CONFIRMED PROGRAMME
The event:
HERITAGE FIRE PROTECTION CONFERENCE
Date:
Wednesday, 16th November 2022
Venue:
DERBYSHIRE FIRE & RESCUE SERVICE TRAINING CENTRE, RIPLEY, DERBYSHIRE
Hosted by:
NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER NETWORK & DERBYSHIRE FRS
Supported by:
BAFSA, NFCC, IFE, London Fire Brigade, English Heritage, Historic England and the National Trust
PROGRAMME
0900: Registration
0930: Welcome from
Robert Taylor, Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Derbyshire FRS
Mark Huntington, Heritage Co-ordinator, London Fire Brigade
Terry McDermott, Secretary, National Fire Sprinkler Network
0950: Charles Harris, Historic England: Is England’s Cultural Heritage still at risk? Why do we have listed buildings? What is listed? Who has fires? Where are they occurring?
1010: Stewart Kidd, Special Projects Adviser, BAFSA: Reviewing the options which exist to install fire suppressions systems and suggest the optimum use of these to protect heritage buildings and their contents.
1050: Coffee
1115: Bob Bantock, National Trust: the Clandon House fire April 2015
1155: Stewart Kidd, BAFSA: retrofitting automatic fire suppression systems in historic and heritage buildings – setting out the basic constraints of working in listed and other protected buildings and explaining how the necessary equipment can be installed.
1230: Live burn, side-by-side sprinkler demonstration
1310: Lunch
1400: Steve Emery, Heritage Fire: fire engineering in Georgian Town Houses
1430: Michael Kilby, Associate Director – Fire Protection, Smithsonian Institution: protecting the Smithsonian – the role of fire sprinklers
1510: Q&A
1525: Closing remarks