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Tall Building Fire Safety Network

3rd International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference

University of Greenwich, London

8, 9, 10th July 2015

Conference Programme and Delegate Information V7

Contents:

1. Sponsors, Speakers and Supporters

2. Tall Building Fire Safety Network

3. Conference Agenda

4. Speaker Profiles

5. Social Programme

6. Conference Location & Travel

7. Hotels

8. Help?

1. Conference Speakers, Sponsors and Supporters

2. Tall Building Fire Safety Network

Mission Statement:

“To collectively advance the understanding of fire risk management in tall buildings,

during design, construction, occupation and firefighting operations. This will be achieved

by group scrutiny of available research data, relevant innovative products and

development of a guidance document for fire safety in tall buildings”.

Terms of Reference:

1. Membership of the group will be formed primarily by staff representing

owner/management of tall buildings;

2. Membership of the group is also open to key stakeholders involved in fire safety

within tall buildings;

3. The group will meet twice a year at suitable venues convenient to the

membership;

4. The group will be administered by Horizonscan

(organisation of meetings speakers, minutes, etc.);

5. Membership of the group is voluntary, and any expenses incurred are down to

individual members;

Steering Committee:

Chair:

Secretary: Russ Timpson (Horizonscan)

Prof Ed Galea (University of Greenwich), Paul Stewart (London Fire Brigade), Tom Gilbert

(BB7), Jim Creak (MOE)

3. Conference Agenda

Wednesday 8th July 2015

Session 1 – Fire Prevention and Management in Tall Buildings

Sponsor - FPA

08:45 Delegates to be seated in the Howe Lecture Theatre

09:00 Welcome – Chair of the Tall Building Fire Safety Network

09:10 Official opening – (TBC)

09:20 Keynote – “Fire and Life Safety in This the New Era of the Supertall Building”

Peter A. Weismantle FAIA, RIBA, Director of Supertall Building Technology,

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP, Chicago, US.

(note: all presentation timings include a 5 minute Q&A session at the end)

09:50 Presentation 1: Case Study – IBM Fire, Brisbane – Justin Francis

10:15 Presentation 2: Fire Risk Management – Jim Glocking

10:40 Presentation 3: Fire Risk Management Process – Ben Bradford

11:05 Tea & Coffee Break

11:30 Presentation 4: TBC

11:55 Presentation 5: “BIM and Tall Buildings” Peter Caple DipArch RIBA

12:20 Panel Discussion

12:40 Lunch

Session 2 – Fire Detection and Alarm in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – Advanced Alarms

13:30 Keynote –: New Innovations in Tall Building Fire Detection

- Advanced Alarms

14:00 Presentation 6: Project Case Study - The Wilshire Grand (tallest building west

of the Mississippi in the U.S.) - Nathan Wittasek

14:25 Presentation 7: Is phased evacuation credible? – Russ Timpson



15:40 Presentation 9: Detection/Alarm and Fire Engineering – LFB Fire Engineering



17:00 Conference Day 1 closes

19:30 Networking Social Event (see Social Programme

Thursday 9th July 2015

Session 3 – Fire Evacuation and Human Behaviour in Tall Buildings

Sponsor - TBC

08:45 Delegates to be seated in the Howe Lecture Theatre

09:00 Welcome – Tom Gilbert, BB7

09:10 Official opening Day 2 – Jim Creak, Means of Escape

09:20 Keynote – Prof. Ed Galea, Greenwich University


09:50 Presentation 11: Fire Engineering & Escape – LFB Fire Engineering

10:15 Presentation 12: Evacuating Tall Buildings – people with reduced mobility

- Alison Hayward, Hospital Aids

10:40 Presentation 13: Evacuate and Disperse – Mike Wagland, Credit Suisse



11:55 Presentation 15: Fire safety for tall buildings in Denmark – fire engineering

best practice & future challenges – Jens Husberg


12:40 Lunch

Session 4 – Fire Containment and Passive Fire Barriers in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – TBC

