Tunnel Safety & Security - istss

Tunnel Safety & Security
5 th International Symposium
14-16 March 2012 New York, USA
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ISTSS began in Sweden in 2003 as the International Symposium on Catastrophic
Tunnel Fires. Interest for the first Symposium clearly identified the
need for a conference dealing with safety and security issues related to
tunnels. In response to overwhelming interest, the scope of the Symposium
was broadened and the event was renamed the International Symposium of
Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS). The 1st ISTSS was held in Washington, DC,
in 2004 and has continued biennially since then attracting more than 250 delegates
each meeting. At SP, we are proud to have established this prestigious
event in collaboration with our event partners.
5 th ISTSS in New York, USA
Tunnels are an increasingly important part of the infrastructure
network. They create challenges for incident prevention
and management, fire protection and security against attacks
or sabotage. This Symposium offers an excellent opportunity
for experts working with transport, infrastructure security systems,
manufacturers and technical organisations to exchange
their experience in an international forum.
The symposium will be held at:
The Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th. at Madison Avenue,
NEW YORK, NY 10017, USA
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden develops and disseminates technology to assist the development
and competitiveness of industry, to improve safety in society, to support sustainable development
and to help protect the environment.
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Keynote speakers
Tunnel safety and security is a challenge for both private and public sectors. ISTSS provides a forum over 3 days to discuss current practice and
emerging trends and research in the field of tunnel safety and security. We have created a program with leading experts from a variety of fields
within the following themes: risk & security, human behaviour, passive fire protection & construction, active fire protection & fire fighting,
ventilation and fire dynamics. Each day is opened by two invited Keynote Speakers, leaders in their field, providing an overview of their topic of
expertise as an introduction to the themes of the day. We are proud to present our Keynote Speakers below.
Marieke
Martens,TNO
Marieke Martens is
a traffic psychologist,
who has been
working in the area
of Human Factors
and tunnel design for
15 years. She is senior
research scientist at
TNO in the Netherlands,
with a research
position since 1996.
Since 2009 she is also an Associate Professor
at the Centre for Transport Studies at the
University of Twente. Her main research
field is to design tunnels for human use.
This includes designing tunnels for optimal
driving behaviour in normal conditions, but
also to design for emergency evacuation
and incidents. Optimal design in the tunnel
operator centre and training the operators
and emergency rescue teams is also of great
importance. Marieke has worked in national
and international projects dealing with tunnel
design, driving behaviour and accidents
and incidents. She was involved in the European
SAFESTAR project, dealing with tunnel
design and exits and entries in tunnels, and
she was work package leader of the Human
Factors work package of the European UP-
TUN project, dealing with tunnel users, tunnel
operators and rescue teams. She is also a
member of the PIARC WG3, concerned with
human behaviour and calamities in tunnels,
that is about to finish its third term.
Martin Brown,
Transport for
London
Martin had a
lengthy career
with HSE (the UK
Safety Regulator)
including practical
experience of the
safety and security
issues of the London
Underground
and the Channel Tunnel, and a wide range
of manufacturing industry (including defence
and electronics) and the construction
sector. He moved to Tube Lines as Director
Health, Safety and Environment, which included
involvement in the service restoration
and clear up following the 7/7 Kings Cross
bombings. He is currently Director HSE for
London Rail, part of Transport for London,
where his responsibilities include staff and
system security issues, including preparations
for the London 2012 Olympics.
Peter Johnson,
Arup
Peter Johnson is
a Principal and
Fellow of the
global consulting
firm of Arup. He
is also a Fellow of
Engineers Australia
and the Society
of Fire protection
Engineers
and Life Member and Board Advisor of the
Fire Protection Association, Australia. He is a
member of the Standards Australia committee
on tunnels. Peter has worked in the fire safety
field for over 35 years, and has been involved
in a wide range of building and infrastructure
projects internationally. This has included
design involvement in a significant number
of road and rail tunnel projects, including
the Fehmarnbelt tunnel proposed between
Denmark and Germany, Airport Link tunnel
in Brisbane, and Cross City tunnel in Sydney.
Peter has a special interest in fire scenario
development as the driver of fire engineering
design and risk analysis.
William H “Bill”
Arrington, U.S.
Department of
Homeland Security
Bill was sworn in as
a Maryland State
Trooper in September,
1974 and
enjoyed a long and
remarkable career
before retiring at
the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel. In
October, 2002, Bill answered the call to serve
when the Transportation Security Administration
was created under the United States
Department of Transportation shortly after
the 9/11 attack. With a primary focus on
aviation security, Bill served as one of the first
Area Directors in Aviation Operations with
the responsibility for overseeing security at all
commercial airports in the eastern half of the
United States. At the present time Bill is the
General Manager for the Office of Highway
and Motor Carrier Security under TSA’s Transportation
Sector Network Management Directory.
