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PowerPoint PresentationResearch Needs for the Fire Safety
Engineering Profession: The SFPE Roadmap
CHRIS JELENEWICZ, P.E., FSFPE
SFPE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Where We Started
SFPE Strategic Plan (2015-2017), Appoint a Committee to: Identify,
develop, and oversee SFPE’s technical products and research work,
review new innovations, and help to establish the research agenda
for the fire safety engineering profession
SFPE Subcommittee for Research & Innovation
Develop a Research Roadmap for the FSE profession
Monitor innovation and emerging technology trends in the global
fire safety engineering community
Communicate to membership and global stakeholders
Previous Work 2000 SFPE Published a Research Agenda
Based on Input from a Workshop FPE consultants Industrial facility
owners Equipment suppliers Insurance companies Government AHJs/Code
Enforcement Academia Fire service
2000 Research Agenda Identify research needed to reduce fire
related costs, improve life safety, improve international
competitiveness and facilitate regulatory reform. Four areas were
identified: Fire phenomena Human behavior Risk Data
collection
Other Organizations United Foundation Engineering Conference in
2001 FORUM of Fire Research Laboratory Directors in 2006 BRANZ in
2016
All reports are referenced in Current Roadmap Report
Vision for a Roadmap Define future of SFPEs technical initiatives
Transparency & member input (over 500 members) What is needed
by practicing FSEs Be a living document Have a long-term focus on
advancing FSE A means of coordinating research initiatives
(Foundation) A basis for forming partnerships with research &
fire safety organizations Act as a bridge between research and
practice Become a subtheme of future SFPE conferences
Drafting the Roadmap Preliminary List by Subcommittee – Early
2016
Warsaw Workshop – May 2016
Denver Workshop – September 2016
Survey
Original List of Topics 1. Structures in fire
a. Tall timber buildings 2. Human behaviour 3. Environmental
protection and sustainability
a. Tall timber buildings b. Hazards of new building materials c.
Batteries and energy storage d. PV arrays e. Impact of fire on the
environment f. Eco-impact of FP g. Toxicity of fire
retardants
4. Big data and FP a. Smart fire fighting b. Smart buildings c.
Smart enforcement
5. Economic impact of fire a. Value of Fire Departments to
community b. Cost/benefit of proposed code/standards changes
6. Demographics a. Aging population b. Mobility c. Accessibility d.
Aging in place and home healthcare
1. Health and wellbeing of FS personnel a. Risk of cancer
2. Resiliency a. Reliability of FP Systems
3. Wildland fires 4. Tunnels and underground FP 5. Risk management
6. Models
a. Things that models can’t do today 7. Data
a. Gaps in the Data b. Data accessibility
8. Fire Protection Systems a. Smoke Detection Nuisance b. New
system technologies (i.e. O2 reduction) c. Reliability of
systems/aging of systems
Workshops & Conferences SFPE Dubai Conference – March
2016
Warsaw Workshop – May 2016
Denver Workshop – September 2016
SFPE AOCCG (Taiwan) – November 2016
Survey 375 Participants Survey Questions are Listed on Roadmap
Report 3 – Questions Based on Revised List What is Missing from
List Prioritize List Any other comments
Survey List
Priority Ranking
(from 1 to 5). Please select up to 5 topics.
Topics 1 2 3 4 5
a) Applying technology to the practice of FSE
b) Big data and fire protection
c) Changing demographics and impact on fire safety
d) Data used in FSE
e) Economic impact of fire
f) Environmental protection and sustainability and impact on fire
safety
g) Fire initiation and development
h) Health and safety of fire service personnel and first
responders
i) Human behaviour in fire
j) Industrial fire protection
n) Performance of fire protection systems
o) Resiliency and role of fire protection
p) Risk and fire safety engineering
q) Structures in fire
s) Wildland fires
(from 1 to 5). Please select up to 5 topics.
Topics
1
2
3
4
5
b) Big data and fire protection
c) Changing demographics and impact on fire safety
d) Data used in FSE
e) Economic impact of fire
f) Environmental protection and sustainability and impact on fire
safety
g) Fire initiation and development
h) Health and safety of fire service personnel and first
responders
i) Human behaviour in fire
j) Industrial fire protection
n) Performance of fire protection systems
o) Resiliency and role of fire protection
p) Risk and fire safety engineering
q) Structures in fire
s) Wildland fires
“Better Linking Fire Safety Science and Fire Safety Engineering
Research Priorities for Fire Safety Engineering”
Human Behavior
Building Fires
Moving Forward SFPE Technical Documents Coordinating with the SFPE
Foundation Presentations at international FSE conferences Publish
Articles in fire safety publications Publicize on social media
sites Engagement with funding organizations Targeting research
providers
SFPE Website Roadmap and Roadmap report can be found at:
http://www.sfpe.org/?page=SCRI
Where We Started
Previous Work