Eurofire is “the” European Fire Safety Engineering Conference held in a European country every two years.

Over the last two decades five EUROFIRE Conferences have taken place in Belgium and France. Following the last successful conference in Paris 2011 (280 participants) EUROFIRE is now very firmly established in the events calendar. The next EUROFIRE conference will take place in Basel, Switzerland on 9 & 10 October 2013 and the one after that in Poland in 2015.

The main aim of this event is to support knowledge advancement and to facilitate information exchange with regard to fire engineering protection. The main topics for 2013 will be:-

• Measuring Quality of Fire Safety Engineering Designs
• Architectural Trends – sub-zero; multi use; high rise
• Measuring the Cost Efficiency of Fire Engineering Design – the Cost over the Life Cycle
• How to define the goals of the Fire Safety Engineer?
• What price is paid for the level of fire safety?
• Risk Analysis
  

WHO SHOULD ATTEND EUROFIRE ?
Like many other fire protection events, EUROFIRE attracts participation from a wide audience, namely fire protection- and construction experts, scientists and public authority personnel as well as representatives from industry and trade sectors. The aim of EUROFIRE is to ensure a holistic approach to successful fire protection rather than promote standardization of any country-specific methods and standards. This means that regardless of the country specific standards and regulations, the conference show-cases potential solutions by using applied research methods to work, not only on every-day problems but right through to highly specialised difficulties in fire safety.

The technical programme includes presentations and lectures which are important and interesting for industrial companies such as insurance enterprises, e.g., FM-Global, to discuss specific issues or general problems and to find appropriate engineering solutions. Similarly, country specific markets can be analysed and worked through much more easily by face-to-face contact which encourages a better understanding of the relationships between regulations and standards. Thus specialists have an option to find new methods and to discover original problem-solving approaches outside their usual surroundings. Moreover, even fire departments, which are not necessarily involved in any scientific area, find EUROFIRE a valuable event in which to participate. EUROFIRE 2011 Paris was supported by the French interior ministry and supported by the Paris fire brigade which used the conference as part of its 200 year jubilee celebrations.