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Session 1: Fire safety of Building Façades

European experts in the evaluation of the fire performance of façades. 

  • Chairman: Roy Weghorst, representing NEN, Royal Netherlands Standardization Institute.
 
  • Speeches and round table:
    • Large-scale fire tests for façades using the BS 8414 following the Grenfell fire incident in the UK. Octavian Lalu, Senior Fire Safety Scientist at BRE (United Kingdom).
 
    • Study about regulatory changes in the Netherlands after Grenfell fire, specifying the use of medium and large scale tests. Rudolf Van Mierlo, Senior Consultant Fire Safety at DGMR (The Netherlands), and Roy Weghorst, representing NEN, Royal Netherlands Standardization Institute.
 
    • Aspects of European approach to assess the fire performance of facades. Johan Anderson, Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes (Sweden).
 
    • Italian regulations for facades. Giombattista Traina, Director of Reaction to Fire Lab at Istituto Giordano (Italy).
    • Guests round table:
      • Pablo Garmendia, TECNALIA Fire Reaction Laboratory Specialist Technician.
      • Salvador Suñol, Laboratory Manager at Applus Laboratories.

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