Tall Building Fire Safety Network 3rd International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference University of Greenwich, London 8, 9, 10 th July 2015

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1 Tall Building Fire Safety Network 3rd International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference University of Greenwich, London 8, 9, 10 th July 2015 Conference Programme and Delegate Information V8

2 Contents: 1. Sponsors, Speakers and Supporters 2. Tall Building Fire Safety Network 3. Conference Agenda 4. Speaker Profiles 5. Social Programme 6. Conference Location & Travel 7. Hotels 8. Help?

3 1. Conference Speakers, Sponsors and Supporters

4 2. Tall Building Fire Safety Network Mission Statement: To collectively advance the understanding of fire risk management in tall buildings, during design, construction, occupation and firefighting operations. This will be achieved by group scrutiny of available research data, relevant innovative products and development of a guidance document for fire safety in tall buildings. Terms of Reference: 1. Membership of the group will be formed primarily by staff representing owner/management of tall buildings; 2. Membership of the group is also open to key stakeholders involved in fire safety within tall buildings; 3. The group will meet twice a year at suitable venues convenient to the membership; 4. The group will be administered by Horizonscan (organisation of meetings speakers, minutes, etc.); 5. Membership of the group is voluntary, and any expenses incurred are down to individual members; Steering Committee: Chair: Secretary: Russ Timpson (Horizonscan) Prof Ed Galea (University of Greenwich), Paul Stewart (London Fire Brigade), Tom Gilbert (BB7), Jim Creak (MOE)

5 3. Conference Agenda Wednesday 8 th July 2015 Session 1 Fire Prevention and Management in Tall Buildings Sponsor - FPA 08:45 Delegates to be seated in the Howe Lecture Theatre 09:00 Official opening (TBC) 09:10 Keynote Fire and Life Safety in This the New Era of the Supertall Building Peter A. Weismantle FAIA, RIBA, Director of Supertall Building Technology, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP, Chicago, US. (note: all presentation timings include a 5 minute Q&A session at the end) 09:50 Presentation 1: Lacrosse Incident, Melbourne Justin Francis 10:15 Presentation 2: Fire Risk Management Jim Glocking 10:40 Presentation 3: Fire Risk Management Process Ben Bradford 11:05 Tea & Coffee Break 11:30 Presentation 4: TBC 11:55 Presentation 5: BIM and Tall Buildings Peter Caplehorn DipArch RIBA 12:20 Panel Discussion 12:40 Lunch Session 2 Fire Detection and Alarm in Tall Buildings Sponsor Advanced Alarms 13:30 Keynote : New Innovations in Tall Building Fire Detection - Advanced Alarms 14:00 Presentation 6: Time and the Tall Building: Case studies of new technologies that are being implemented in the US to improve safety for occupants and emergency - Nathan Wittasek 14:25 Presentation 7: Is phased evacuation credible? Russ Timpson 14:50 Presentation 8: TBC 15:15 Tea & Coffee Break 15:40 Presentation 9: Detection/Alarm and Fire Engineering LFB Fire Engineering 16:05 Presentation 10: TBC 16:30 Panel Discussion 17:00 Conference Day 1 closes 19:30 Networking Social Event (see Social Programme)

6 Thursday 9 th July 2015 Session 3 Fire Evacuation and Human Behaviour in Tall Buildings Sponsor - TBC 08:45 Delegates to be seated in the Howe Lecture Theatre 09:00 Welcome Tom Gilbert, BB7 09:10 Official opening Day 2 Jim Creak, Means of Escape 09:20 Keynote Prof. Ed Galea, Greenwich University (note: all presentation timings include a 5 minute Q&A session at the end) 09:50 Presentation 11: Fire Engineering & Escape LFB Fire Engineering 10:15 Presentation 12: Evacuating Tall Buildings people with reduced mobility - Alison Hayward, Hospital Aids 10:40 Presentation 13: Evacuate and Disperse Mike Wagland, Credit Suisse 11:05 Tea & Coffee Break 11:30 Presentation 14: TBC 11:55 Presentation 15: Fire safety for tall buildings in Denmark fire engineering best practice & future challenges Jens Husberg 12:20 Panel Discussion 12:40 Lunch Session 4 Fire Containment and Passive Fire Barriers in Tall Buildings Sponsor TBC 13:30 Keynote Gareth Dean, Sharpfibre TBC 14:00 Presentation 16: How well do you know your buildings? Andy Jones 14:25 Presentation 17: Tall buildings upside down can we learn from London Underground s experience? Paul Bryant 14:50 Presentation 18: Fire Safety and Tall Building Facades Steve Swales 15:15 Tea & Coffee Break 15:40 Presentation 19: Timber and Tall Buildings Jesse Heitz 16:05 Presentation 20: TBC 16:30 Panel Discussion 17:00 Conference Day 1 closes 19:30 Gala Dinner featuring Sir Ranulph Fiennes (see Social Programme)

