CONFERENCE ON HERITAGE UNDER FIRE 2010

Conference

'Heritage Under Fire: Protecting our Past for our Future'

Date: Thursday 21^st January 2010

Venue: Chester Grosvenor Hotel & Spa, Eastgate, Chester, CH1 1LT http://www.chestergrosvenor.co.uk

Co-organised by Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service and The Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)

More information on http://www.ife.org.uk

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME:

9.30	Registration & Coffee
10.00	Welcome	Chief Fire Officer, Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service	Paul Hancock
10.00	Opening Address	Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Fire, Communities & Local Government	Shahid Malik MP
10.15	Key Note Speech	Event Chair – Secretary, Local Authority World Heritage Forum (UK)	Gillian Clarke
10.30	Speaker 1	Historic Impact	Dr. Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage – Why the need to protect?
11.00	Speaker 2	Insurance	Bob Johnson, Technical Survey Manager – Ecclesiastical Insurance
11.30	Coffee & Tea break
11.45	Speaker 3	Fire Protection	Steve Emery, Fire Safety Adviser for English Heritage – Developing a Fire Management Plan
12.15	Speaker 4	Fire Protection – Case Study	Mark Kyffin, Austin Smith Lord (former President of the Chester Society of Architects) – Meeting the challenge an architect’s perspective (sympathetic solutions)
12.45	Lunch & refreshments
13.45	Speaker 5	Contingency/ Salvage Planning	Mike Coull, Heritage Coordinator for the Scottish Fire Services – Contingency/Salvage Planning
14.15	Speaker 6	Contingency/ Salvage Plannin	Grosvenor Museum Chester
15.00	Coffee &Tea break
15.15	Speaker 7	Economic Impact	Neil McCollum, Director of Tourism, Greenwich Council – Lessons from the loss of the Cutty Sark
15.45	Speaker 8	Operational/ER	Dany Cotton, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, London Fire Brigade – Cutty Sark Fire
16.15	Close

Cultural Heritage Disaster Preparedness and Response

Cultural Heritage Disaster Preparedness and Response

Patrimonio Cultural: Preparación y Reacción ante los Desastres

Patrimoine culturel : prévention et gestion des catastrophes

International Symposium Proceedings
Salar Jung Museum
Hyderabad, India
23-27 November 2003

©ICOM, all rights reserved

Link to the proceedings: http://icom.museum/disaster_preparedness_book/index.html

AN INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW OF FIRE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

AN INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW OF FIRE PROTECTION OF
CULTURAL HERITAGE

Kyriakos Papaioannou
Dept. of Civil Engineering-AISTOTLE UNIVERSITY
PO Box 429-541 24 THESSALONIKI-HELLAS
Tel+30-2310-995793,fax +30-2310-995729,
e-mail: kirpap@civil.auth.gr

SUMMARY

During the last decades, among various countries authorities, fire experts,conservationists and citizens a great concern on the conservation of cultural heritage including fire protection has been arisen.
In this paper a global international review about the state of the art of this important matter is given. It is defined briefly the main terms and the philosophy of conservation, the principles of the fire safety design both in the prescriptive and in the modern fire safety engineering approach.
Information about significant fires in historic buildings and sites, as well on several related international activities of different organizations and bodies is quoted.
Finally a summary of two research activities going on in Europe is described.

Full paper is available at http://www.vigilfuoco.it/special/isa/biblioteca/pdf/dl_pdf/21/papaioannou_54_76.pdf
Accessed date: 26/10/2009

FIRE SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN HERITAGE BUILDINGS: THE CURRENT SCENARIO IN MALAYSIA

This paper is presented in CIPA 2009 at Kyoto, Japan (11-15 Oct 2009).

ABSTRACT:

