Fire Safe Europe,
the voice of Europe fire safe in its buildings.
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Welcome to Fire Safe Europe, where you will find information on fire safety and its related topics – Buildings Sustainability, Construction Product Regulation, Facades, FIEP, Fire Safety Engineering, Smoke Toxicity, ….
Fire Safe Europe is a European association representing companies and professional organisations aiming to improve fire safety in buildings for people and society. We are at the crossroads of policies, businesses, and governments, supporting the interests of the fire safety industry in Europe.
Fires in buildings are bigger, more unpredictable and more dangerous than ever before, and many of the current regulatory requirements around fire safety in buildings are not providing an adequate level of fire protection for European citizens. Fire Safe Europe (FSEU) works constantly to change this status quo by working with experts, policy and decision makers to ensure that people and communities across Europe are safe from fire in every building they spend time in.
Today Fire Safe Europe works on the most ambitious project: The Fire Safety Rating Scheme in Buildings. The project is organised around four topics which we envisage to be the cornerstones of a holistic and accessible fire safety assessment for buildings: data collection & analysis, sustainability, social justice and model fire safety assessment.
Together we are working to make Europe fire safe.
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Knowledge Hub
Fire Safety Engineering
Performance-Based Design & Prescriptive Methods: It’s Time to Work Hand in Hand
We asked Michael Strömgren a few questions about performance-based design, prescriptive methods, and the link between the two.
FSEU Position Paper – Fire Safety Engineer (2017)
FSEU Position Paper – Fire Safety Engineering
Performance-based design of buildings using Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) tools had opened new possibilities for to designing large and complex buildings which could not have been designed in the same way using existing prescriptive rules. The primary aims of FSE must continue to be to prevent the loss of life. The misuse of FSE (be it deliberate or unintentional) in order to reduce costs or to change a building’s use after completion is a risk that needs to be kept in mind. The “precautionary principle” should always be abided by when it comes to fire safety measures.
Facades
Outcome from the 1st EU Fire Safety Day
The 1st edition of the European Fire Safety Day was a success as it gathered over 280 participants from all over Europe. It proves yet once again that fire safety in buildings is of high importance and interest and that this topic deserves to be in the focus of...
Next step for the comparative study on national fire safety requirements – edition 2020/2021
The 1st edition of the Comparative Study, titled Building Height Study, was published in 2014. Like today's edition, it aimed to clarify what the national requirements related to fire safety were in schools, hospitals and high-rise residential buildings. The goal was...
1st EU Fire Safety Day 2021!
Mark your agenda: the Civil Engineering Faculty University of Zagreb and the Croatian Fire Safety Association - HUZOP are organizing the international conference named EU Fire Safety Day – Fire Safety in Hospitals. It will be an online event on May 31, 2021 (Monday)...
FIEP
FIEP Meeting: What are the risks entailed from smoke in fires?
Output from the last FIEP meeting on Fire Safety related EU projects
FIEP Call: FSEU presented Part 1 and 2 of the Comparative Study edition 2021
News update on what has been presented in the FIEP meeting on April 15, 2021. Access the presentations.
Smoke Toxicity
FSEU Technical Document “Classification system for the smoke toxicity of fire exposed construction products”
FSEU Technical Document “Test methods for smoke toxicity classification of fire-exposed construction products”
Digital roundtable news release
Brussels, 19 November 2020: MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen (EPP, Finland) and Fire Safe Europe co-organised a roundtable on “Improving fire safety by assessing the toxicity of smoke from burning construction products”.