Discover the 2024 Summer School on Fire Fundamentals for Performance-Based Fire Safety Design, happening from 1st to 7th September 2024 in Warsaw, Poland. Led by experts such as Dr Andrea Lucherini and Prof Grunde Jomaas from FRISSBE, this event offers a unique opportunity to delve into key topics in fire safety design. Explore principles, fire behavior fundamentals, structural fire safety, probabilistic performance-based design, and more. Additionally, join us on Saturday, 7th September, for a day trip to the Baltic Fire Laboratory, featuring a lab tour and full-scale fire tests demonstration, including real cars and car park fire tests as per prEN14972-5. Enhance your skills and knowledge in fire safety design with us!

The course is unique in its contents and structure, offering a coherent programme that focuses on high-quality performance-based fire safety design approaches and tools. To achieve that, the required fundamentals are taught throughout the week by well-renowned lecturers, experienced in both academia and fire safety design, who will also be available for the entire week for personal discussions with the select participants, who are offered a very low student to lecturer ratio.

• Prof Grunde Jomaas (FRISSBE-ZAG, Slovenia)
• Dr Andrea Lucherini (FRISSBE-ZAG, Slovenia)
• Dr Martina Manes (University of Liverpool, UK)
• Prof Bart Merci (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Dr Michael Spearpoint (OFR Consultants, UK)
• Prof José L. Torero (University College London, UK)
• Dr Ruben Van Coile (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Dr. Wojciech Węgrzyński (ITB, Poland)
• Dr Michael Woodrow (University College London, UK)

Moreover, the participants will experience a selection of full-scale tests and experimental demonstrations carried out at the ITB Fire Testing Laboratory, one of Europe's largest and busiest fire laboratory hubs.

Content and learning objectives

The summer school aims at presenting, explaining, and discussing the following relevant topics related to performance-based fire safety design:

• Fire safety design principles: general objectives, approaches, and tools
• Fundamentals of fire behaviour: overview on the needs, ignition, and fire spread
• Fundamentals of smoke and heat transport
• Structural fire safety
• Probabilistic performance-based design
• Fire safety design tools
• Laboratory visit and testing in full-scale
• Case studies
• Research in consultancy and emerging challenges

Target audience

Early career fire science researchers (PhD students or postdoctoral researchers), as well as practitioners in fire safety engineering that would like to strengthen their fundamentals, extend their knowledge, analyse practical examples and recent innovative applications, discuss emerging challenges, and learn more about performance-based fire safety design in general.

The summer school cohort has 50 participants with a diverse background, research interests, profession, geographical location, and gender.

Organization

The summer school will have 5 days for teaching and learning activities in Warsaw, plus an optional learning day in Gdansk. It will be delivered as a mix of lectures, discussions, and case studies. During the laboratory visit, participants will witness live demonstrations and experiments, with ability to interact with the testing personnel and closely inspect data, testing process, and specimens.

The teaching language will be English.

Explore more about the 2024 Summer School and its program! Find out what awaits you and discover how you can advance your expertise in fire safety design. Click in the next links for further information, or send an enquire at the next email: summerschool@itb.pl

Building Research Institute 

Firescienceshow

Program

The co-organizer of the Summer School, FRISSBE, has obtained support for the organization of the event to improve its accessibility, inclusivity and participant experience. This support will also be used to create travel grants for some of the participants. We are thankful to the following organizations who are supporting us in our mission to deliver the best teaching experience to our participants!

Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

                                                                                                                        

                                                                  Halliwell Fire Research                                                         

                                                        

                                                                       Baltic Fire Lab

Gold Sponsors

                                                                    Fire & Risk Alliance

Silver Sponsors

   

Instytut Techniki Budowlanej                     Reliable Sprinkler                                        Marioff                                     

Bronze Sponsors

OFR Consultants                                           Trigon                               European Fire Sprinkler Network                                                       

Ei Electronics                                                                                                      INBEPO