Frankfurt safety & security event

SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden is organising the Fourth International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS) to be held in Frankfurt, Germany on 17-19 March.

Themes of the symposium

will be risk & security, human behaviour in tunnels, passive

and active fire protection & construction, fire fighting, ventilation and fire dynamics. Keynote speakers are scheduled to open each of the two and a half days of discussions. These are:

Kenneth Cummins, chief security officer, Sound Transit (Greater Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority), Seattle, US; Jeffrey A Slotnick, Setracon Inc., US – security industry consultant; Dr Anders Lönnermark, senior research scientist at the Department of Fire Technology, SP Technical Research Institute, Sweden; Alan Brinson, executive director, European Fire Sprinkler Network, UK; Prof Reinhard Ries, chief fire & rescue officer, Frankfurt am Main Fire & Rescue Services, Germany; Prof Arnold Dix, independent technical & legal tunnel risk adviser, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Honorary sponsors include the ITA, ITA-COSUF, the NFPA, the International Road Transport Union Academy, and the International Association for Fire Safety Science.

Other scheduled speakers

will come from Australia,

Austria, Canada, Finland,

France, Germany, Greece,

Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and US.

The official working language of the symposium is English. There is an optional banquet on Thursday 18 March and a visit to the Frankfurt Metro fire test facility on 19 March.

The organiser, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, develops and disseminates technology to assist the development and competitiveness of industry, the improve safety in society, to support sustainable development and to help protect the environment. The Fire Technology department has performed text and done research in tunnel safety since 1992.

T&TI is media partner of

ISTSS 2010.