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Jose Torero of the University of Edinburgh, UK has joined the Fire and Life Safety Working Group (FLSWG) as Co-Chair serving with Dan O’Connor of Schirmer Engineering. The Co-Chairs believe the time is right to convene its members for a two day meeting to review recent years’ progress in tall building safety design and potential issues regarding the future of fire and life safety in tall buildings.
The FLSWG is planning a meeting for May 18-19, 2009 in Chicago with the goal of reviewing the draft working brief, establishing a work plan, assignments and a list of deliverables aimed at improving CTBUH guidance documents and promoting best practices for fire and life safety in tall buildings. Given their current evolution, developers, designers and local code enforcement agencies are in great need of a series of coherent and concerted guidelines specifically developed for tall buildings.
The Co-Chairs ask that current members and those seeking to join as new members have an alternate member (if possible) to participate, if the primary member cannot attend meetings or work on scheduled assignments. The current membership of the FLSWG consists of academics, regulatory enforcers and manufacturers of fire and life safety products. The FLSWG hopes to get participation and gain membership from the international stakeholder community to make this a successful world wide effort.
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