He has primary responsibility for commercial
motor vehicle security which includes;
trucks and motor coaches, school bus security
and critical infrastructure (bridges and tunnels)
security for our nation’s transportation
systems which consist of more than four
million miles of highway. Bill’s experience and
expertise are reflective of his ability to lead
and direct in the Nation’s critical transportation
security arena.
Rick Carvel, University
of Edinburgh
Dr Ricky Carvel is a
Research Fellow and
assistant director of
the BRE Centre for
Fire Safety Engineering
at the University
of Edinburgh,
Scotland. Originally
from Edinburgh
he studied at St
Andrews University, obtaining a BSc (hons) in
Chemistry and Physics in 1992 and an MPhil in
Chemistry in 1994. Since then he has worked
for the University of Aberystwyth, Heriot-
Watt University, International Fire Investigators
and Consultants and the University of
Edinburgh. He is editor of ‘The Handbook
of Tunnel Fire Safety’ and has been working
in the field of tunnel fire phenomena since
1998. He is also an associate editor of the Fire
Safety Journal. His tunnel work has highlighted
the influence that tunnel ventilation
systems and tunnel geometry can have on the
burning behaviour of various different types
of fires in tunnels. In 2004 he was awarded a
PhD from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh,
Scotland) for his thesis “Fire Size in Tunnels”.
He currently provides fire safety engineering
consultancy services to a number of different
companies, including Jacobs UK Ltd and some
UK tunnel operators, primarily with regards
to tunnel fire safety.
William G. Connell,
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Inc
Bill Connell is
Technical Director of
Mechanical Engineering
and an Assistant
Vice President
for Parsons Brinckerhoff,
Inc. USA. Bill
has over 32 years of
experience working
on major transportation infrastructure
projects and is a recognized technical expert
in fire and life-safety design requirements for
road and rail tunnel facilities. He has been a
member of the Technical Committee for NFPA
502 – Standard for Road Tunnel, Bridges and
Limited Access Highways for more than sixteen
years and has served as the committee’s
Chairman since 2005.
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Day 1 Wednesday 14 March 2012
08.00 Registration, Coffee and Pastries
09.00 Opening Ceremony
Keynote Session (Chair: Haukur Ingason, SP, Sweden)
09.30 Managing security issues on the public transport systems
of London
Martin Brown, Transport of London, UK
10.00 Mitigation in Tunnel Fires
Ricky Carvel, Edinburgh University, UK
10.30 Coffee break
Active fire protection; Supression systems
(Chair: Jack Mawhinney, Hughes Associates Inc, USA)
11.00 Advantages of Electronically Controlled Sprinklers (ECS)
for fire protection of tunnels
Leonid Tanklevskiy, Gefest Enterprise Group, Russia,
Sergey Kopylov, Mikhail Vasilev , Varvara Zima, Russian
Research Institute for Fire Protection and Alexander Snegirev
, St.-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia
11.20 Benefit of Sprinkler Systems in Protection of Tunnel
Structure from Fire
Bobby, J. Melvin and Kenneth J. Harris, Parsons
Brinckerhoff, USA
11:40 Water Mist Concept - Effective Choice for Improving
Safety in Road Tunnels
Pasi Vuolle, Marioff Corporation, Finland
12.00 Automatic sprinkler system in tunnel fires
Ying Z. Li, and Haukur Ingason, SP, Sweden
12.20 A study of the interactions between a water suppression
system and a longitudinal ventilation system in a
tunnel
Yoon Ko and George Hadjisophocleous, Carleton University,
Canada
12.40 Lunch and Exhibits
Active fire protection; Detection & Supression
(Chair: Haukur Ingason, SP, Sweden)
14.00 Automated fire detection and mitigation in rail tunnels
designed for freight trains
Frank de Vires, Covalent Infra Technology Solutions BV,
the Netherlands
14.20 Gas analytics for the early detection of fires in road
tunnels
Maximilian Wietek, Christian Berweger, Christian
Lämmle, VSH, Switzerland
15.00 CFD-based Assessment of Fixed Fire-Fighting Systems in
Tunnels
Xavier Ponticq,CETU, France
15.20 Fire in Road Tunnel in Slovenia January 2010
Milan Dubravac, National Fire School, Slovenia
15.40 Coffee break
Explosions
(Chair: Stefan Zmigrodzki, CIMA+ Consulting Engineers,
Canada)
Protective Design Guideline of Tunnels
Sung Choi, Parsons Brinckerhoff/Manhattan College, USA
Design loads and methods for prestressed open cut tunnels
under severe accidental and malicious threats Part I
Explosions
Markus Nöldgen, Cologne University of Applied Science,
Germany, Frank Lukaschek, Andreas Bach and Ingo Müllers,
Schüßler-Plan Inegenieurgesellschaft mbH, Germany
Rescue Operations in Underground Mass Transport Systems
at Fires and Deliberate Attacks
