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LOCATION:Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub, Central Teaching Hub, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BX
SUMMARY:Ensuring Fire Safety in the face of Climate Emergency
DESCRIPTION:Join international fire expert Professor Luke Bisby, Personal Chair of Fire and Structures within the School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh for talk 'Ensuring Fire Safety in the face of Climate Emergency - Lessons from Mass Timber Buildings'.This talk will discuss the regulation of fire safety for the built environment in the context of English and Welsh Building Regulations and specifically use the fire safety of mass timber buildings as a lens through which to consider important aspects of the UK building regulatory system, particularly when architects and structural engineers seek to rapidly innovate in the face of the Climate Emergency. The key differences between timber buildings and buildings constructed from non-combustible materials will be highlighted. Some of the regulatory challenges and changes that have occurred in the UK since the Grenfell Tower fire - and what these mean for mass timber buildings - will also be addressed. Professor Bisby will link some of the highlighted issues to a number of the recommendations made in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Final Report; however, he will not comment directly on the Grenfell Tower fire.Where is this event taking place?University of Liverpool, Central Teaching Hub, Lecture Theatre ASpeaker BioProf Luke Bisby is Personal Chair of Fire and Structures within the School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Fire Safety Journal (Elsevier) and has extensive experience of fire safety and structural engineering research and consultancy, instruction as expert witness, university teaching and administration, promotion of public understanding of science and engineering, and wide-ranging professional activities. His work has been particularly influential at the interface between structural engineering and fire safety engineering, and Luke advises industrial and government fire safety research organisations and regulatory bodies internationally. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institutions of Fire Engineers and Structural Engineers, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. For 7+ years, Luke was instructed as an expert witness to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. His work for the Inquiry included a detailed forensic study of the external fire at Grenfell Tower, a large programme of experiments to identify and characterise the reaction-to-fire and system behaviours of materials and products used within Grenfell Tower’s external cladding system, and a detailed historical study of fire safety regulation, testing, and previous cladding fires in the UK. Luke has also previously appeared as a presenter in a range of engineering documentary television series, including “Impossible Engineering”, “When Big Things Go Wrong”, and most recently “Disaster Autopsy”.
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