The Fire Safety Portal

How to navigate and use it to facilitate collaboration

8th September 2023

12.00 - 13:00

Webinar Overview

This webinar will introduce this flexible and easily accessible resource, highlight key areas to inform design processes with timber solutions, and how it aims to facilitate wider supply chain collaborations.

Understanding and applying fire safety principles underpin good design. The timber industry has launched a comprehensive new fire safety website: Fire Safety. Wood in Construction. Giving users a single point of access to information and guidance on this multi-faceted and safety-critical subject. It is designed for all construction professionals and is available, free, at https://timberfiresafety.org

Presenter

Julie Bregulla

Professor and Director of Innovation at TEDI-London

Chair of TC250/WG6 horizontal group robustness of structures, and member of CROSS (Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures)

Previously Executive Director of the BRE (Building Research Establishment) Fire and Building Technology Group, she has over 20 years’ experience working in academia, consulting and construction. She has been active in research, testing and certification of construction products and systems, including timber. She is a member of TC250 Design of Structures (the ‘Eurocodes’) and participates in national mirror committee work and co-chairs the ICE community advisory board on engineering fundamentals and behaviours (ICE).

Awards include the ICE Howard Medal and Best Innovate UK project.

Publications

Author of over 350 reports, papers and industry briefing covering various aspects of structural and fire engineering, co-author of ICE ‘In Plain Sight’ and current member of editorial board of Forensic Engineering.