Concrete Fire Forum

The Concrete Fire Forum is a community of people with an interest or need for information on concrete performance in fire. The group is currently made up of researchers, industry partners, academics, fire authorities, designers, insurers, and users. The community is international, with members from Europe, New Zealand and America.

The first of its kind to be established in the UK, the Forum aims to provide knowledge and understanding of existing research, current developments and to help provide input for the direction of new market-focused research.

The Forum meets twice a year, with the exchange of ideas being through presentations, discussions and workshops.

Wherever you are, however limited your time, you can contribute as a member of the Concrete Fire Forum. Joining provides an ideal opportunity to forge lasting links between design engineers, architects, other practitioners and researchers and offers a real benefit to checking authorities, the insurance industry, fire-fighters, and building owners as a mechanism to understand latest research, design applications and contributing to the steering of future research activity.

The aim is to enhance understanding of the behaviour of concrete structures when exposed to fire conditions.

The main activity of the group is technical meetings to discuss current issues and new developments. The discussions are broad and cover many topics relating to concrete and fire.

Including:

Eurocode design development
Special concretes
Lessons from WTC collapse for concrete construction
Spalling of concrete and measures to alleviate this
Design case studies
Fire case studies
Current and future research

The Concrete Fire Forum is an ideal platform for forging lasting links between design engineers, architects, other practitioners and researchers.

The discussion and debate of latest research in terms of testing, theoretical analysis and design methods. As well as being of benefit to checking authorities, the insurance industry, fire-fighters, and building owners as a mechanism to understand latest research, design applications and contributing to the steering of future research activity.