Mia Kumm and Anders Palm, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Studies of Explosions Occurring in a Metro Carriage in a
Tunnel
Gero Meyer and Bo Janzon, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Security
(Chair: Sung Choi, Parsons Brinckerhoff/Manhattan
College, USA)
Safety and security of underground infrastructure – new
concepts for evaluating and mitigating risks of tunnels
Goetz Vollmann and Markus Thewes, Ruhr-University of
Bochum, Germany, Frank Heimbecher, Federal Highway
Research Institute, Germany
Influence of different tunnel ventilation systems on the
dispersion of light and heavy gases due to car accidents
Marion Meinert, Muenster University of Applied Science,
Germany, Wolfram Klingsch, University of Wuppertal,
Germany
Dispersion of a tracer gas in subway tunnels and stations
during operation und non operation hours
Andreas Pflitsch, Markus Brüne and Michael Killing-Heinze,
Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
Identification of critical Tunnels in a Road Network
Ingo Kuandinya and Frank Heimbecher, Federal Highway
Research Institute, Germany
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Continuation of day 1
Design & Functional Safety
(Chair: Peter Johnson, ARUP FIRE, Australia)
16.00 An integrated functional design approach for safety
related tunnel processes
Thijs Ruland, Twan Daverveld, Bas van Duijnhoven,
Jenny van Gelder and Jan-Martijn Teeuw Royal
Haskoning, The Netherlands
16.20 The Stockholm Bypass – Enhanced design and interaction
between Safety systems
Bo Wahlström and Henric Modig, Faveo Projektledning
AB, Sweden, Leif Eklöf and Ulf Lundström, Swedish
Transport Administration Stockholm, Sweden
Safety and Regulatory Framework
(Chair: William Connell, Parsons Brinckerhoff, USA)
Some of the NFPA 130 Improvements proposed for the
2014 Edition
Harold L. Levitt, The Port Authority of New York & New
Jersey (PANYNJ), USA, William D. Kennedy, Parsons
Brinckerhoff, USA
Safety of Dutch tunnels guaranteed by standard approach
Hans A. Ruijter and Fred Bouwmeester, Rijkswaterstaat, The
Netherlands
16.40 Decision support for tunnel safety
Diderick Oerlemans, Covalent Infra Technology Solutions,
Holland
17.00 Problems with Tunnel Safety Systems
Gary English, City of Seattle Fire Department, USA
17.20 Cocktail Reception and Poster Session
Current practice of Fire design for Road & Rail Tunnels in
Austria
Johannes Wagender, GEOCONSULT Wien ZT GmbH, Austria
A North-American Approach to the Refurbishing of Existing
Tunnels Based on European Specific Hazard Investigations
Hubert Dubois, CIMA+ Consulting Engineers, Canada
19.00 Close Day 1
Day 2 Thursday 15 March 2012
08.00 Registration
Keynote Session
(Chair: Anders Lönnermark, SP, Sweden)
08.30 Regulating Road Tunnel Fire Safety
William Conell, Parson Brinkerhoff, USA
09:00 Risk Reduction for Today’s Critical Infrastructure
William H. Arrington, U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
Transportation Security Administration
09.30 Break
Ventilation
(Chair: Mia Kumm, Mälardalen University, Sweden)
09:40 Some Effects on Natural Ventilation System for Subway
Tunnel Fires
Ahmed Kashef, Institute for Research in Construction, National
Research Council, Canada, Zhongyuan Yuan, Bo Lei,
School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong
University, China
10.00 External conditions have a significant impact on the air
flow in tunnels using transverse ventilation for smoke
extraction
Jonas Andersson, City of Stockholm Traffic Administration,
Sweden and Anders Lönnermark, SP, Sweden
10.20 Coffee break
Risk & Cost benefit analysis
(Chair: Yajue Wu, Sheffield University, UK)
A Risk-Based Assessment of Tunnel Emergency Ventilation
System Design
John S. Devlin, Scott T. Laramee, jennifer M. Zaworski, Aon
Fire Protection Engineering, USA
On Risk Analysis using Bayesian Networks on Road Tunnels
Rune Brandt, HBI Haerter, Switzerland, Niels Peter Høj
HOJ Consulting, Brunnen, Switzerland
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Continuation of day 2
Ventilation
(Chair: Richard Carvel, University of Edinburgh, UK)
10.40 Dynamics of natural air flow inside subway tunnels
Markus Bruene, Andreas Pflitsch & Jonathan Spiegel, Ruhr-
University of Bochum, Germany
11.00 Multiscale Modelling of Fire Emergencies in a Transverse
Francesco Colella, Adriano Sciacovelli, Vittorio Verda, Politecnico
di Torino, Italy, Guillermo Rein, Ricky Carvel
and Romano Borchiellini, University of Edinburgh, BRE Centre
for Fire Safety Engineering, UK
11.20 Design Fires in Road Tunnels & the Impact on Ventilation
Systems
Norman Rhodes and Kirit Kottam Hatch Mott MacDonald,
USA
11.40 Theoretical Analysis on Longitudinal Tunnel Ventilation in Fire
Emergency
Qihui Zhang, A. Canfora, E. Trussoni, G. Astore , S. Xu and P.
