FIRE SAFETY IN HERITAGE BUILDINGS

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 Engl...

The 22nd CIPA Symposium, October 11-15, Kyoto, Japan Symposium Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Digital recording, documentation and information management of cultural heritage Archaeological and architectural heritage conservation applying ICT Terrestrial/aerial photogrammetry and applications to cultural heritage Terrestrial/aerial laser scanning and applications to cultural heritage Remote sensing and application for cultural heritage GIS for cultural heritage documentation and applications Intellectual property and open source relating to cultural heritage Standard/guideline for documentation of cultural heritage Strategies for long-term archiving of digital information of cultural heritage Prevention of cultural heritage against risk/hazard Education, training and communication 3-D Modeling, visualization, CG animation, VR, MR and web techniques Multi-image and multi-sensor systems Important Dates: Submission of extended abstracts:...

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH RISK : REDUCING RISK, IMPROVING OUTCOMES, 23-25 September 2009, New Forest, UK INTRODUCTION: Recently, there has been a disturbing increase in the number of natural disasters affecting millions of people, destroying property and resulting in loss of human life. These events include major flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and many others. Today the world faces unparalleled threats from humanmade disasters that can be attributed to failure of industrial and energy installations as well as terrorism. Added to this is the unparalleled threat of emerging and re-emerging diseases, with scientists predicting events such as an influenza pandemic. Human made and natural disasters in 2004 were estimated to have claimed tens of thousands of lives worldwide with economic losses in the order of US$100 billion. The year 2005 further tested the international relief community with ‘unparalleled frequency and scale of natural disast...

Eleventh International Conference on Structural Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture (STREMAH 2009), 22-24 July 2009, Tallinn, Estonia. INTRODUCTION: STREMAH 2009 is the 11th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture. The meeting, which has taken place on a regular basis over more than 20 years, has become an event attracting specialists from all over the world. It offers a channel for state-of-the-art technology and the most up-to-date scientific discoveries to be applied to the conservation of our architectural heritage. The importance of the architectural heritage for the historical identity of a region, town or nation is now widely recognised throughout the world. In order to take care of our heritage we need to look beyond borders and continents to benefit from the experience gained by others and to gain a better understanding of its cultural background. This series of conferences marks an important contribution as each meeti...

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SAFETY AND SECURITY ENGINEERING 2009 (SAFE 2009), 1-3 July 2009, Rome, Italy INTRODUCTION The success of the first two International Conferences on Safety and Security Engineering held in Rome in 2005, and Malta in 2007, has prompted the organisers to reconvene the meeting in 2009. The purpose of the Conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of the most recent developments in the theoretical and practical aspects of Safety and Security Engineering. Safety and Security Engineering, due to its special nature, is an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that bring together in a systematic view, many disciplines of engineering, from the traditional to the most technologically advanced. The conference covers areas such as crisis management; security engineering; natural disasters and emergencies; terrorism; IT security; man-made hazards; risk management; control; protection and mitigation issues. The meeting aims to ...

MALAYSIA'S OFFICIAL FIRE PROTECTION AND RESCUE EXPO & CONFERENCE 17 - 20 June 2008 Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre http://www.firec.org/