To understand which measures can potentially affect the number of people killed in house fires, there are mainly two different approaches. The first is to study the risk groups, identify risk factors and attack them. The second approach is to study the protection factors, ie the factors that caused a fire to be prevented, minimized, […]
Green roofing alternatives are something that has increased in popularity in the construction industry in recent years and the demand for green roofs is constantly growing. The green roofs entail several benefits from an environmental point of view and therefore give high points in most environmental classification systems that many construction projects now use. From […]
Fire protection requirements are important to ensure good fire safety and a prerequisite is that the requirements are complied with. There are clear indications that compliance with rules and other requirements is neglected, but there is no national picture of this problem. This report provides suggestions for suitable methods to be able to follow up […]
The use of ethanol has increased dramatically, which also means a more extensive storage in, for example, large tanks. Although cistern fires are unusual, history shows that firefighting against all identified fires in ethanol cisterns has failed and instead resulted in total damage.
This report summarises the results of a project which was intended to study the response of hollow core and prestressed concrete construction exposed to fire. Two fires in the past 12 years highlighted the susceptibility of this type of construction to fire, a car park fire in Rotterdam and a department store fire in Vantaa. […]
The study showed that the ad hoc tests with roof and fire plume scenarios were not clearly more decisive in terms of adhesion than the standardized test. But in these tests it is possible to characterize and regulate the flow around the specimens in a much better way than in standardized furnace tests where this […]
The data shows that the thermal properties of the surrounding structures have a great impact on the fire temperature development and on the fire exposure to the walls. The differences are also observed depending on how temperatures are probed, using PTs or TCs. The various measurements make the data series very useful for validation of […]
The purely fire technical problem regarding double glass facades is that the design can involve an increased risk of fire spreading between the storeys if a flame bursts through a glass section in the inner facade and then does not go through the outer facade but breaks the glass in the inner facade on the […]
Today, computer models are often used to simulate human evacuation. One problem is that these models are often based on old data, ie data from the 60s and 70s. In addition, this data is seldom particularly detailed, which makes it difficult to further develop today’s computer-based evacuation models. There is therefore a need to collect […]
The primary goal of the project has been to increase knowledge about human performance during evacuation upwards in long stairs (including stationary escalators) and to produce new data as a basis for evacuation modeling. Through literature studies and experiments, walking speeds and physical exhaustion were studied, among other things. The new data reported are judged […]