7 Friday 10 th July Tall Building Themed days Theme 1 Firefighting in Tall Buildings Sponsor TBC Host London Fire Brigade 08:45 Delegates to be seated in lecture theatre 09:00 Welcome London Fire Brigade 09:20 Keynote TBC (note: all presentation timings include a 10 minute Q&A session at the end) 09:50 Presentation 1: 500 decisions in 500 seconds Justin Francis 10:40 Presentation 2: Current Tall Building Firefighting Issues Mark Fishlock 11:05 Tea & Coffee Break 11:30 Presentation 3: Tall Building Firefighting Command Peter Cowup 12:20 Panel Discussion 12:40 Lunch 13:30 Presentation 4: Tall Building Firefighter Training West Mids F&R Service 14:20 Presentation 5: Tall Building Firefighting Equipment Innovation - LFB 15:15 Tea & Coffee Break 15:40 Presentation 6: TBC 16:30 Panel Discussion 17:00 Firefighting in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes

8 Friday 10 th July Tall Building Themed days Theme 2 Security and Terrorist Threats in Tall Buildings Sponsor TBC Host - CSARN 08:45 Delegates to be seated in lecture theatre 09:00 Welcome Steve Watts, CSARN 09:20 Keynote UK Government Security Advisor (note: all presentation timings include a 10 minute Q&A session at the end) 09:50 Real Time Mapping of Tall Building Security Incidents Paul Snudden, Andvance Laser imaging 10:40 Martin Smith, The Security Company 11:05 Tea & Coffee Break 11:30 Andy Coles, Frontline Security 12:20 Panel Discussion 12:40 Lunch 13:30 NaCTSO 14:20 MPS firearms 15:15 Tea & Coffee Break 15:40 TBC 16:30 Panel Discussion 17:00 Security in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes

9 Friday 10 th July Tall Building Themed days Theme 3 Resilience and Business Continuity in Tall Buildings Sponsor TBC Host Continuity Forum 08:45 Delegates to be seated in lecture theatre 09:00 Welcome Sara McKenna 09:10 Official opening Resilience and Business Continuity in Tall Buildings Theme Day Russell Price 09:20 Keynote TBC (note: all presentation timings include a 10 minute Q&A session at the end) 09:50 Presentation 1 10:40 Presentation 2 11:05 Tea & Coffee Break 11:30 Presentation 3 12:20 Panel Discussion 12:40 Lunch 13:30 Presentation 4 14:20 Presentation 5 15:15 Tea & Coffee Break 15:40 Presentation 6 16:30 Panel Discussion 17:00 Resilience in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes

10 4. Speaker Profiles Professor Ed Galea is the founding director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) of the University of Greenwich in London where he has worked in the area of Computational Fire Engineering (CFE) research since FSEG are developers of the EXODUS suite of evacuation and crowd dynamics software and the SMARTFIRE fire simulation software, which have users in 35 countries around the world. His personal research interests include human behaviour in emergency evacuation situations, crowd dynamics, evacuation and crowd dynamics simulation, fire dynamics and CFD fire simulation. His research has applications to the building, aviation, maritime and rail industries. He is the author of over 300 academic and professional publications, the vice chair of the International Association of Fire Safety Science and serves on a number of standards committees concerned with fire and evacuation for organisations such as; IMO, ISO, BSI and the SFPE Task Group on Human Behaviour in Fire. He has served on several major Inquires and legal cases as an expert in fire and evacuation including: the Paddington Rail Crash, the Swiss Air MD11 crash, and the Admiral Duncan Pub bombing. He has successfully supervised 20 PhD students in fire and evacuation related studies. He is a Guest Professor at Ghent University Belgium and the Institut Supérieur des Matériaux et Mécaniques Avancés (ISMANS), Le Mans, France where he teaches on Fire Safety Engineering MSc courses. He has won a number of awards for his work including; 2001 British Computer Society Gold Medal, 2002 Queen s Anniversary prize, 2006 Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Award; 2008 SFPE Jack Bono Award, 2010 Royal Aeronautical Society Bronze Award and the 2014 The Guardian University Award for Research Impact. He is an associate editor of the Royal Aeronautical Journal and open access journal Fire Science Reviews. Ben Bradford Founder and Managing Director of BB7 Fire Risk + Resilience, voted by IFSEC Global to be among the IFSEC 40 most influential people in fire and security, Ben holds duel professional status as both a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Surveyor. He is the Chairman of the Fire Industry Associations (FIA) Professional Standards Working Group and also a member of both the Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Engineering Councils. Chairman of the Institution of Fire Engineers (London Branch) Marketing and Events Committee and member of the IFE Competency and Ethics Committee. Ben also sits on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Building Control) Professional Group Board and is the principle author of PAS 7: 2013 Fire Risk Management System Requirements for and on behalf of British Standards Institution. Prior to founding BB7 he gained national and international experience as a Director for a large independent Fire Engineering Consultancy, and has worked/presented in rapidly emerging countries such as Vietnam, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Libya, Qatar, and Nigeria. He gained a sound understanding of building pathology, Construction, Building Legislation, Codes and Standards whilst working as a Chartered Building Control Surveyor in London and the South East. During his career in Building Control he gained a BSc Hon s in Building Surveying, an MSc in Building Engineering which incorporated Evacuation Modelling and he also gained an AMBA Accredited MBA via Kent Business School. In May 2014 he will become Vice-President of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers

11 Mark Jim Glockling Redding is has the over Technical 20 years Director experience of the Fire in the Protection insurance Association. industry advising commercial Originally a Chemical and corporate Engineer, clients he did on his all PhD aspects in Nuclear of Engineering property and at the business UK interruption Atomic Energy risk. Authority Mark gained before considerable undertaking experience a post doctorate of high rise in fire office extinguishing buildings working technologies. in Allianz He Global s has worked financial as a university sector where lecturer clients in included Chemical Canary Engineering Wharf & and Deutsche Fire Engineering Bank and and has as more a Forensic recently Fire been Investigator. closely involved Immediately in developing prior to joining Mitsui Sumitomo s the FPA he was approach the Associate to the assessment Director of and the Special underwriting Projects of Group high rise at LPC buildings. and Mark sits on a number of insurance related working groups where industry then BRE. Jim continues to undertake research into fire protection with his knowledge is shared and standards developed. With less academic credentials than sizeable team of experts with particular emphasis on solving high risk detection / some of his fellow presenters Mark would describe his approach to the subject of high suppression rise buildings issues as and experience-based has worked extensively and practical. with the ABI, major UK insurers and the MOD. He has responsibility for the annual UK insurer research budget which is administered through the RISCAuthority scheme. Peter Cowup is in his 33 rd year of service with London Fire Brigade (LFB) and is an Assistant Commissioner with responsibility for operational policy. Peter heads up a department that takes the policy lead for LFB's firefighting, rescue, hazardous materials, respiratory protective equipment and incident communications capabilities. In practice, the department produces the risk assessments, policies and procedures and training and equipment specifications which help to ensure that LFB delivers a safe and effective operational response to a wide range of emergency incidents. Peter s role also includes attending and providing support to larger operational incidents at both a tactical (Silver) and strategic (Gold) level of command. During his career Peter has attended and taken command roles at a wide range of significant operational incidents. These include a number of major fires, a major incident at Chancery Lane LUL station and at Kings Cross station during the 7/7 London bombings. More recently Peter attended the helicopter crash in Vauxhall in 2013 as LFB s principal media spokesperson and acted as the Gold fire commander for the cable tunnel fire which occurred in Kingsway, Holborn in April Through his work with CLG/CFRA, Peter took on the role of principal author for the revised GRA that covers firefighting in high rise buildings. This was a significant project, which run over three years and involved close working across the UK fire service and with stakeholders such as trades unions and the Health and Safety Executive. The GRA was published in February 2014 and provides UK fire services with information on a range of hazards associated with high rise fires and guidance on how these can be controlled through measures such as those associated with planning, training and command and control.