13:30 Keynote – Gareth Dean, Sharpfibre TBC

14:00 Presentation 16: Insurance and Fire Containment – Andy Jones

14:25 Presentation 17: “Tall buildings upside down – can we learn from London

Underground’s experience?” – Paul Bryant

14:50 Presentation 18: Fire Safety and Tall Building Facades – Steve Swales


15:40 Presentation 19: Timber and Tall Buildings – Jesse Heitz



17:00 Conference Day 1 closes

19:30 Gala Dinner featuring Sir Ranulph Fiennes (see Social Programme)

Friday 10th July – Tall Building Themed days

Theme 1 – Firefighting in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – TBC

Host – London Fire Brigade

08:45 Delegates to be seated in lecture theatre

09:00 Welcome – London Fire Brigade

09:20 Keynote – TBC


09:50 Presentation 1: Tall Building Firefighting in Australia – Justin Francis

10:40 Presentation 2: Current Tall Building Firefighting Issues – Mark Fishlock


11:30 Presentation 3: Tall Building Firefighting Command – Peter Cowup


12:40 Lunch

13:30 Presentation 4: Tall Building Firefighter Training – West Mids F&R Service

14:20 Presentation 5: Tall Building Firefighting Equipment Innovation - LFB




17:00 Firefighting in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes


Theme 2 – Security and Terrorist Threats in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – TBC

Host - CSARN


09:00 Welcome – Steve Watts, CSARN

09:20 Keynote – UK Government Security Advisor


09:50 Real Time Mapping of Tall Building Security Incidents – Paul Snudden,

Andvance Laser imaging

10:40 Martin Smith, The Security Company


11:30 Andy Coles, Frontline Security


12:40 Lunch

13:30 NaCTSO

14:20 MPS firearms


15:40 TBC


17:00 Security in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes


Theme 3 – Resilience and Business Continuity in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – TBC

Host – Continuity Forum


09:00 Welcome – Sara McKenna

09:10 Official opening Resilience and Business Continuity in Tall Buildings Theme Day –

Russell Price

09:20 Keynote – TBC


09:50 Presentation 1





12:40 Lunch






17:00 Resilience in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes

4. Speaker Profiles

Ben Bradford Founder and Managing Director of BB7 Fire Risk + Resilience, voted by

IFSEC Global to be among the IFSEC 40 most influential people in fire and security, Ben

holds duel professional status as both a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Surveyor. He

is the Chairman of the Fire Industry Associations (FIA) Professional Standards Working

Group and also a member of both the Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Engineering

Councils. Chairman of the Institution of Fire Engineers (London Branch) Marketing and

Events Committee and member of the IFE Competency and Ethics Committee. Ben also

sits on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Building Control) Professional

Group Board and is the principle author of PAS 7: 2013 Fire Risk Management System

Requirements for and on behalf of British Standards Institution. Prior to founding BB7

he gained national and international experience as a Director for a large independent

Fire Engineering Consultancy, and has worked/presented in rapidly emerging countries

such as Vietnam, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Libya, Qatar, and Nigeria. He gained a sound

understanding of building pathology, Construction, Building Legislation, Codes and

Standards whilst working as a Chartered Building Control Surveyor in London and the

South East. During his career in Building Control he gained a BSc Hon’s in Building

Surveying, an MSc in Building Engineering which incorporated Evacuation Modelling

and he also gained an AMBA Accredited MBA via Kent Business School. In May 2014 he

will become Vice-President of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers

Professor Ed Galea is the founding director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) of the University of Greenwich in London where he has worked in the area of Computational Fire Engineering (CFE) research since 1986. FSEG are developers of the EXODUS suite of evacuation and crowd dynamics software and the SMARTFIRE fire simulation software, which have users in 35 countries around the world. His personal research interests include human behaviour in emergency evacuation situations, crowd dynamics, evacuation and crowd dynamics simulation, fire dynamics and CFD fire simulation. His research has applications to the building, aviation, maritime and rail industries.

