Day	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Sunday (06/19)		Workshops Student Event	Welcome Reception
Monday (06/20)	Technical Sessions	Technical Sessions	Dinner in Annapolis
Tuesday (06/21)	Technical Sessions	Technical Sessions Poster Session	Clarice Smith Reception
Wednesday (06/22)	Technical Sessions	Technical Sessions	Baseball Game (Washington Nationals)
Thursday (06/23)	Technical Sessions	IAFSS General Meeting Poster Session	Banquet
Friday (06/24)	Workshops Technical Sessions

Objectives and General Workshop Overview:

This workshop will focus on identifying opportunities and initiating pathways for innovation in water-based fire suppression through cross-cutting discussions connecting modern infrastructure requirements, advances in suppression system design, trends in engineering practices, and the most recent research activities. Throughout history, water has been recognized as an extraordinary fire suppressant. Water based fire suppression is therefore both effective and ancient. Although the performance of current water based fire suppression systems is respectable, one wonders if relevant technological and research advancements are being fully exploited for performance improvements and/or cost reductions. A diverse panel of experts from various sectors of the field will lead discussions giving participants an opportunity to pause, rethink, and discover opportunities for innovation in water based fire suppression.

Objectives and General Workshop Overview:

The purpose of this workshop will be to present the current state-of-the-art in practice and research from around the world on occupant elevator usage for evacuation during building fire emergencies.

Scope and Format of Workshop:

First, presentations will be made on the current state of elevator usage for evacuation in different countries, including regulations on elevators as well as how buildings incorporate elevators in their evacuation procedures. Second, research will be presented on the behavioral aspects of elevator usage and the issues and challenges associated with their use. Potential topics include occupant selection behavior of elevators versus stairs, confidence or comfort with elevator usage, priority for people who cannot negotiate the stairs, maximum thresholds for queuing and/or waiting times, and/or transportation efficiency regarding elevator use in fire evacuation. Finally, the workshop will end with a discussion on future research needs to improve our understanding of how elevators will be used during fire emergencies so that the fire safety community can ensure safe, efficient and economical egress systems in tall buildings around the world.

Objective:

The objective of the workshop is to bring the different groups that are working on pyrolysis models together to summarize the main features of their model, explain their approach to obtain the input data (parameter estimation) and share the challenges that they are facing in obtaining the material properties.

Scope and Format of Workshop:

A number of pyrolysis models have recently been developed and are used in conjunction with CFD codes to predict fire growth in an enclosure. These pyrolysis models all essentially solve the same set of equations but they differ slightly in the underlying assumptions and the extent to which specific physical and chemical phenomena are included. A significant and perhaps main challenge with these models is obtaining the material properties that are needed as input data. The workshop will start with presentations by five groups that are very active in the area of parameter estimation for pyrolysis models and will be followed by approximately one hour of open discussion.

Objectives and General Workshop Overview:

This workshop will look at how science and computing power feed into the process of modern building design and approval. We will look at computer models from the viewpoints of each of the major stakeholders; research scientists, model developers, end-users and regulators. The session will facilitate discussions between experimentalists (advancing the basic science & data), developers, users, and regulators to increase the information flow between the disciplines and attempt to focus minds on common areas of concern and benefit. We shall discuss mutual roles and the expectations of the contributions of other stakeholders along with how well or how poorly those expectations are being met. Issues such as a lack of data, clarity of model assumptions and the regulatory approval process will be touched upon.

Scope and Format of Workshop:

Two blocks containing a total of 5 talks (depending on overall workshop length).
Following each block will be a brief Q&A period. After each block there will be a general discussion.

Research & Development – current activities

1. (10 mins) Brief overview of experimentation & data gathering (academic)
2. (10 mins) A talk from someone actively involved in fire model development.
3. (10 mins) A talk from someone actively involved in escape model development

Discussion:

1. Which areas require further research & modeling and research to support the design team?
2. Which areas require further activity to support the AHJs?
3. Where are the funding opportunities?
   Application and education – current processes
4. (15 mins) A talk from a model user who uses both fire and evacuation models
5. (15 mins) A talk from someone involved on the AHJ side.

Discussion:

1. Where can there be greater communication between the R&D activities, and end-users?
2. How can the educational establishments raise awareness of the issues?
3. Which areas in design submissions would AHJ’s like to see greater clarity or depth?

Objectives:

The objective of the workshop is to bring together fire safety educators from various Institutions around the globe to discuss strategies and approaches in delivering fire safety education to ensure that graduates can meet the challenges of today’s fire safety environment.

Scope and Format of Workshop:

With the increasing use of performance based designs in different countries and the construction of bigger and more complex buildings there is a need to educate highly qualified personnel that will have the knowledge and capabilities and design their fire safety systems. The effective design of these systems may involve the use of sophisticated computer models such as CFD and Fire Risk Analysis Models as well as the design of complex fire suppression and detection systems.

This workshop will try to identify the main challenges and to determine how different institutions design and deliver their fire safety programs to cope with them. This will be done by short presentations from fire safety educators from institutions around the world. Following the presentations a discussion session will be held that will aim at identifying best practices, areas of collaboration and sharing of information and possibly course material. The overall goal is to enhance the level of fire safety education globally.

Objectives and General Workshop Overview:

1. How can the fire safety of structures provide a more sustainable building solution (particularly in the context of performance-based structural design for fire)?
2. What are the sustainable benefits or value-added that fire safety design of structures provides, other than cost savings for specific structural forms?
3. Is the design for fire safety of structures whereby large deflections or limited collapse occur a sustainable (or acceptable) outcome?
4. Related to the above, how do regulatory objectives impact on the fire safety of structures? – i.e. many of the world’s building codes allow building collapse in fire as an acceptable outcome for a design, provided life safety, fire fighting access and protection of neighboring property is achieved – is this an appropriate and sustainable outcome for modern buildings ?

Scope and Format of Workshop:

Our aim is to have 2 sessions - one before coffee break, one after coffee break.
Each session will have some say 2 short (15 min.) introductory presentations (hopefully to be thought provoking and perhaps a little bit controversial) on the topic and then have “breakout” groups to discuss various topics and present back to the whole room. We can then take some key messages out of the discussions.
The workshop is to be documented with the discussions and key findings to be published in a “white paper”, on the IAFSS website (or elsewhere). All attendees at the workshop are to be listed (with their permission) in the published paper.

Objective:

To provide an introduction to the features under development, open discussion with the audience, and solicit feedback on the usability of a federated fire information search tool.

General Workshop Overview:

A search tool is being developed to allow the ability to search multiple online international fire research repositories simultaneously. In parallel, a website is being developed to support community interactions with features such as an interactive calendar, discussion forums, etc.

A brief overview of the up-to-date development and direction of the tools will be presented. There will be opportunity for audience interaction with the tools at the current state of development. The focus of the workshop is to promote discussion and feedback of useful features and functionality of the tools. The results will then be used in the further development of the tools before their intended public launch. In addition to feedback, we are looking for people to take an active role in the online community.

Format of Workshop:

1. Short presentation
2. Demonstration of the tool (depending on availability, access will be either as a group or individually). If the tools are available for individual access, then it would be useful for workshop attendees to have laptops with internet access with them – interested attendees will be informed of this prior to the workshop.
3. Open floor up to discussion and feedback of audience based on key discussion points. This is the focus of the workshop. Discussion will focus on usability, not technology details.