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Coordinator

João Paulo Correia Rodrigues, Coimbra University, Portugal

Noureddine Benichou, NRC – National Research Council Canada, Canada – Information Contact

Objectives and Scopes:

The objective of CIB W014 are:

  • to provide an ongoing research focus and promote international collaboration for the development of a sound technical basis for fire safety engineering (FES) method
  • to promote fire safety engineering methods and their use with performance based codes
  • to support the evolution of the fire design codes
  • to provide fire safety technology input to the other CIB Commissions as appropriate
  • to exchange fire safety engineering outputs internationally including the standards community.

To meet those objectives CIB W014:

  • launches projects with well-defined scopes and limited time schedules
  • publishes the output of its work as CIB Publications, in international journals and workshop or conference proceedings
  • provides a forum for networking among its members
  • organizes workshops with topics in the context of the work program
  • initiates the CIB co-sponsorship of conferences and congresses that serve the purpose of the commission
  • facilitates its members to circulate information on ongoing and completed research projects and research publications
  • liaises with organizations that have similar interests.

Current Work Programme:

For the near future the commission’s Work Program will include the following Working Groups:

  • WG1 – Structures and Materials at High Temperatures
  • WG2 – Systems, Installations and Equipment of Fire Safety
  • WG3 – Performance Based Regulations and Standards

They will be created other WGs following these ones.

Planned Output:

  • publication of research roadmaps on topics of each Working Group
  • publication of IFireSS proceedings
  • publication of thematic issues in scientific magazines
  • publication of handbooks on different fire safety topics

External Relations:

CIB W014 cooperates with:

  • ISO – International Organization for Standardization
  • NFPA – National Fire Protection Association
  • SFPE – Society for Fire Protection Engineers
  • ALBRASCI – Luso-Brazilian Association for Fire Safety
  • Many Others

Membership:

Members of this Working Commission are appointed Representatives of CIB Member Organizations and Individual CIB Members.