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Controlling the Spread of Fire in High Risk Buildings

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Are you up to speed on all elements of fire safety in high risk buildings?

Sorry - this event has already taken place. Register your interest for our next conference "Building a Safer Future – what will Dame Judith Hackitt’s final report mean to the construction industry?"

Join us at this essential CPD event taking place in Manchester on 22 March 2018.

Highlights from the fire conference programme include:

  • Dame Judith Hackitt’s interim report
  • Defining “high risk” buildings
  • Design and specification concerns
  • Structural safety in high rise
  • The fire fighter perspective

Tickets are just £130+VAT which includes lunch and refreshments.

Programme

09.30

Registration & Refreshments

 

09.55

Welcome to the conference

Phil Hammond, LABC

10.00

Hackitt Interim Report  - the key points that may affect professionals in the industry

Barry Turner, LABC

10.30

Scene setting - what is "high risk?"

David Ware, Fire Risk Consultancy

11.00 

Crowd Behaviour & Emergency Management

Anne Templeton, University of Kent

11.30

Structural Safety in High Rise

Richard Hill, Arup

Andrew Lawrence, Arup

12.00

Lunch & Networking

 

13.00

A better way to stop passing the buck and achieve better cover

Graham De Roy, Griffiths & Armour

13.30

Arups' current top 10 design and specification concerns

Paul Williams, Arup

14.00

What does the Grenfell Tower fire and the Hackitt review mean for the construction sector 

Emily Monastiriotis, Simmons and Simmons

14.30

We see this thousands of times - why?

Rob Burridge, LABC Warranty

Richard Smith, LABC Warranty

15.00

Networking & Refreshments

 

15.15

How fire fighters respond and what you've done that will hamper them

Merlyn Forrer, Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service

15.45

Should industry agree to limit who can work on high risk buildings?

Peter O''Reilly, Institution of Fire Engineers

16.15

Conference summary and close

Phil Hammond, LABC

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