Grasso GEODATA Engineering SpA, Italy
12.00 Lunch and Exhibits
Ventilation
(Chair: Rune Brandt, HBI Haerter, Switzerland)
13.30 The influence of blockages on backlayering in tunnel fires - a
numerical study
Ricky Carvel, David Bishop and Stephen Welch, University of
Edinburgh, UK
13.50 Design, simulations and implementation of ventilation system
for Metro Line 9, at Barcelona city in Spain
Ana M. Ruiz-Jimenez and A.Matas, TD&T S.L., Spain
14.10 The Dynamics of Tunnel Ventilation and Fire Development
Yajue Wu, Sheffield University, UK
14.30 The Importance of Exit Spacing to the Choice of Tunnel Ventilation
System
Paul Williams, Norman Disney & Young, New Zealand
14.50 Coffee break
Fire Dynamnics
(Chair: Arnold Dix, University of Western Sydney,
Australia)
15.20 Potential methodologies for calculating the overall heat release
rate of a vehicle in a tunnel or an underground structure
Rickard Hansen, Mälardalen University, Sweden
15.50 Large Scale Fire Tests for the “Calle 30 Project”
Sonia Fernández, FFII - CEMIM, Spain, Del Rey, ETSII-Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, A. Grande, I. Espinosa,
FFII - CEMIM. Madrid. Spain, E. Alarcón, ETSII-Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid,. Spain
16.10 The experimental study on heat release rate in a full-scale
train model
Mao Shaohua, Shi Zhu, Yuanzhou Li, Haobo Wang , Ran Huo
University of Science and Technology of China, China
16.30 Large-scale Commuter Train Fire Tests – Results from the
METRO Project
Anders Lönnermark, Johan Lindström, Ying Zhen Li, Haukur
Ingason, SP, Sweden, Mia Kumm, Mälardalen University
16.50 Full-scale Experiments for Heat Release Rate Measurements
of Railcar Fires
George Hadjisophocleous, Carleton University, Canada
19.00 Banquet
22.00 Close Day 2
Risk & Cost benefit analysis
(Chair: Marco Cigolini, RFI, Rome, Italy)
Assessment model for the transport of dangerous goods,
through road tunnels – outset
Mirjam Nelisse, TNO, The Netherlands
Fire Ventilation Upgrades Can a retrofit be detrimental to Fire
Life Safety
Sam Hoffman, Daniel McKinney, Bruce Dandie AECOM Technical
Services, Inc., USA
Risk Framework – Methodology for Tunnels
Jimmy Jönsson, ARUP Fire, Spain, Peter Johnson, Arup Fire,
Australia
Fixed fire fighting systems for tunnels – SOLIT Research Project
Max Lakkonen, FOGTEC Fire Protection, Germany
Risk & Cost benefit analysis
(Chair: Goetz Vollmann, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany)
Effectiveness analysis of a fire detection system configured as a
multi-function portal aimed at protecting railway tunnels
Marco Cigolini, RFI spa, Italy
Risk-based evaluation of longitudinal ventilation with enhanced
safety concept
Göran Nygren, Per-Olof Jönsson and Johan Lundin, WSP, Sweden
Assessing Fire Development Risk in Rail Vehicles and the Impacts
on Tunnel Infrastructure
Jarrod Alston and Kurt Schebel, ARUP, USA
Optimization of Measures Directed on the People Safety at Tunnel
Fire by Means of Computational Methods
Alexey Karpov, I.R. Khasanov, N.P. Kopylov, D.V Ushakov,. All-
Russian Research Institute for Fire Protection, Russia
Decission support & Operation
(Chair: Jens Stiegel, Frankfurt Fire Brigade, Germany)
Decision Support System for Emergencies in Road Tunnels
Jorge A. Capote, Daniel Alvear, Orlando Abreu, Arturo Cuesta,
Virginia Alonso, University of Cantabria, Spain
Brisbane’s Busway network – Twelve years of designing and
operating safe tunnels
Nick Agnew, Stacey Agnew Pty Ltd, Australia, Peter Gehrke,
Parsons Brinckerhoff, Australia, Raymond Donato, Donato Consultancy,
Australia
The use of traffic flow predictions to enhance tunnel safety
Tomas Julner, Trafikverket, Sweden
Safety in Swedish railway tunnels
Per Vedin and Peter Lundman, Swedish transport administration,
Sweden
On the Power of Simulation and the Need for Experimental
Validation
Marco Bettelini and Maximilian Wietek Amberg Engineering
Ltd., Switzerland
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Day 3 Friday 16 March 2012
08.00 Registration
Keynote Session
(Chair: Björn Sundström, SP, Sweden)
08.30 Fire Safety Engineering as a Tool in Tunnel Design
Peter Johnson, Arup, Australia
09.00 Human behavior in Tunnels
Marieke Martens, TNO, The Netherlands
09.30 Break
Design fires
(Chair: Martin Brown, London Transport, UK)
