Yosr Melki, Knauf Insulation

Yosr Melki, Knauf Insulation

Keeping people safe is critical for all buildings. She calls for wide value chain cooperation to integrate sustainable construction and fire safety, engaging design engineers and architects, materials suppliers, the construction industry, as well as researchers and...
Fanny Guay, PAROC

Fanny Guay, PAROC

Industry wants European standards, to facilitate placing on the market and to ensure demanding levels of fire safety. The EU has regulatory tools which can support this, in particular the Construction Products Directive and the Energy Performance in Buildings...
Research gaps for integrating fires into LCA

Research gaps for integrating fires into LCA

A Fire Safety Journal article and a thesis from Oregon State University find little existing science and identifies research and data gaps. Of nearly 100 publications identified, most concern research methodology, pollutions following exceptional fire events or...
Data on environmental emissions from fires

Data on environmental emissions from fires

New report analyses emissions from fires, susceptible to have health or environmental impacts, with an Emission Factor database for 90 materials. The US NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation (FPRF) report, and downloadable Excel data base (see links below) follows...
Review of environmental impacts of fires

Review of environmental impacts of fires

NFPA-funded study proposes framework for quantifying environmental impact of fires and identifies research gaps. As above, most of the c. 60 references concern environmental impacts of wildfires or of major fire incidents, fire statistics reports or ISO methodologies....