He is the author of over 300 academic and professional publications, the vice chair

of the International Association of Fire Safety Science and serves on a number of

standards committees concerned with fire and evacuation for organisations such as;

IMO, ISO, BSI and the SFPE Task Group on Human Behaviour in Fire. He has served

on several major Inquires and legal cases as an expert in fire and evacuation

including: the Paddington Rail Crash, the Swiss Air MD11 crash, and the Admiral

Duncan Pub bombing. He has successfully supervised 20 PhD students in fire and

evacuation related studies. He is a Guest Professor at Ghent University Belgium and

the Institut Supérieur des Matériaux et Mécaniques Avancés (ISMANS), Le Mans,

France where he teaches on Fire Safety Engineering MSc courses. He has won a

number of awards for his work including; 2001 British Computer Society Gold

Medal, 2002 Queen’s Anniversary prize, 2006 Royal Aeronautical Society Gold

Award; 2008 SFPE Jack Bono Award, 2010 Royal Aeronautical Society Bronze Award

and the 2014 The Guardian University Award for Research Impact. He is an

associate editor of the “Royal Aeronautical Journal” and open access journal ‘Fire

Science Reviews’.

Mark Redding has over 20 years’ experience in the insurance industry advising commercial and corporate clients on all aspects of property and business interruption risk. Mark gained considerable experience of high rise office buildings working in Allianz Global’s financial sector where clients included Canary Wharf and Deutsche Bank and has more recently been closely involved in developing Mitsui Sumitomo’s approach to the assessment and underwriting of high rise buildings. Mark sits on a number of insurance related working groups where industry knowledge is shared and standards developed. With less academic credentials than some of his fellow presenters Mark would describe his approach to the subject of high rise buildings as experience-based and practical.

Peter Cowup is in his 32nd year of service with London Fire Brigade and is currently

Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Acting Head of Operational Procedures. Peter’s role

is to provide leadership, guidance and support to a department that holds the policy

lead for LFB's firefighting, rescue, hazardous materials, respiratory protective

equipment and incident communications capabilities. In practise, the department

produces the risk assessments, policies and procedures and training and equipment

specifications which underpin and help to deliver safe and effective operational

response in these areas. Peter also represents LFB in several national forums, such as

USAR and the CLG/CFRA working group responsible for producing national generic risk

assessments (GRAs).

Peter attends and provides support to larger operational incidents at both Silver and

Gold levels of command. During his career, Peter has attended and taken command

roles at a wide range of significant operational incidents, including a number of major

fires (several of which were in high rise buildings), a major incident at Chancery Lane

LUL station and at Kings Cross during the 7/7 London bombings. More recently, Peter

attended the helicopter crash in Vauxhall as LFB’s principal media spokesperson.

Through his work with CLG/CFRA, Peter took on the role of principal author for the

revised GRA that covers firefighting in high rise buildings. This was a significant

project, which run over three years and involved close working across the UK fire

service and with stakeholders such as trades unions and the Health and Safety

Executive. The GRA was published in February 2014 and provides UK fire services with

information on a range of hazards associated with high rise fires and guidance on how

these can be controlled through measures such as those associated with planning,

training and command and control.

Jim Glockling is the Technical Director of the Fire Protection Association.

Originally a Chemical Engineer, he did his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the UK

Atomic Energy Authority before undertaking a post doctorate in fire extinguishing

technologies. He has worked as a university lecturer in Chemical Engineering &

Fire Engineering and as a Forensic Fire Investigator. Immediately prior to joining

the FPA he was the Associate Director of the Special Projects Group at LPC and

then BRE. Jim continues to undertake research into fire protection with his

sizeable team of experts with particular emphasis on solving high risk detection /

suppression issues and has worked extensively with the ABI, major UK insurers

and the MOD. He has responsibility for the annual UK insurer research budget

which is administered through the RISCAuthority scheme.

