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.