10.00 New concept for design fires in tunnels
Haukur Ingason, Ying Zhen Li, SP, Sweden
10.20 Tunnel fires and fire protection of tunnels with
sprays of water droplets
Carsten Palle, VID Fire-Kill, Denmark
10.40 Coffee break
Human behaviour & Evacuation
(Chair: Håkan Frantzich, LTH, Sweden)
11.10 Taking advantage of theories and models on human
behaviour in the fire safety design of underground
transportation systems
Karl Fridolf, Daniel Nilsson and Håkan Frantzich,
Lund University, Sweden
11.30 Development of a linear intoxication based evacuation
module for an extended study of consequences
of fire incidents in road tunnels
Christoph Forster, M. Sc. Bernhard Koh, IFL Consulting
Engineers, Austria
11.50 FP7 – iNTeg-Risk - ERRA A5 Evacuation of a complex
underground facility
Maximilian Wietek, VSH, Switzerland Jonatan Hugosson,
SP, Sweden, Frank Leismann, STUVA, Germany,
Fabien Fouillen, INERIS, France
12.10 Start Design and optimisation of VA systems in
tunnels
Evert Start, Duran Audio, The Netherlands
Passsive Fire protection
(Chair: Daniel Joyeux, Efectis France, France)
Quantification of fire damage of concrete for tunnel
applications
Joakim Albrektsson, and Mathias Flansbjer, SP, Sweden, Jan
Erik Lindqvist, CBI Swedish Cement and Concrete Research
Institute, Robert jansson, SP, Sweden
Submerged Floating Tunnels, a new tunnel concept, creating
new challenges in tunnel safety and security
Lidvard Skorpa, Norwegian Public Roads Administration,
Norway
Mobile Furnace for Determining Spalling Sensitivity of Existing
Concrete Tunnel Linings
Martin Vermeer and A. Breunese, Efectis Nederland BV, The
Netherlands
Temperature Loads and Passive Protection in Structural
Tunnels
Stefan Zmigrodzki, CIMA+ Consulting Engineers, Canada
12.30 Lunch and Exhibits
Human Behaviour & Evacuation
(Chair: Marieke Martens, TNO, The Netherlands)
13.30 Emergency Escape and Evacuation Simulation in Rail
Tunnels
Marco Bettelini and Samuel Rigert, Amberg Engineering
Ltd., Switzerland
13.50 Experiment for behavior estimation in the egress
using electronic devices in the SAVE ME Project
Stefano Marsella, Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del
Fuoco, Italy, Francesco Tesauri, Università di Modena
e Reggio Emilia, Italy , Jan Paul Leuteritz, Fraunhofer
Institute, Germany, Uberto Del Prato, IES Solutions,
Italy
14.10 French initiative to implement PIARC’s recommendations
regarding HGV driver training in road tunnels,
Marc Tesson and Bertrand Perrin, CETU, France,
14.30 Technical Visit
More Details in January 2012
Passive Fire Protection
(Chair: Nick Agnew, Stacey Agnew Pty Ltd, Australia)
FEM structural analyses for the evaluation of fire safety in
tunnels
Francesco Petrini, Filippo Gentili, Franco Bontempi, Sapienza
Università di Roma, Italy
The methods for determining fire spalling of concrete
Lars Boström, Robert Jansson, SP, Sweden
Assessing the fire resistance in existing tunnels
Leander Noordijk, A.J. Breunese and C. Both, Efectis Nederland
BV, The Netherlands
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Registration
3-day registration*
Before February 1st 2012 ............................................................................... USD 825
From February 1st 2012 ............................................................................... USD 975
Student/Speakers (before February 1st) ........................................................................... USD 700
1-day registration*
Before February 1st 2012 (14th or 15th March) .............................................................. USD 500
Before February 1st 2012 (16th March) ........................................................................... USD 400
From February 1st 2012 (14th or 15th March) ................................................................. USD 550
From February 1st 2012 (16th March) .............................................................................. USD 450
Student/Speakers (before February 1st) (14th or 15th March.......................................... USD 375
Student/Speakers (before February 1st) (16 th March)..................................................... USD 375
* The fee includes: technical sessions, exhibit, poster session, refreshments,
lunches, cocktail reception, symposium documentation.