Justin Francis - 19 years of experience within the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service has seen a significant amount of experience gained whilst working as an operational Station Officer within the Central Business District of Brisbane, Australia. This experience includes performing the role of incident controller at many incidents in tall buildings, 4 years of working within the Community Safety field focussed on Building Approvals of significant building developments, liaison with private industry and compliance and prosecution. This combined knowledge highlighted a shortfall in fire fighter skills and prompted establishment of training programs aimed at strengthening fire fighter knowledge on Special Fire Services within the built environment. My formal qualifications, a Bachelor Degree of Emergency Management from Charles Sturt University have assisted to extend my knowledge outside of my organisation. My current work area is operationally based and is broad in area, ranging from Technical Rescue through to bush fire management in the field of Bush Fire Behaviour Analysis.

Peter A. Weismantle - Director of Supertall Building Technology at Adrian Smith +

Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) in Chicago, is responsible for overseeing the

technical development of the firm’s supertall projects from concept to completion.

His current projects include Greenland Center, a 600+ meter tall project in Wuhan,

China; Dongcun Center, a 468 meter tall tower in Chengdu, China and the Kingdom

Tower, a project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that, when completed, will be the tallest

building in the world at more than 1000 meters. Before joining AS+GG in 2008,

Peter was an Associate Partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

LLP, where he began his career in 1977 and served as senior technical architect on

several supertall towers, including Shanghai’s 88-story Jin Mao Tower and the 162-

story Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building.

He is currently the Chairman of the CTBUH Advisory Group, immediate past-

Chairman of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings (CCHRB), President of

the Board of Directors of the Safety Glazing Certification Council (SGCC) and was

named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2010 and the

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in 2014.

Paul Bryant - Paul is the founder of Kingfell from 1995 which grew into a +£5m one

stop shop for fire engineering and protection. He divested his interest in system

engineering in 2011. Paul started his career with the Fire Offices Committee (FOC)

in the early 1980s, after receiving an honours degree in electrical engineering. As

Technical Officer he was responsible for the approval of fire detection and alarm

systems. When the FOC merged into the Loss Prevention Council, Paul’s remit

expanded into standards writing on an international basis.

He joined London Underground as Head of Fire Engineering in the 1990sand

oversaw a team of engineers responsible for the fire protection systems in all LU

stations. Today, Paul is recognised as an expert in the application of fire strategies.

He wrote British Standard PAS 911 as well as his book on the subject – “Fire

strategies – strategic thinking”. He lectures all over the world

Paul is also a Freeman of the City of London and a liveried member of the

Worshipful Company of Firefighters.

http://www.ctbuh.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=92&tabid=1121&language=en-US

Brett Lovegrove - After retiring as the Head of Counter Terrorism for the City of London

Police in 2008, Brett is today the Chief Executive of the City Security and Resilience

Network (CSARN) covering the UK and Australia; Managing Director of Valentis Bridge Ltd

and a Director at NHJ Strategic Consulting. He is the Chairman of the Defence and Security

Committee in the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry; a Visiting Fellow at

Cranfield University (UK Defence Academy); a Visiting Professor at the Marshall Centre

(US Military), Germany; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; a Fellow of the Security

Institute; a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management; a

Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals and lectures at the

Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Brett is also Chairman of the Crime Prevention

Committee of the UK’s National Business Crime Forum and on the Board of Directors for

the National Business Crime Forum.

Over his 30 years of service, he has been posted to uniformed, academic, strategic and

senior investigation detective duties. He gained a Masters degree in Criminal Justice and

Terrorism. As Head of Counter Terrorism, he also had national responsibility for

countering hostile reconnaissance within a successful and continuing public/private

partnership called ‘Project Griffin’. Brett was also a ‘Silver’ commander for CBRN events

and other major events in the UK.

Today, he is frequently asked to advise international organisations and governments

including the US Congress, the US Department of State and House of Representatives, the

European Government in The Hague, the sovereign State of Georgia (OSCE mission), The

sovereign State of Lithuania (OSCE mission), has worked with the National Counter

Terrorism Board in the Netherlands and briefed the Danish and Croatian Parliaments.

Brett led the first international delegation into Mumbai after the attacks there in

November 2008 and helped to write the White Paper for the Indian Government mapping

the development of more effective and joined up emergency services, security and

resilience response.

