Engineering
Moderator: Mike Crowley
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Track B: Evacuation
Moderator: Lucia Ortega
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Track C: Smoke Detection & Management
Moderator: Joseph Vaughn
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1115-1145
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Performance-Based Design Using the Structural Fire Engineering Approach from ASCE-7-16 Appendix E–Recent Case Studies, Qianru Guo and Ricardo A. Medina
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Performance-Based Design of Primary Schools: Presenting a Methodology for Modelling Evacuation, Glenn Hamilton
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How to Detect Fires in the Earliest Phase-Research on the Dispersion Behaviour of Fire Parameters, Sebastian Festag
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1145-1215
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Modeling Fire Spread in Large Compartments using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Ann Jeffers
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Evacuation Behaviour: An Evaluation of Egress Door Efficiency, Jane Gachuche
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The Results of the Research of the Pressure Drop Characteristics in Stairwells and Use of These Values to Design Pressure Differential Systems of High-Rise Buildings, Izabela Tekielak-Skałka
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1215-1230
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Break
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1230-1315
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General Session: The Continued Contribution of SFPE to Implementing Performance-Based Fire Safety Design, Greg Baker
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1315-1400
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Networking Event: Careers and Employment as a Fire Protection Engineer
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Conference Day 3: Friday, 25 March
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0800-0845
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General Session: A Sociotechnical Systems Framework for Performance-Based Design for Fire Safety, Brian Meacham
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Track A: Practice Issues in PBD
Moderator: Y. J. (IJsbrand) van Straalen
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Track B: Fire Dynamics
Moderator: Kieran Ager
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Track C: Unique Egress Strategies
Moderator: Axel Mossberg
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0845-0915
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Design: The Missing Link in Performance-Based Design, Peter Johnson
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On the Study of the Three-Dimensional Region of a Multi-Scale Methodology for Tunnel Fires, Diego Alvarez-Coedo
* Supported by the SFPE Foundation
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Single Stair Office Buildings – How Tall is Safe? Karl Wallasch, David Bostelmann, and Boris Stock
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0915-0945
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How Safe is Safe Enough? Are we too Safe? Is PBD becoming an Academic Exercise? A UK Perspective, Nigel Hiorns
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Outlining the Limitations of Flashover Correlations in Engineering Applications, David Morrisset
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Evacuation Analysis of Single Stair High-Rise Buildings with Interim Measures in Place, Gareth Jones and Kevin Day
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0945-1030
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Networking Event: Regional Experiences
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1030-1115
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Case Study Presentations:
- SFPE Japan Chapter
- SFPE New Zealand Chapter
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Track A: Risk Assessment
Moderator: Tobias Salomonsson
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Track B: Fire Dynamics
Moderator: Debbie Scott
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Track C: AI and Modeling
Moderator: Saskia Holditch
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1115-1145
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A Perspective in Adopting Quantitative Risk Criteria in the Australian National Construction Code, Michael Beecroft
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Effect of Ventilation Conditions on Externally Venting Flames Development on Curvilinear Geometries, Anoop Warrier
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How Machine Learning Can Help Facilitate Data-Driven Fire Fighting, Wai Cheong Tam
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1145-1215
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Probabilistic Approach to Assess the Fire Risk for an Urban Cable Car Installation, Julien Duboc
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Quantifying Statistical Uncertainty of Furniture-scale Fire Testing, David Morrisset and Ian Ojwang
* Supported by the SFPE Foundation
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Reconstruction of Structural Loss in a Recent Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire, Babak Bahrani and Chris Lautenberger
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1215-1230
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Break
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1230 -1300
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Proulx Scholarship Presentation: An Investigation of the Microscopic Characteristics of Individuals Walking in a Crowd, Hossein Tavanarezaei
* Supported by the SFPE Foundation
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1300-1345
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General Session: Fire Engineering in Australia - Opportunities and Challenges, Brian Ashe
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1345 -1350
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Closing Remarks and Invitation to 2024, Beth Tubbs
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1350 -1430
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Networking Event: The Future of PBD - What's Next?
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Post-Conference Seminars*
*Additional registration fee required; discounted when bundled with conference registration.
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Fire and Life Safety Design of Very Tall Buildings: Challenges and Strategies, 28 March - 1 April 2022
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Advanced Fire Dynamic Simulator with PyroSim and Smokeview, 4-29 April 2022
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