Banquet Dinner (Thursday) ................................................................................. USD 85
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Symposium language
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Scientific Committée
Haukur Ingason, chair, SP, Sweden
Professor Haukur Ingason has over twenty years of international experience
in fire safety research and engineering. He has been involved in
large scale and model scale studies of fire and smoke spread in tunnels
since 1992. He was the initiator and project leader of the Runehamar tests
2003. Haukur gives PhD courses and supervises in fire safety in underground
facilities at Mälardalens University.
Anders Lönnermark, SP, Sweden
Dr Anders Lönnermark is a Senior Research Scientist at the Department
of Fire Technology at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, where
he has been employed since 1995. Lönnermark has a long experience
of performing fire tests, both in model-scale and in full scale. In 2003
Lönnermark was responsible for the performance of the large-scale tests
in the Runehamar tunnel. In 2005 he obtained his PhD degree from Lund
University. The title of his thesis was “On the Characteristics of Fires in
Tunnels”.
Margaret McNamee, SP, Sweden
Dr Margaret Simonson has worked in the field of fire and combustion
research for more than 20 years. She obtained her PhD in Combustion
chemistry from the Chalmers University of Technology 1995 before beginning
work in Fire Technology. Her main field of interest has been the environmental
effect of fires, in particular the development of models for the
environmental assessment of products incorporating fire performance as
an important parameter. She has more than 40 international publications,
co-authored 20 SP Reports and four book chapters.
Jack Mawhinney, Hughes Associates, Inc., USA
Jack Mawhinney joined Hughes Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland
as a fire protection research engineer in 1996. From 1984 to 1995 he
worked as a Research Officer at the Canadian Institute for Research in
Construction in Ottawa, Canada. He is past chair of the National Fire
Protection Association (NFPA) 750, Standard on Water Mist Fire Protection
Systems, and author of chapters on water mist systems in the NFPA and
SFPE handbooks. Mr. Mawhinney has extensive experience in full-scale
fire testing, including evaluations of the performance of water mist
systems in tunnels involving large fires in automobiles and heavy goods
vehicles (HGVs). He has provided scientific review and analysis of fire tests
conducted at tunnel research facilities in Switzerland, Spain, Norway and
England. He has applied CFD modeling to study the impact of active fire
protection systems on very large HGV fires in tunnels.
Ricky Carvel, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Ricky Carvel is assistant director of the BRE Centre for Fire Safety
Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is also editor of
‘The Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety’ (Thomas Telford, London, 2005).
He has been researching tunnel fire phenomena since 1998 and has been
a regular speaker at tunnel safety conferences since 1999. His work has
highlighted the influence that tunnel ventilation systems and tunnel
geometry can have on the burning behaviour of various different types of
fires in tunnels. In 2004 he was awarded a PhD from Heriot-Watt University
(Edinburgh, Scotland) for his thesis “Fire Size in Tunnels”. He currently
provides fire safety engineering consultancy services to a number of different
companies, including Jacobs UK Ltd and some UK tunnel operators,
primarily with regards to fire safety in tunnels. Further details on www.
rickycarvel.info
Arnold Dix, Arnold Dix Associates, Australia
Professor Dix is recognized as the world’s pre-eminent independent
technical/legal tunnel risk expert adviser. He combines dual qualifications
in Law and Science, Professorships in Engineering and Medicine with
appointments to PIARC, NFPA, ITA and ITIG. He commands a leadership
role on approaches to tunnel operational safety, contractual, political and
insurance issues for complex tunnel issues. When independent advice is
required and the choices are unclear - Dix has the reputation for providing
authorative, strong, independent and robust advice.
Rickard Forsén, FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
Rickard Forsén has a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, from Lund Institute of
Technology (1976). He began working at Swedish National Defence
Research Establishment (FOA) in 1983 studying weapons effects such as
blast and fragments loading and damage to buildings and occupants
after attacks with conventional weapons. He has continued to also cover
studies of protective structures in his roll as Head of Buildings and Fortifications
department at FOA (Protection and Materials department after
reorganisation 1998) between 1994 and 1999. Since 2003 he is Engineering
Director at FOI (former FOA) with specialties blast and fragment
loadings from conventional weapons and improvised explosive devices
in acts of sabotage or terrorism, building damage assessment, protective
structures and measures to protect buildings and occupants after attacks,
risk analysis for explosive storage and dangerous goods transport and
storage. He is an author of more than 100 scientific and user reports,
customer reports, memos and articles.
Jens Stiegel, Frankfurt Fire Brigade, Germany
Jens Stiegel, born in 1973 is an assistant chief with the Fire Department
of the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He's actually responsible
for the department of education and training, which consists of the
fire academy, the bureau of training, the EMS academy and the Fire
Department’s driving school. He graduated as a civil engineer with focus
on construction and fire protection in 2000 from University of Darmstadt
and worked for two years as an engineer for fire prevention. In 2002 he
joined the State Fire Academy of Northrhine Westfalia and started his
training period to become a chief fire officer. He graduated in 2004 and
became chief of education and training at the Fire Department of the
City of Frankfurt am Main.
