Controlling the Spread of Fire in High Risk Buildings

Event overview

Join us at this essential CPD event taking place in Manchester on 22 March 2018.

Highlights from the fire conference programme include:

Tickets are just £130+VAT which includes lunch and refreshments.

09.30	Registration & Refreshments
09.55	Welcome to the conference	Phil Hammond, LABC
10.00	Hackitt Interim Report - the key points that may affect professionals in the industry	Barry Turner, LABC
10.30	Scene setting - what is "high risk?"	David Ware, Fire Risk Consultancy
11.00	Crowd Behaviour & Emergency Management	Anne Templeton, University of Kent
11.30	Structural Safety in High Rise	Richard Hill, Arup Andrew Lawrence, Arup
12.00	Lunch & Networking
13.00	A better way to stop passing the buck and achieve better cover	Graham De Roy, Griffiths & Armour
13.30	Arups' current top 10 design and specification concerns	Paul Williams, Arup
14.00	What does the Grenfell Tower fire and the Hackitt review mean for the construction sector	Emily Monastiriotis, Simmons and Simmons
14.30	We see this thousands of times - why?	Rob Burridge, LABC Warranty Richard Smith, LABC Warranty
15.00	Networking & Refreshments
15.15	How fire fighters respond and what you've done that will hamper them	Merlyn Forrer, Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service
15.45	Should industry agree to limit who can work on high risk buildings?	Peter O''Reilly, Institution of Fire Engineers
16.15	Conference summary and close	Phil Hammond, LABC

*Programme subject to change

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