CONFERENCE ON HERITAGE UNDER FIRE 2010

Conference

'Heritage Under Fire: Protecting our Past for our Future'

Date: Thursday 21^st January 2010

Venue: Chester Grosvenor Hotel & Spa, Eastgate, Chester, CH1 1LT http://www.chestergrosvenor.co.uk

Co-organised by Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service and The Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)

More information on http://www.ife.org.uk

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME:

9.30	Registration & Coffee
10.00	Welcome	Chief Fire Officer, Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service	Paul Hancock
10.00	Opening Address	Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Fire, Communities & Local Government	Shahid Malik MP
10.15	Key Note Speech	Event Chair – Secretary, Local Authority World Heritage Forum (UK)	Gillian Clarke
10.30	Speaker 1	Historic Impact	Dr. Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage – Why the need to protect?
11.00	Speaker 2	Insurance	Bob Johnson, Technical Survey Manager – Ecclesiastical Insurance
11.30	Coffee & Tea break
11.45	Speaker 3	Fire Protection	Steve Emery, Fire Safety Adviser for English Heritage – Developing a Fire Management Plan
12.15	Speaker 4	Fire Protection – Case Study	Mark Kyffin, Austin Smith Lord (former President of the Chester Society of Architects) – Meeting the challenge an architect’s perspective (sympathetic solutions)
12.45	Lunch & refreshments
13.45	Speaker 5	Contingency/ Salvage Planning	Mike Coull, Heritage Coordinator for the Scottish Fire Services – Contingency/Salvage Planning
14.15	Speaker 6	Contingency/ Salvage Plannin	Grosvenor Museum Chester
15.00	Coffee &Tea break
15.15	Speaker 7	Economic Impact	Neil McCollum, Director of Tourism, Greenwich Council – Lessons from the loss of the Cutty Sark
15.45	Speaker 8	Operational/ER	Dany Cotton, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, London Fire Brigade – Cutty Sark Fire
16.15	Close