Håkan Frantzich, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Håkan Frantzich is a Senior lecturer at the department of Fire Safety
Engineering and Systems Safety at Lund University. His main area of
expertise is related to people safety during evacuation in fires. He has
a great experience in performing evacuation experiments for research
purposes and linking fire human behaviour and movement of people to
evacuation modelling. Frantzich has also been involved in the development
of design procedures for linking risk assessment and fire safety
design. He has contributed to the spread of fire related knowledge as
an author of different publications e.g. design guides, building codes, a
chapter on risk assessment in the next SFPE handbook and several journal
and conference papers.
Dr Rune Brandt, HB Haerter, Norway
Dr Rune Brandt heads the renowned and internationally reputed consultancy
HBI Haerter. Since 1963, the tunnel ventilation and the safety
concept of than 600 tunnels world wide have been designed by HBI Haerter
that has offices in Switzerland and Germany. Moreover, pollutions
dispersion modelling and risk assessment is part of the core services. Dr
Rune Brandt is active in PIARC’s tunnel working group “air quality, fires
and ventilation”. Moreover, he serves on several scientific committees.
HBI Haerter follows projects from first ideas over preliminary and detailed
design to tendering, site supervision and operation. Dr Rune Brandt
holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University (UK), is Eur Ing and has a M.Sc.
from the Technical university of Denmark.
Dr Daniel Joyeux, Effectis, France
Dr Daniel Joyeux is the chairman of Efectis France, French official Fire
resistance laboratory and leader of Fire Safety Engineer. He is also the
legal manager of the European Grouping including the four European laboratories.
He is an active member of numerous standardization and prestandardization
groups, as AFTES for fire safety of tunnel, AFCEN for fire
safety in Nuclear Plant, but also working groups from French ministries
for regulation evolution. He is also a member of SFPE French chapter, as a
developer of the FSE as scientific tools for fire safety design. After a PHD
on soot formation in 1993, he worked at CTICM and managed the fire
research and engineering section.
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Sponsorship fees and benefits
As Symposium Sponsor you will enjoy exposure at a prestigious international tunnel safety symposium – the International
Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS). Benefits are commensurate with the level of sponsorship, which is
determined by the total of in-kind and cash contributions. Sponsorship packages are offered at three different levels.
Benefit Gold Sponsor Silver Sponsor Bronze Sponsor
Price $12 000 $7 000 $4 500
Exhibit space 4 m 2 4 m 2 4 m 2
Full delegate registration 3 2 1
Your company name and logo in the Symposium program • • •
Your company logo, website address and a short description
on the Symposium website
• • •
Signage at the Symposium • • •
Leaflet in Delegate Bag (max 4 pages) • •
Your logo on the delegate bag
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Advertisement in the Symposium program Full page Half page* Quarter page*
* Note that it is possible to upgrade the advertisement space for a fee. Price can be provided on request.
Exclusive Platinum sponsorship is available. More information can be obtained on request.
You can also choose to particpitate as an exhibitor only. The price for this is $1500.
Exhibit floorplan
State Suite
Promenade Suit
Break-out room
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Grand Ballrom Foyer
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Elevator
Lobby
Grand Ballroom
= Table top exhibitors
Floor space 2 x 2 m (6,6’ x 6,6’)
Table size 1,8 x 0,8 m (6’x 30’’)
= High table
= Food and beverage
Plenary
Plaza Suite
For more information, contact
Fredrik Rosén
E-mail: fredrik.rosen@sp.se
Phone: +46 10 516 56 86
Mobile: +46 70 334 56 86
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Media partners
Tunnelling Journal delivers unrivalled editorial quality that features contemporary,
lively, cutting edge articles with specific and unparalleled relevance to the tunnelling
contractor, consultant, client and machine manufacturer. Published six times a year, the
print copy is partnered with a constantly updated website and a fortnightly newsletter.
This ensures readers are kept abreast of breaking news and relevant industry developments
as they happen. Further analysis and perspective is then offered in each published
issue.
Eurotransport is the leading bi-monthly technical journal for the urban public transport
industry. Readers are kept up-to-date with new developments and projects, covering
articles that impact this sector, including Automated Metros, CCTV / IP Surveillance,
Infrastructure, ITS, Light Rail & Tram, RTPI, Safety / Security, Smartcards and Ticketing.
ABC audited, Eurotransport is regularly distributed to 11,794 key decision makers across
Europe.
The FeuerTRUTZ Magazin is the only magazine for preventive fire protection in Germany.
With a bimonthly print run of around 7.000 copies the magazine reaches architects,
engineers- and planning offices, technical planner for structural and building fire
prevention, publicy appointed and experts for structural and building fire prevention.