12 Justin Francis - 19 years of experience within the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service has seen a significant amount of experience gained whilst working as an operational Station Officer within the Central Business District of Brisbane, Australia. This experience includes performing the role of incident controller at many incidents in tall buildings, 4 years of working within the Community Safety field focussed on Building Approvals of significant building developments, liaison with private industry and compliance and prosecution. This combined knowledge highlighted a shortfall in fire fighter skills and prompted establishment of training programs aimed at strengthening fire fighter knowledge on Special Fire Services within the built environment. My formal qualifications, a Bachelor Degree of Emergency Management from Charles Sturt University have assisted to extend my knowledge outside of my organisation. My current work area is operationally based and is broad in area, ranging from Technical Rescue through to bush fire management in the field of Bush Fire Behaviour Analysis. Peter A. Weismantle - Director of Supertall Building Technology at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) in Chicago, is responsible for overseeing the technical development of the firm s supertall projects from concept to completion. His current projects include Greenland Center, a 600+ meter tall project in Wuhan, China; Dongcun Center, a 468 meter tall tower in Chengdu, China and the Kingdom Tower, a project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that, when completed, will be the tallest building in the world at more than 1000 meters. Before joining AS+GG in 2008, Peter was an Associate Partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, where he began his career in 1977 and served as senior technical architect on several supertall towers, including Shanghai s 88-story Jin Mao Tower and the 162- story Burj Khalifa, currently the world s tallest building. He is currently the Chairman of the CTBUH Advisory Group, immediate past- Chairman of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings (CCHRB), President of the Board of Directors of the Safety Glazing Certification Council (SGCC) and was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2010 and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in Paul Bryant - Paul is the founder of Kingfell from 1995 which grew into a + 5m one stop shop for fire engineering and protection. He divested his interest in system engineering in Paul started his career with the Fire Offices Committee (FOC) in the early 1980s, after receiving an honours degree in electrical engineering. As Technical Officer he was responsible for the approval of fire detection and alarm systems. When the FOC merged into the Loss Prevention Council, Paul s remit expanded into standards writing on an international basis. He joined London Underground as Head of Fire Engineering in the 1990sand oversaw a team of engineers responsible for the fire protection systems in all LU stations. Today, Paul is recognised as an expert in the application of fire strategies. He wrote British Standard PAS 911 as well as his book on the subject Fire strategies strategic thinking. He lectures all over the world Paul is also a Freeman of the City of London and a liveried member of the Worshipful Company of Firefighters.

13 Steve Watts - Strategic Security and Policing Consultant and Associate Director CSARN Steve served for over 31 years in UK Policing rising to become Assistant Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary where as well as being part of the top team directing the strategy of the Force, he was responsible for over 2,500 Police Officers and Staff. In this far-reaching role, Steve was the force lead for areas including: Critical Incident Management, Intelligence, Criminal Justice, Firearms and High Tech Crime. In addition to his Force responsibilities, Steve was active regionally and nationally as part of the ACPO. He was South East Regional Lead on ACPO with responsibility for professional management of the Regional Counter Terrorism Unit. National Lead on the Investigation into Health care related deaths and for Investigative Interviewing. In 2000 Steve commanded the UK team investigating War Crimes in Kosovo on behalf of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the United Nations, In 2008 Steve took up a new challenge in the Middle East where, as Chief Strategic Policing Advisor he leads a team supporting the strategic and operational development of the ambitious Abu Dhabi Police in their plan to become a world class policing leader. In 2010 Abu Dhabi Police was the top performing entity (agency) in the Emirate. Peter Caplehorn is the Policy Director and Deputy Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association, where he leads the work to ensure that the UK and EU policy and regulatory framework particularly for technical and sustainability issues supports a growing and profitable UK construction products industry. A Chartered Architect with more than 30 years of experience in construction, Peter has for more than 15 years engaged with the wider industry in a number of key national roles. He is currently working closely with the Royal Institute of British Architects, British Standards Institution, Building Research Establishment, Health and Safety Executive, and the UK government s Department for Business, Innovation and & Skills. Peter is the deputy chair of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC) and currently chairs CB- (the British Standards Institution s strategic committee for construction). His main focus recently has been the new CDM Regulations, application of Building Information Modelling ( BIM ) within construction regulations and future building regulations. Prior to joining the Association, Peter was the Technical Director at the awardwinning architectural practice Scott Brownrigg. Peter is the author of Whole Life Costing: A New Approach (Routledge, 2012) and has frequently published articles for the RIBA Journal, Building Design, Building and others. He has given evidence at several All Party Parliamentary Enquiries, and appeared on a number of television and radio interviews and live event programmes including Grand Designs Live. Peter was awarded the BA (Hons) from the Portsmouth School of Architecture, and has been a member of the RIBA Council since 2009.

