Research Needs for the Fire Safety Engineering Profession: The SFPE Roadmap CHRIS JELENEWICZ, P.E., FSFPE SFPE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Research Needs for the Fire Safety Engineering Profession: The SFPE Roadmap CHRIS JELENEWICZ, P.E., FSFPE SFPE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Where We Started SFPE Strategic Plan (2015-2017), Appoint a Committee to: Identify, develop, and oversee SFPE s technical products and research work, review new innovations, and help to establish the research agenda for the fire safety engineering profession

SFPE Subcommittee for Research & Innovation Develop a Research Roadmap for the FSE profession Monitor innovation and emerging technology trends in the global fire safety engineering community Communicate to membership and global stakeholders

Previous Work 2000 SFPE Published a Research Agenda Based on Input from a Workshop FPE consultants Industrial facility owners Equipment suppliers Insurance companies Government AHJs/Code Enforcement Academia Fire service

2000 Research Agenda Identify research needed to reduce fire related costs, improve life safety, improve international competitiveness and facilitate regulatory reform. Four areas were identified: Fire phenomena Human behavior Risk Data collection

Other Organizations United Foundation Engineering Conference in 2001 FORUM of Fire Research Laboratory Directors in 2006 BRANZ in 2016 All reports are referenced in Current Roadmap Report

Vision for a Roadmap Define future of SFPEs technical initiatives Transparency & member input (over 500 members) What is needed by practicing FSEs Be a living document Have a long-term focus on advancing FSE A means of coordinating research initiatives (Foundation) A basis for forming partnerships with research & fire safety organizations Act as a bridge between research and practice Become a subtheme of future SFPE conferences

Drafting the Roadmap Preliminary List by Subcommittee Early 2016 Warsaw Workshop May 2016 Denver Workshop September 2016 SFPE AOCCG (Taiwan) November 2016 SFPE Dubai Conference March 2016 Survey Other Fire Organizations Workshop at IAFSS, Lund June 2017

Original List of Topics 1. Structures in fire a. Tall timber buildings 2. Human behaviour 3. Environmental protection and sustainability a. Tall timber buildings b. Hazards of new building materials c. Batteries and energy storage d. PV arrays e. Impact of fire on the environment f. Eco-impact of FP g. Toxicity of fire retardants 4. Big data and FP a. Smart fire fighting b. Smart buildings c. Smart enforcement 5. Economic impact of fire a. Value of Fire Departments to community b. Cost/benefit of proposed code/standards changes 6. Demographics a. Aging population b. Mobility c. Accessibility d. Aging in place and home healthcare 1. Health and wellbeing of FS personnel a. Risk of cancer 2. Resiliency a. Reliability of FP Systems 3. Wildland fires 4. Tunnels and underground FP 5. Risk management 6. Models a. Things that models can t do today 7. Data a. Gaps in the Data b. Data accessibility 8. Fire Protection Systems a. Smoke Detection Nuisance b. New system technologies (i.e. O2 reduction) c. Reliability of systems/aging of systems

Workshops & Conferences SFPE Dubai Conference March 2016 Warsaw Workshop May 2016 Denver Workshop September 2016 SFPE AOCCG (Taiwan) November 2016

Survey 375 Participants Survey Questions are Listed on Roadmap Report 3 Questions Based on Revised List What is Missing from List Prioritize List Any other comments

Priority Ranking (from 1 to 5). Please select up to 5 topics. Survey List Topics 1 2 3 4 5 a) Applying technology to the practice of FSE b) Big data and fire protection c) Changing demographics and impact on fire safety d) Data used in FSE e) Economic impact of fire f) Environmental protection and sustainability and impact on fire safety g) Fire initiation and development h) Health and safety of fire service personnel and first responders i) Human behaviour in fire j) Industrial fire protection k) Informing fire service operations l) Methods used in FSE m) Models used in FSE n) Performance of fire protection systems o) Resiliency and role of fire protection p) Risk and fire safety engineering q) Structures in fire r) Tunnels and underground fire protection s) Wildland fires

Outreach to Other Organizations Workshop at IAFSS, Lund June 2017 Better Linking Fire Safety Science and Fire Safety Engineering Research Priorities for Fire Safety Engineering

Human Behavior

Building Fires

Resilience/Sustainability

Fire Service

Fire Dynamics

Fire Safety Systems

Forensics/Investigations

Wildland Urban Interface

Non-Building Fires

Moving Forward SFPE Technical Documents Coordinating with the SFPE Foundation Presentations at international FSE conferences Publish Articles in fire safety publications Publicize on social media sites Engagement with funding organizations Targeting research providers

SFPE Website Roadmap and Roadmap report can be found at: http://www.sfpe.org/?page=scri Or Click Technical Areas/Research and Innovation

Thanks Chris@SFPE.ORG