TECSA will participate in the 4th Edition of the European Symposium on Fire Safety Science (ESFSS 2024), a series of symposia organized triennially in Europe, which will take place Oct. 9-11, 2024, and will be hosted by the Center for Technological Risk Studies (CERTEC), a research group affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona.
The goal is to bring together researchers from Europe and beyond to have exchanges and discussions on fire safety science. The program includes oral and poster sessions, including invited lectures by the world’s top fire science researchers.
In the thematic session “Fire detection and suppression ‘ is scheduled the participation of Eng. Fiorentini (TECSA S.r.l.) and Eng. Piergiacomo Cancelliere (National Fire Department) with a talk entitled ’Fire Protection Systems functional safety requirements in performance-based design: proposed workflow and a simple case application”.
The following is the abstract related to the talk.
According to the Italian Fire Code DM 03/08/2015 (IFC), the performance-based design with the Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) approach can be used whenever the deemed to satisfy solution cannot be put in place. When using FSE approach in an alternative solution, it is mandatory to demonstrate that, starting from a given fire risk level, the level of performance of the safety measures in the considered global strategy satisfies the fire safety goals. Since it’s possible to limit the Heat Release Rate (HRR) curve with automatic fire protection systems activation, according to the latest issue of the IFC DM 18/10/2019, these systems are considered safety critical systems since they operate a significant risk reduction and so “higher availability systems” (HAS) must be installed. This paper aims to describe how functional safety principles can be applied to the design of fire protection systems used in FSE-based design. Functional safety principles will be employed for designing a fire protection system whose reliability is quantitatively assessed and in line with the specific requirements of HASs.
