The conference programme

The conference examined principles and case histories to help designers and users benefit from lessons learnt in consequence of dealing with fire and flood.

Key topics

• Disaster planning and management
• What work is being carried out in the field
• The range of available technical solutions
• The challenges that have to be addressed

Speaker abstracts and biographies

Click on the links to see PDFs of the PowerPoint presentations

CONFERENCE REPORT in three parts
Conference summary
Part 1 Fire
Part 2 Flood

CONFERENCE PAPERS
COST ACTION C17: Fire Loss to Historic Buildings
Speaker: Ingval Maxwell OBE
Chair, COTAC

Fire Safety in Heritage Buildings: Providing guidance with the context of the built heritage
Speaker: Johanna Berntsson-Arje
Heritage Lead, London Fire Brigade

The Glasgow School of Art Fire: Lessons learnt
Speaker: David Mitchell/Chris McGregor
Historic Scotland

Building Regulations: Sympathetic Interventions in the Care of Heritage Buildings
Speaker: Toby McCorry
Chartered fire engineer, TOGA Fire

Selection of Fire Suppression Systems for Cultural Resources
Speaker: Stewart Kidd
Secretary-General, British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association

Flooding and the Historic Environment
Speaker: David Pickles
Senior Architect, English Heritage

Tirley Church case study in flood resilience measures
Speaker: Henry Russell OBE
Chair, Gloucester DAC; University of Reading

Flooding and the National Trust experience
Speaker: Katy Lithgow
Head Conservator, National Trust

Code of Practice for the Recovery of Flood Damaged Buildings
Speaker: Stephen Hodgson
CEO Property Care Association

Disaster Planning and its Implementation for BIM4C requirements
Speaker: Ingval Maxwell OBE
Chair COTAC