On February 6-8, 2024, prof. Grunde Jomaas, ERA Chair holder for the FRISSBE project and Head of the Department of Fire-safe Sustainable Built Environment at the Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institut (ZAG) visited CERN.

CERN, physics and fire safety engineering

CERN is an organization run by 23 Member States, with many non-European countries involved in different ways. The so-called Laboratory, established in 1954, has become a prime example of international collaboration.

CERN helps uncovering what the universe is made of and how it works by providing a unique range of particle accelerator facilities to researchers in order to advance the boundaries of human knowledge. One can sum up their mission by using Grunde’s statement:

Fire safety engineering is obviously also extremely important at CERN, and this requires thinking outside the box, as the challenges are vast in terms of depth, distances, travel paths, materials, fluids, gases, and so on – plenty to consider when working to ensure fire safety for humans and property alike. Finally, downtime and the loss of science have to be taken into account in the risk assessments.

FRISSBE, ZAG at CERN

Prof. Grunde Jomaas presented the research (see figure in the gallery below) carried out in ZAG's fire laboratory.
Special thanks go to Mr. Darko Perović, fellow in fire safety engineering at CERN, for putting together a very comprehensive visit and bringing together many different fire safety experts, and to Oriol Rios, Brecht Debrouwere, Lorenzo Contini, Saverio La Mendola and Benoit Delille for hosting and good discussions.

 
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