Experts and fire-fighters explained the increasing risk from smoke in fire in modern buildings, because of new materials, green building and furnishings, in a webinar organised as part of European Fire Safety Week 2020 (160 participants). Patrick van Hees, Lund...
Members of the European Parliament say fire risks of green buildings and renovation must be addressed. Željana Zovko, MEP, said the energy transition must be safe. Green buildings have more electrical installations, increasing fire risk. The European Parliament has...
A webinar with experts and regulators underlined the complexity of smoke toxicity, showing that regulation of fire toxicity emissions of construction products is currently neither feasible nor appropriate. Sirpa Pietikäinen MEP, underlined the need to avoid increasing...
UN-ECE’s adoption of the International Fire Safety Standard – Common Principles is a major step for building fire safety. The new standard was developed by the International Fire Safety Standards Coalition (https://ifss-coalition.org/) and covers legislation, codes or...
A survey of over 830 architects in 8 EU countries shows the fire safety experts are involved in only 1/3 of building projects, varying from 25% in Poland to 69% in Germany. This is lower than the 45% of projects in which architects involve energy experts. Fire experts...
