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European Sprinkler Campaigns

European Sprinkler Campaigns. Edinburgh, 20 January 2010 Alan Brinson. European Sprinkler Usage Sprinklers/thousand people/year. Norway 125 Sweden 55 Netherlands 42 Germany 38 UK 30 France 22 Spain 19 Italy 14. European Parliament. President Peter Skinner MEP.

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European Sprinkler Campaigns

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  1. European Sprinkler Campaigns Edinburgh, 20 January 2010 Alan Brinson

  2. European Sprinkler Usage Sprinklers/thousand people/year Norway 125 Sweden 55 Netherlands 42 Germany 38 UK 30 France 22 Spain 19 Italy 14

  3. European Parliament

  4. President Peter Skinner MEP

  5. VP Cathy Stihler MEP

  6. Our Aims • Collection of EU fire statistics • Numbers of deaths and injuries • Type of building • Where fire started • Cause of fire • Where deceased were when fire started • Costs of Fire • Hotels Campaign

  7. Penhallow Hotel, Newquay UK, August 2007 3 Deaths!

  8. European Hotels Campaign • Secured support of outgoing Commissioner for Consumer Safety – new Commissioner, John Dalli of Malta, takes office on 1st February • Commission attempted to push the hotel industry into a self-regulatory approach – rejected in November • MEPs calling for a Directive as self-regulation failed • Draft Directive prepared by EFSN • Meanwhile EFSN working with hotel industry on self-regulatory approach

  9. European Statistics Campaign • HMG pushing other governments to collect data • Commission engaged a consultancy • Fire services in several countries lobbying for data to guide policy • “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” • Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

  10. National Developments outside UK

  11. Sprinklers in High-Rise Buildings Building codes are recognising sprinklers, as in high-rises: Austria >32m; >22m with less fire resistance Czech Republic >30m in hotels and residential France >200m Germany >22m commercial; >60m residential Hungary >3 storeys care homes; >13.65m hotels, hospitals shops; >31.65m offices Ireland >30m+phased evacuation hotels, offices Luxembourg >60m Netherlands >70m Poland >55m Portugal >28m Spain >28m hotels; >80m all buildings; Barcelona >50m UK >30m+phased evacuation hotels, offices; >30 m residential; >18m residential Scotland Red text since 2004

  12. Sprinklers in New Hotels UK?

  13. Sprinklers in Dwellings Finland • Government committed to use sprinklers as part of solution to reduce fire deaths by 70% • Likely proposal will be to require retrofit in high-risk social housing and possibly in all new social housing • Same as approach used for care homes

  14. Sprinklers in Dwellings Netherlands • Fire service has brought together all stakeholders • Unlike in UK the water companies are supportive • Matrix of permitted trade-offs & design COP published • Several new housing developments may be fitted with sprinklers to save cost of new fire stations

  15. Sprinklers in Dwellings Norway • Population only 4 million but installs almost as many residential sprinklers as UK! • 20% of all new homes in Norway are sprinklered, especially blocks of flats • Legislative proposal to require sprinklers in all new houses and blocks of flats of more than two storeys

  16. Sprinklers in Dwellings Sweden • Sprinklers widely used, especially in wooden housing • Government to require sprinklers in new care homes • Nordic standards published for: • Residential sprinkler system design • Residential sprinklers • Submitted to CEN • Trade-off standard being developed

  17. Sprinklers in High Rise Residential Buildings

  18. Sprinklers in Warehouses • Warehouses are getting larger and larger • Warehouse fires grow to an unmanageable size by the time fire-fighters are ready to attack them • If fire-fighters go into such buildings they are in great danger from building collapse • But what if someone is trapped in the building? • Fire in Sofa Super Store, Charleston USA on 18 June 2007 killed nine fire-fighters – no sprinklers! • Fire in vegetable warehouse in UK on 2 November 2007 killed four fire-fighters – no sprinklers!

  19. Legislation Across Europe for Sprinklers in Warehouses • Austria: >1,800m2 • Denmark: >5,000m2 or >2,000m2 + high fire load • France: >3,000m2 • Germany: >1,200m2 or >7.5m storage height • Netherlands: usual solution when >1,000m2 • Norway: >800m2 • Portugal: >850 MJ/m2 • Spain: >2,000m2 & >850 MJ/m2 • Sweden: usual fire engineered solution • Scotland: >14,000m2 (England >20,000m2)

  20. Legislation Across Europe for Sprinklers in Shopping Centres • Czech Republic: >1,000m2 • Denmark: >2,000m2 • France: >3,000m2 • Germany: >3,000m2 • Netherlands: usual solution when >1,000m2 • Norway: >1,800m2 • Portugal: >1,600m2 • Spain: >1,500m2 • Switzerland all centres • Sweden: usual fire engineered solution • Scotland all centres (England >2,000m2)

  21. Other Legislative Developments • Assembly Buildings in Germany if >3,600m2 • Hospitals • Many sprinklered in Sweden – fire engineering • New hospitals in Finland • Some in Germany and Netherlands • Prisons • Netherlands all container prisons and many others • New policy in Switzerland

  22. Belgian Fire Sprinkler Network Melle, Belgium – 5 August 2009 9 dead from a fire in a home for the elderly

  23. French Fire Sprinkler Network • Campaigning for sprinklers in care homes, hotels, university cities • Involvement of French Burns Victims’ Association and of French Fire Service • Planning a parallel burn demonstration • Sprinkler training for French Fire Officers

  24. 21-22 April: Brussels 2010 International Fire Sprinkler Conference • Leading international sprinkler experts • Government officials • Networking • www.eurosprinkler.org for more details

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