In Malaysia, there are many heritage buildings with an architectural and historical significance that influenced by several architecture styles including a traditional Malay architecture, the Portuguese architecture, the Dutch architecture, and the architecture styles brought by British (e.g. Moorish, Tudor, Neo-Classical and Neo-Gothic). Most of them are worthy to be listed as Heritage Buildings or National Heritage Buildings under the National Heritage Act 2005 (Act 645). The Malaysian government is undertaking many efforts to promote conservation and preservation of heritage buildings in the country. Some of the buildings have been changed to different functions from its original (adaptive-reuse) such as into museums, libraries, offices or hotels. It is however, in the past few years there are few priceless heritage buildings were badly damaged or burnt down by fire includes the People Museum, Melaka (2001), Rumah Pak Ali , Gombak (2003) and Sarawak Club, Kuching (2006). In one case, it was given a total loss approximately up to MYR 5 millions. Fire is one of the greatest threats to heritage buildings not only to the building’s occupants but also to the building’s fabric and contents. Heritage buildings are irreplaceable but vulnerable to fire as there is a combination of several factors: large scale buildings; flammable priceless contents; large numbers of visitors; and existing structures weak on fire resistance. Unfortunately, until today, there are relatively no sufficient legislations or guidelines on fire safety for heritage buildings in Malaysia. In fact, the Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia (FRDM) stressed the safety of life is the ultimate principle of fire safety in a building. Property protection which includes protection to building’s fabrics and contents of heritage buildings is not really been prioritised. The purpose of this research is to investigate the current fire safety management in heritage buildings in Malaysia through a series of interview and observation surveys. In this research, thirty seven heritage buildings have been surveyed as a building sampling. The finding found that most of the buildings are still having a poor fire safety management. From the survey, seventeen leading fire safety management problems in the buildings have been identified.

Full paper is published at http://cipa.icomos.org/fileadmin/papers/Kyoto2009/11.pdf

SUITABLE FIRE EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENTS

List of suitable fire extinguishing equipments

Type of fires	Suitable Extinguishing Equipment/ Tool
Combustible solid materials	i) Water fire extinguisher ii) Dry powder fire extinguisher iii) Water spray
Inflammable liquids	i) Dry powder fire extinguisher ii) Foam fire extinguisher iii) Carbon dioxide fire extinguisher iv) Water spray
Flammable gases	i) Dry powder fire extinguisher ii) Carbon dioxide fire extinguisher
Electrical fires	i) Carbon dioxide fire extinguisher
Combustible metals	i) Dry powder fire extinguisher ii) Dry sand iii) Soda ash iv) Asbestos graphite
Combustible cooking materials	i) Wet Chemical (potassium acetate, carbonate, or citrate)

Source: JBPM (2004) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher

FIRE CLASSES

Fire classes in USA, Europe, Australasia and Malaysia

USA	Europe/Australasia/ Malaysia	Fuel/Heat source
Class A	Class A	Ordinary combustibles
Class B	Class B	Flammable liquids
	Class C	Flammable gases
Class C	Class E	Electrical equipment
Class D	Class D	Combustible metals
Class K	Class F	Cooking oil or fat

SEMINAR PENGAWASAN & KESELAMATAN KEBAKARAN BANGUNAN

KEMASKINI (22/05/09):

Seminar Pengawasan dan Keselamatan Kebakaran di Bangunan anjuran Persatuan Sukan, Kebajikan dan Kebudayaan (PERSKEB) dan JBPM telah mendapat sambutan hebat daripada para peserta. Adalah dianggarkan seramai lebih 350 peserta menghadiri seminar satu hari ini, kebanyakkan peserta adalah wakil-wakil dari agensi kerajaan, syarikat swasta dan universiti tempatan. Tahniah diucapkan kepada penganjur kerana menganjurkan seminar terbabit kearah meningkatkan kesedaran orang awam terhadap kepentingan keselamatan kebakaran. Seminar yang diadakan sebelum ini di Pahang dan Kuala Lumpur juga diberitakan mendapat sambutan ramai. Walaupun seminar tersebut berjalan lancar tetapi sedikit cacat dengan kegagalan pihak penganjur dan hotel mengendalikan dengan lancar jamuan pagi dan petang (makanan tengahari yang disajikan pun tidak beberapa sedap). Tempat letak kereta bertingkat di Regency Hotel yang baru dibuka 3 bulan juga tidak mesra pengguna, namun begitu ia adalah percuma.

MAKLUMAT SEMINAR:
Pihak Bomba Malaysia, Negeri Perak akan mengadakan satu seminar mengenai Pengawasan & Keselamatan Kebakaran di Bangunan yang akan diadakan di Tower Recency Ipoh pada 21 Mei 2009. Orang ramai digalakan menyertai seminar ini.

Seminar ini adalah dianjur bersama Persatuan Kebajikan dan Kebudayaan dan Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Negeri Perak.

Siapa Patut Hadir:

Arkitek, Jurutera, Juru Perunding, Pegawai Keselamatan Bangunan, Pemilik Premis, Kontraktor Kebombaan, Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan dan Orang Perseorangan yang berhubung kait dengan peranan Merekabentuk, mMerancang, Menyelenggara dan Memasang Pemasangan Kelengkapan Kebakaran serta Pembangunan Premis.

Penyertaan

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Persatuan Sukan Kebajikan dan Kebudayaa, Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Negeri Perak (PERSKEB)

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Urusetia Seminar Pengawasan & Keselamatan Di Bangunan

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