Initiatives to improve high-rise fire safety #3
Initiative 3: The Fire Safety Mark The Fire Safety Mark initiative borrows from some great work that has been done in the food-safety industry in the UK. The Food Safety scoring scheme is a visible indication of performance that can…
Initiatives to improve high-rise fire safety #2
Initiative 2: International Stair Descend Day – 19 May 2023 Launched at the 7th International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference in May 2022, the International Stair Descend Day (ISDD) is an initiative to encourage all residents, occupants and tenants to…
7th international High Rise / Tall Building Fire Safety Conference Programme
Tall Building Fire Safety Network have announced the programme for the 7th International High Rise / Tall Building Fire Safety Conference. Taking place between 17 and 19 May 2022 at London’s Excel exhibition centre, the conference will feature many of…
SFPE, ICC and Springer announce new engineering guide on Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings
The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the world’s leading professional society for fire protection and fire safety engineering, the International Code Council (ICC), the leading global source of model building codes and standards and building safety solutions, and Springer,…
ASFP supports calls for funding to address tall-building fire-safety failings
The Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP), the UK’s leading association for the passive fire-protection sector, is supporting calls for greater funding to address identified fire-safety failings in tall buildings. The move comes following the government’s announcement of its five-point…
Testing times for tall buildings?
In the wake of The Address Downtown Dubai hotel fire and other high profile fires in tall buildings, Niall Rowan outlines the Association for Specialist Fire Protection’s initiatives to provide an affordable fire test for manufacturers of cavity barriers used…
Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings
Very tall buildings have unique fire safety design issues that are not experienced in other types of structures. For example, because the height of the structure is beyond the reach of ladders, tall buildings are equipped with more fire safety…