1 Welcome to the 7th Congress National Fire Safety & Science Theme: Understanding fires 5 and 6 November 2014 #FSScongres2014 Welcome by Leo Zaal (Managing Director IFV) 3 Start by Elie van Strien (Chairmann) 4 Programme 5th November 2014 Plenary sessions 10.20 – 11.00 a.m. Presentation Bart Merci 11.00 – 11.20 a.m. Break 11.20 – 12.00 a.m. Presentation Lieuwe de Witte 12.00 – 12.40 p.m. Presentation Steve Kerber 12.40 – 01.30 p.m. Lunch 5 Follow-up programme 01.30 – 03.00 p.m. Workshops (3 options) 03.00 – 03.30 p.m. Break 03.30 – 03.40 p.m Introduction of nominees 03.40 – 04.40 p.m. Student presentations 04.40 – 04.50 p.m. Presentation of the thesis award Closure: Nibbles and drinks 6 Presentation The possible role of CFD simulations in determining smoke movements in the event of a fire Bart Merci (Ghent University, Belgium) 7 Break (outside congress room) 8 Presentation Objective based Fire Prevention Lieuwe de Witte (Nieman Raadgevende Ingenieurs, Netherlands) 9 Presentation Why the fire Service needs Research Steve Kerber (Underwriters Laboratories, USA) 10 After lunch: Workshops Zaal Spreker Titel Workshop 1 (De Ambitie) Rudolf van Mierlo Tests and simulations versus reality Workshop 2 (De Brauerszaal) Tobias Pflüger Fire in a facade with an exterior insulation and finishing system on 29-5-2012 Workshop 3 (De Samenwerking) Ruud van Herpen Reliability of fire safety objectives 11 Lunch (outside congress room and Foyer) 12 Break (outside congress room) 13 Thesis award Introduction of the nominees for the IFV-VVBA thesis award David den Boer (VVBA, Netherlands) 14 Student presentation Evaluation of the burning behaviour of wood products in the context of structural fire design Arne Inghelbrecht (Ghent University, Belgium) 15 Student presentation Fire resistance of a floor structure in the event of a natural fire in a parking garage Ruben Dijkstra (Windesheim Zwolle, Netherlands) 16 Student presentation From hitting the brake to a laidback way towards deployment Thijs Geertsema (Saxion Enschede, Netherlands) 17 Presentation of the thesis award Paul Verlaan (Chairman of the jury and member of the Scientific Research Council of the Fire Brigade in the Netherlands) 18 Completion and closure by the chairman 19 FSS CONGRESS 2015: 4th and 5th November 20 Nibbles and Drinks (Foyer) www.ifv.nl