Peter Caplehorn is the Policy Director and Deputy Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association, where he leads the work to ensure that the UK and EU policy and regulatory framework – particularly for technical and sustainability issues – supports a growing and profitable UK construction products industry. A Chartered Architect with more than 30 years of experience in construction, Peter has for more than 15 years engaged with the wider industry in a number of key national roles. He is currently working closely with the Royal Institute of British Architects, British Standards Institution, Building Research Establishment, Health and Safety Executive, and the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and & Skills. Peter is the deputy chair of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC) and currently chairs CB- (the British Standards Institution’s strategic committee for construction). His main focus recently has been the new CDM Regulations, application of Building Information Modelling (“BIM”) within construction regulations and future building regulations. Prior to joining the Association, Peter was the Technical Director at the award-winning architectural practice Scott Brownrigg. Peter is the author of “Whole Life Costing: A New Approach” (Routledge, 2012) and has frequently published articles for the RIBA Journal, Building Design, Building and others. He has given evidence at several All Party Parliamentary Enquiries, and appeared on a number of television and radio interviews and live event programmes including Grand Designs Live. Peter was awarded the BA (Hons) from the Portsmouth School of Architecture, and has

been a member of the RIBA Council since 2009.

Jesse Heitz - obtained a BA from the University of St. Thomas in 2010. In July of 2014. Currently in the final months of a MSt in Building History from the University of Cambridge. Beginning in September 2015, I will begin studying for a Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of St. Andrews. I have written and presented over a dozen history research papers at both domestic and international conferences, with two additional research papers to be presented at conferences in 2015. I have been a firefighter with the Chaska Fire Department since 2012, and I have served as the Training Officer for the Carver County Fire Departments’ Hazardous Materials Response Group since 2014.

Nathan Wittasek has twenty years of experience working in the fire protection and regulatory arenas. Nate brings a practical approach to the fire protection engineering field that reflects his diverse training and experiences in academia, codes consulting, fire protection engineering, sustainable design, and the fire service. His experience includes failure analysis, fire engineering, systems design and building codes consulting for commercial and infrastructure projects in North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Nate has specialized in fire life safety systems and approaches that are used in tall buildings, and is currently involved with several tall buildings projects in various stages of design and construction.

Nate is a registered fire protection engineer in the state of California, sits on

the fire safety committee for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat,

and is a regular instructor for the American Institute of Architects, California

Polytechnic University and the UCLA Extension, where he focuses on

regulatory issues, building, fire and zoning codes as well as accessibility.

Mike Wagland current role as Global Head of Health and Safety at Credit

Suisse Mike is responsible for developing and implementing the long term

strategy to the bank's operations across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. A

central part of this strategy involves working with the Bank’s global

outsourced FM partner organisation, to ensure their operational and

compliance health & safety risks are effectively mitigated.

Career Highlights include:

Introducing safe systems of work to deal with auditory shock and fire safety in Indian call centres.

Managing construction and operational safety systems in a datacenter network across eight European countries.

Developing a strategy and process for delivering health & safety-related sales and operational support to an international property management company.

Jens Husbjerg started in 1991 his career at Rockwool Internationals. Jens was

an authority having jurisdiction that requires approvals compliance the

Danish building and fire code. Since then he has worked as fire consultant for

15 years for major consultants and was in 2005 educated Master of Fire

Safety from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with the master

thesis developing a design guideline in mechanical in-fire ventilation in

Denmark.

Jens has extensive experiences with complex construction projects e.g. as

discipline leader for the development of fire safety strategies of sports

arenas, urban projects, airports in Oman, a new university in Beijing and a

tunnel in Sweden. He has performed fire analysis for structural steel and fire

analysis for hallow precast concrete planks.

