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…
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…