Attended the Case study in 13th International Performance-based Codes and Fire Safety Design Method Conference

4 members of the WG for case study attended the 13th International Performance-based Codes and Fire Safety Design Method Conference held 11^th -13^th of March in Auckland New Zealand, and made a presentation of our case study.

They could narrowly attend the Conference in the situation of spreading the contagion of Coronavirus. The specified building this year is the hotel with conference and gallery in suburban area, and at the center of this building there is a void space from the ground floor to the top.

Besides japan team, Canada, Finland, Hongkong, Poland, and New Zeeland had applied the case study.

The most important point of our proposal is realizing the openness of the void space that the designer of this building intends to, with small safety margin.

The detail of this case study will be shown in the seminar after the annual meeting of next year.

Brief report from the 2020th JAFPE Annual Meeting and Symposium

Our annual meeting and symposium were held in the Tokyo University of Science on January 31st, 2020.
In the meeting, all bills were approved and the award ceremony of those who qualified the JAFPE Fire Protection Engineer was also held.
In the symposium, researchers not only reported the results of the survey “Survey on Performance Based Design” conducted on 2019, but also gave a lecture on the theme “What We Expect on Performance Based Fire Safety Design” and participated the panel discussion as panelists.
35 participants were present at the symposium.

Annual Meeting at Tokyo University of Science

Award Ceremony of JAFPE Fire Protection Engineers

Researchers giving lectures at the Symposium

Participants and Panelists in the Panel Discussion

JAFPE 7th Meeting Scheduled

On Jan. 31st, our 7th regular meeting will be held at the Morito Memorial Hall in Tokyo University of Science from 1:30 P.M.
After our regular meeting, the symposium “What we expect on performance based design” will start from 3:00 P.M.
For further information, please check the “Event Guide” page.
Address of Morito Memorial Hall: 1-3, Kagurazaka Shinjyuku, Tokyo

Prof. Ai Sekizawa awarded

Prof. Ai Sekizawa was awarded SFPE’s 2019 “John J. Ahern President’s Award.” This award recognizes his longstanding contribution and leadership for SFPE and bears the name of the first SFPE president. This is also an honorable achievement for the SFPE Japan chapter, and here we inform the news to our members and congratulate Prof. Sekizawa.

Commemorative photo with Award shield