14 Jesse Heitz - Jesse Heitz - obtained a BA from the University of St. Thomas in In July of 2014 he obtained a MA from King's College London. He is currently in the final months of a MSt in Building History from the University of Cambridge. Beginning in September 2015, he will begin studying for a Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of St. Andrews. He has written and presented over a dozen history research papers at both domestic and international conferences, with two additional research papers to be presented at conferences in He has two books due out in He has been a firefighter with the Chaska Fire Department since 2012, and has served as the Training Officer for the Carver County Fire Departments Hazardous Materials Response Group since 2014 Nathan Wittasek has twenty years of experience working in the fire protection and regulatory arenas. Nate brings a practical approach to the fire protection engineering field that reflects his diverse training and experiences in academia, codes consulting, fire protection engineering, sustainable design, and the fire service. His experience includes failure analysis, fire engineering, systems design and building codes consulting for commercial and infrastructure projects in North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Nate has specialized in fire life safety systems and approaches that are used in tall buildings, and is currently involved with several tall buildings projects in various stages of design and construction. Nate is a registered fire protection engineer in the state of California, sits on the fire safety committee for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and is a regular instructor for the American Institute of Architects, California Polytechnic University and the UCLA Extension, where he focuses on regulatory issues, building, fire and zoning codes as well as accessibility. Mike Wagland current role as Global Head of Health and Safety at Credit Suisse Mike is responsible for developing and implementing the long term strategy to the bank's operations across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. A central part of this strategy involves working with the Bank s global outsourced FM partner organisation, to ensure their operational and compliance health & safety risks are effectively mitigated. Career Highlights include: Introducing safe systems of work to deal with auditory shock and fire safety in Indian call centres. Managing construction and operational safety systems in a datacenter network across eight European countries. Developing a strategy and process for delivering health & safetyrelated sales and operational support to an international property management company.

15 Jens Husbjerg started in 1991 his career at Rockwool Internationals. Jens was an authority having jurisdiction that requires approvals compliance the Danish building and fire code. Since then he has worked as fire consultant for 15 years for major consultants and was in 2005 educated Master of Fire Safety from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with the master thesis developing a design guideline in mechanical in-fire ventilation in Denmark. Jens has extensive experiences with complex construction projects e.g. as discipline leader for the development of fire safety strategies of sports arenas, urban projects, airports in Oman, a new university in Beijing and a tunnel in Sweden. He has performed fire analysis for structural steel and fire analysis for hallow precast concrete planks. Jens is chief fire consultant in MOE Consulting Engineers in Copenhagen and has in the recently years worked intensively as PM and DL on larger projects with international leading architects and engineers. MOE has developed the fire safety strategy with BIG Architect for a new high rise building in Aarhus Harbor. One current project proposal is the engineering report including the fire safety strategy and authority approval for a new high rise office building, urban café facilities and underground parking area. The building complex shall be located just in front of Tivoli s main entrance in central Copenhagen. Jim Creak Editor Means of Escape web based publication and Managing Director of Jalite Plc manufacturers of photoluminescent escape route illumination materials and systems. Jim has been involved in Fire Safety for 30 years and Chairman of the British Standard Technical Committee responsible for the development of application Standards for escape route signing. Over those 30 years into escape behaviour, exit choice and escape route illumination has been influenced greatly by working with Dr Gerry Webber at the BRE, the late Dr Jonathan D Sime at Portsmouth Polytechnic and the late Dr Guylene Proulx at NRC in Canada. Steve Swales Graduating in Building Construction then Architectural Science, Steve was immediately employed by the Welsh School of Architecture to develop specifications for fire resistant external cladding and façade systems. This lead to a position with Rockwool where he delivered the first two third-party approvals for construction products in the UK - perimeter barrier firestops for curtain walling and fire-resistant stone wool lamella cores for composite panels. Upon joining the Siderise Group in 1991, Steve spent sixteen years leading the development of the Lamatherm brand and ultimately held commercial responsibility for the Group. Following six or so years of directorships with various businesses in the composite panel and capital equipment sectors, Steve re-joined Siderise in 2011 with responsibility for commercialising the brand overseas, notably in the Middle East, and the provision of support to key projects globally. Currently Steve has Group responsibility for all Commercial, Marketing, Technical and Product Development processes. Recent focus has included the undertaking of large scale fire resistance tests to EN1364 Part 4, comprising non-rated curtain walling in conjunction with edge of slab firestops.