Jens is chief fire consultant in MOE Consulting Engineers in Copenhagen and

has in the recently years worked intensively as PM and DL on larger projects

with international leading architects and engineers. MOE has developed the

fire safety strategy with BIG Architect for a new high rise building in Aarhus

Harbor. One current project proposal is the engineering report including the

fire safety strategy and authority approval for a new high rise office building,

urban café facilities and underground parking area. The building complex

shall be located just in front of Tivoli´s main entrance in central Copenhagen.

5. Social Programme

One of the main objectives of the conference is for delegates to meet and network with

colleagues from around the world. To that end the following social programme has been

arranged:

Wednesday 8th July, from 7pm: Networking

Reception at the Meantime micro-brewery.

With a wide selection of great beers and ales,

this venue is a great place to discuss the

subjects of the day. Pay as you go bar. Located

within the campus, 500 meters of the

conference venue.

Dress: informal + conference badges

www.oldbrewerygreenwich.com

Thursday 9th July, from 6:30pm: Gala Dinner in the Painted Hall.

The magnificent Painted Hall will provide a superb setting for the Gala Dinner. This is a

formal event. Black tie or dark lounge suit is the dress code. The meal is included in the

full delegate fee. Accompanying drinks (wine, soft drinks, etc.) will be available from a

cash bar. A string quartet will play during the evening.

The evening will feature an after dinner speech by the World renowned explorer,

Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Findraising for Help for Heroes will be part of the evening.

Often described as the ‘World’s Greatest Living

Explorer,’ Ran Fiennes is the first person to

reach both North and South Poles by foot. He

also made it into the record books by completing

seven marathons on seven continents (including

Antarctica) in seven days – soon after receiving

emergency heart surgery. Only then did he take

up climbing, starting with the North Face of the

Eiger. At the age of 65, at his third attempt, Ran

became the oldest Briton to conquer Everest.

In 2013 Ran launched The Coldest Journey, an

attempt to cross Antarctica on foot during the

southern winter where the temperature falls to

minus 90°C. He was forced to withdraw when he

suffered severe frostbite, but still claims that “if

you are lucky enough to be able to walk around

without a crutch, you might as well go for it.”

Ran Fiennes inspires and entertains conference

and after dinner audiences throughout the

world. Presentations draw a connection between

nature’s most dangerous and difficult challenges,

and the day-to-day hurdles we all face.

Teamwork, determination, patience, discipline

and creative thinking are all critical in

expeditions; we may not risk our own lives in

the same way, but the parallels are clear even in

less hazardous occupations.

http://www.oldbrewerygreenwich.com/

6. University of Greenwich

www.gre.ac.uk

Travel: http://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/how-to-get-to-greenwich

Greenwich Campus is located in the old Royal

Naval College, which it moved into in the 1990s

when the premises were sold by the Royal Navy.

This makes it look like an old University when

actually it's a former polytechnic which only

became a university in the 1990s.

Three of the university’s schools are based here:

the Business School, the School of Computing and

Mathematical Sciences and the School of

Humanities & Social Sciences. The campus is also

home to the university’s Greenwich Maritime

Institute, a specialist maritime management,

policy and history teaching and research institute.

Trafalgar Tavern

Main

Conference

Venue

Painted Hall

Greenwich

Maritime

Docklands Light

Railway station

7. Hotels

The conference hotel with a preferential conference rate is:

Devonport House Link: http://www.deverevenues.co.uk/en/venues/devonport-house/

Contact & quote booking code: HORI080715

Eileen Murnane - Reservations

De Vere Venues Devonport House

T: 0208 269 5443 | F: 0208 269 5422 |

E: [email protected]

Devonport House , King William Walk , Greenwich, London, SE10 9JW

8. Help?

Before the conference:

Updates and information will be posted on our Linkedin page

– Tall Building Fire Safety Network (please join if you have not done so already)

We will also send email updates regularly

During the conference:

We will have a delegate help desk operating during the conference.

A dedicated conference team will be on hand to answer your questions and make sure

you have the best conference possible.

At any time:

Contact conference director Russ Timpson:

Office: 02034 780678 Mobile: 07951 190576

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.tallbuildingfire.com

http://www.deverevenues.co.uk/en/venues/devonport-house/

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