Fire Safety Week 2020 - WEBINAR #5: The stake of the Energy Transition for buildings: Fire Safety Competency

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WEBINAR #5: Thursday November 19th – 14h00-15h45 (CET)

The stake of the Energy Transition for buildings:
Fire Safety Competency

The Energy Transition is bringing structural change to global energy production and consumption. In this context, the building stock has a central position. The sustainable transformation of building stocks will include the electrification (e-mobility, solar panels, domestic batteries, etc.) and decentralisation of energy production. This transformation will necessarily introduce new fire risks; as electrical defaults are already a major cause of fires. At the same time, trends towards higher energy efficiency, sustainability and circularity involves the use of new materials, new construction systems and new construction methods. Fire safety must neither fall behind nor impede this evolution but address this complexity to accompany the energy transition.

When it comes to ensuring the fire safety of buildings, the involvement of competent professionals with clear roles and responsibilities, during the design, construction and maintenance phases of a building is crucial to accompany the safe evolution of building stock. The involvement of fire safety engineers is not sufficiently common practice and recent tragic events have shown that a lack of compliance with fire safety can have serious consequences. The regular inspection of electrical and fire safety installation is similarly an element that can make a significant difference in preventing fires and limit their consequences.

What are the required roles and responsibilities of professionals during a building’s design, construction and operation to ensure fire safety and electrical safety? How can their roles, skills and competencies be strengthened?

The objective of this webinar is to:

• Learn from best practices that demonstrate the benefits of involving fire safety engineers in the building’s design and how establishing routine electrical inspections.
• Highlight how the development of fire safety knowledge and competency will ensure a safe energy transition.

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This webinar is part of the European Fire Safety Week 2020 and was organised by the European Fire Safety Alliance with the support of Europacable, FEEDS and the Modern Building Alliance.