Agenda

Lecture Ruud van Herpen:  Sprinkler protection as boundary condition for a stay-in-place concept.

Normally we evacuate a whole building in case of a compartment fire. Apparently the fire compartmentation and the fire resistant load bearing structure is not reliable enough to evacuate the burning compartment only and leave the building users in other compartments in their compartments. However, building users are more often less self reliant and can’t evacuate on their own. Sometimes the internal organization can be helpful, but the time they need for evacuating the building users exceeds in many cases the available safe time. The failure probability of an evacuation concept might not be acceptable in these cases. A stay-in-place concept is probably more realistic. However, for a reliable stay-in-place concept smoke propagation and fire spread outside the burning compartment is nog acceptable. Sprinkler protection can really help to reduce these risks.

Workshop Pim van Rede and Ruud van Herpen about fire simulations in CFD and zone models of the experiments in Oudewater, conducted by NIPV

Announcement of the winner of the NIPV-VVBA Thesis Contest in Fire Safety

And many other lectures and workshops

For information and sign in:

https://nipv.nl/evenement/congress-fire-safety-science-2022/

Lezing van Ruud van Herpen over het brandrisico van kruislaaghout in de woningbouw. CLT of kruislaaghout draagt bij aan de brandstof (of vuurlast) in een brandcompartiment. De kans op ene afbrandscenario neemt toe ten opzichte van traditionele bouwwijzen. Wat betekent de kortere levensduur voor duurzaamheid? En wat zouden we moeten doen om dat te voorkomen?

De sprekers zijn Boele Staal (Federatie Veilig Nederland), Hajé van Egmond (Geregeld), Ruud van Herpen (Fellow Fire Safety Engineering Tu/e), Richard Hoyer (CIBV), Ronald Oldengarm (DGMR), Christiaan Huijbreghs (Acuro), Hans Sevenstern (Marsh Netherlands), Tom Roche (FM Global) en
Lieuwe de Witte (Nederlands Instituut Publieke Veiligheid). Dagvoorzitter: Wim Haan.

Lezing Ruud van Heroen over sprinklerbeveiliging als automatische detectie in parkeergarages. Daardoor kan een separate detectie achterwege blijven, maar daar moeten wel voorwaarden aan worden gesteld.