16 Martin Smith With nearly 40 years experience in the security and crime prevention industries, Martin Smith is a well-known, colourful (especially his jackets) and highly respected personality in the information assurance and cyber security world. He is an established and successful businessman and philanthropist, communicator, visionary, and internationally recognised author, speaker and (latterly) blogger on his passion of improving online trust. He has an extensive and enviable network of security contacts around the world. Martin gained his degree in behavioural psychology before spending 15 years as a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force Security (Provost) Branch employed on the whole range of policing and security duties. After being awarded the MBE for this work, he left the Service to establish a second career in the commercial sector. He joined Touche Ross Management Consultants before becoming the Senior Director of Corporate Security for Kroll Associates (UK). He then joined the Standard Chartered Bank as Head of Information Security before (in 1997) forming The Security Company (International) Limited. Martin is a Fellow of The Security Institute, and a Freeman of both the City of London and the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. He is an active member of both ASIS International and the Information Assurance Advisory Council. He is a member of the Independent Advisory Panel of the Office for Nuclear Regulation.

17 5. Social Programme One of the main objectives of the conference is for delegates to meet and network with colleagues from around the world. To that end the following social programme has been arranged: Wednesday 8 th July, from 7pm: Networking Reception at the Meantime micro-brewery. With a wide selection of great beers and ales, this venue is a great place to discuss the subjects of the day. Pay as you go bar. Located within the campus, 500 meters of the conference venue. Dress: informal + conference badges Thursday 9 th July, from 6:30pm: Gala Dinner in the Painted Hall. The magnificent Painted Hall will provide a superb setting for the Gala Dinner. This is a formal event. Black tie or dark lounge suit is the dress code. The meal is included in the full delegate fee. Accompanying drinks (wine, soft drinks, etc.) will be available from a cash bar. A string quartet will play during the evening. The evening will feature an after dinner speech by the World renowned explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Findraising for Help for Heroes will be part of the evening. Often described as the World s Greatest Living Explorer, Ran Fiennes is the first person to reach both North and South Poles by foot. He also made it into the record books by completing seven marathons on seven continents (including Antarctica) in seven days soon after receiving emergency heart surgery. Only then did he take up climbing, starting with the North Face of the Eiger. At the age of 65, at his third attempt, Ran became the oldest Briton to conquer Everest. In 2013 Ran launched The Coldest Journey, an attempt to cross Antarctica on foot during the southern winter where the temperature falls to minus 90 C. He was forced to withdraw when he suffered severe frostbite, but still claims that if you are lucky enough to be able to walk around without a crutch, you might as well go for it. Ran Fiennes inspires and entertains conference and after dinner audiences throughout the world. Presentations draw a connection between nature s most dangerous and difficult challenges, and the day-to-day hurdles we all face. Teamwork, determination, patience, discipline and creative thinking are all critical in expeditions; we may not risk our own lives in the same way, but the parallels are clear even in less hazardous occupations.

18 6. University of Greenwich Greenwich Campus is located in the old Royal Naval College, which it moved into in the 1990s when the premises were sold by the Royal Navy. This makes it look like an old University when actually it's a former polytechnic which only became a university in the 1990s. Three of the university s schools are based here: the Business School, the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and the School of Humanities & Social Sciences. The campus is also home to the university s Greenwich Maritime Institute, a specialist maritime management, policy and history teaching and research institute. Travel: Trafalgar Tavern Painted Hall Main Conference Venue Greenwich Maritime Docklands Light Railway station

19 7. Hotels The conference hotel with a preferential conference rate is: Devonport House Link: Contact & quote booking code: HORI Eileen Murnane - Reservations De Vere Venues Devonport House T: F: E: emurnane@deverevenues.co.uk Devonport House, King William Walk, Greenwich, London, SE10 9JW 8. Help? Before the conference: Updates and information will be posted on our Linkedin page Tall Building Fire Safety Network (please join if you have not done so already) We will also send updates regularly During the conference: We will have a delegate help desk operating during the conference. A dedicated conference team will be on hand to answer your questions and make sure you have the best conference possible. At any time: Contact conference director Russ Timpson: Office: Mobile: russ.timpson@horizonscanbcp.com Web:

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