The FeuerTRUTZ Magazin give direction to technical planner for structural and building
fire prevention and provides conceptions, building inspection in terms of fire protection,
active regulation and planning aids.
Fire Risk Management is the monthly magazine of the Fire Protection Association and
the Institution of Fire Engineers, and goes out to some 14,000 international fire safety
professionals each month. It features the latest news and views, as well as technical
articles on fire safety, building design and emergency response
TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine is the leading publication covering all facets of the
North American tunneling market. Launched in 1998, TBM is a bi-monthly publication
that reaches more than 5,000 construction professionals, delivering the latest news and
information on project updates, technical topics and issues shaping the market.
The FS-World.com magazine, the official publication of the Fire & Safety Group, published
both on-line and in print, provides up-to-date information, opinions, articles and
more from Fire & Safety Group Members, as well as from readers who are non-Members,
from companies, organizations and from the national and international press.
Direct by Design
TunnelTalk.com a web-only magazine designed as a gateway to the world wide web of
information about the global tunnelling industry. A magazine that is Direct by Design.
A site where readers will find what they are looking for, the search result, the answer to
the question, the information needed, the latest in news, views and video interviews.
Underground in Action
Fire & Rescue is the leading international publication that delivers the latest news and
technology to the municipal fire and rescue industries, targeting fire chiefs, coastguards,
search and rescue organisations and other key decision makers around the
world. Established for 20 years, Fire & Rescue is seen by 52,500 readers every quarter
who enjoy exceptional editorial coupled with a high quality product.
Industrial Fire Journal is published quarterly, Industrial Fire Journal is the internationally
recognised marketing leading journal, reporting world-wide to the Oil, Gas, Petrochemical,
Chemical, Power, Marine, Aviation and other high risk industries. It keeps its
52,000 international readership abreast of the changing pace of statutory regulations
governing fire protection within the world’s high risk industries. It covers risk assessment,
firefighting techniques, equipment and passive/active fire protection.
brandposten
Brandposten is published in Swedish and English by SP Fire Technology, and distributed
without charge to SP's customers, fire and rescue services, public authorities, certification
bodies, classification bodies, fire consultants, fire engineers and architects. The
Swedish edition is distributed in 6000 copies and the English edition in 1500 copies
worldwide.
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Event partners
The NI2 Center for Infrastructure Expertise (US) is a not-for-profit
applied research group dedicated to strengthening the resilience
of built critical infrastructure through the development, evaluation
and implementation of cutting edge solutions and technologies.
NI2 offers expertise in facility security; threat assessment; risk
analysis; emergency management and disaster preparedness; fire
protection; supply chain security; and maritime and port security.
www.ni2cie.org or dbliss@ni2.org.
L-SurF Foundation
L-surF is a competent partner to solve challenging safety & security
issues related to innovations in the design, construction and
operation of underground systems such as tunnels, terminals,
underground transport systems connected with shopping centres,
metro systems, car parks, etc.
Honorary sponsors
The Society of Fire Protection Engineers was established in 1950 and incorporated as in independent
organization in 1971. It is the professional society representing those practicing the field of fire protection
engineering. The Society has approximately 4500 members in the United States and abroad, and 57
regional chapters. The purpose of the Society is to advance the science and practice of fire protection
engineering and its allied fields, to maintain a high ethical standard among its members and to foster
fire protection engineering education.
IAFSS was founded with the primary objective of encouraging research into the science of preventing
and mitigating the adverse effects of fires and of providing a forum for presenting the results of such
research. The International Association for Fire Safety Science perceives its role to lie in the scientific
bases for achieving progress in unsolved fire problems. It will seek cooperation with other organizations,
be they concerned with application or with the sciences that are fundamental to our interests in fire. It
will seek to promote high standards, to encourage and stimulate scientists to address fire problems, to
provide the necessary scientific foundations and means to facilitate applications aimed at reducing life
and property loss.
ITA-COSUF the Centre of Excellence for world-wide exchange of information and know-how
regarding safety and security of underground facilities.
The mission of the international nonprofit NFPA, established in 1896, is to reduce the worldwide burden
of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and
standards, research, training, and education. The world's leading advocate of fire prevention and an
authoritative source on public safety, NFPA develops, publishes, and disseminates more than 300 consensus
codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks. NFPA
membership totals more than 81,000 individuals around the world and more than 80 national trade and
professional organizations.
The FDNY Foundation is the official 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to benefit the New York City Fire
Department. The funds raised assist the FDNY in its mission to prevent and respond to fires, medical
emergencies, disasters and terrorist acts, protecting the lives and property of residents and visitors in
New York City. The FDNY Foundation funds programs to help meet the Department's training, equipment,
and education needs.
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For more information, contact
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden | Fire Technology
P O Box 857 | SE-501 15 Borås | SWEDEN
email: istss@sp.se | www.istss.se
www.istss.se