Fire and Materials 2007 Conference: Programme Tuesday 30th January

	Tuesday 30th January
8.30	Registration
9.00	BUILDINGS SESSION Session Chair: Robert Bill Jnr, FM Global, USA
	Combustibility of Interior Finish and Building Materials using Small-Scale, Steiner Tunnel, and Room-Corner Tests Randy Laymon, P Gandhi, X Liu, UL, USA
	Application of Fire Safety Engineering to Define the Domain of Application of Self-Supporting Double Skin Metal Faced Insulating Sandwich Panels in Public Buildings Eric Guillaume, A Sainrat, C Blanc, LNE/CEMATE/DCAF and D Joyeux, A Rabilloud, P Raynaud, Efectis-France, France
	Prediction of Fire Exposure and Characterization of the Burning Behavior of Wood for the Design of a Heavy-timber “Fire-proof Building” under Localized Fire Scenario Satomi Inaba, Y Hasemi, S Tsuchiya, N Yasui, Waseda University, M Yoshida, Building Research Institute and N Kawamura, Hiroshi Naito & Assocs, Japan
10.00	Discussion
10.20	Refreshment Break
10.50	Session Chair: Fred Mowrer, University of Maryland, USA
	Affect of Laminate Construction on ASTM E-84 Flame Spread and Smoke Values Michael Stevens, Ashland Speciality Chemical Company, USA
	Effect of Resin Type and Glass Content on the Fire Characteristics of Typical FRP Composites Nicholas Dembsey, M Avila, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and C Dore, Abate Fire Technologies, USA
	Modelling Fire Scenarios in Residential Buildings with Respect to the Benefit of Smoke Detectors and Flame Retardants in High Risk Items Anja Hofmann, C Knaust, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) and A Beard, Clariant Corporation, Germany
11.50	Discussion
12.10	Lunch
13.50	FURNITURE /FURNISHINGS SESSION Session Chair: Patrick van Hees, SP, Sweden	WILDLAND/URBAN INTERFACE SESSION Session Chair: Joe Zicherman, Fire Cause Analysis, USA
	Assessment of Fire Safety Requirements to Upholstered Furniture and Mattresses Anne Steen-Hansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and B Kristoffersen, SINTEF NBL, Norway	Firebrand Protection as the Key Design Element for Structure Survival During Catastrophic Wildland Fires Joe Mitchell, M-bar Technologies & Consulting, USA
	Full-Scale Analysis on Fire Characteristics of a Furnished Office Room Ta-Hui Lin, C-W Wu, National Cheng Kung University, K-J Chen, C-M Lai, Leader University and C-J Chen, M-J Tsai, H-C Su, Ministry of Interior, Taiwan	Are all Wildland Fire Shelters Suitable for Protecting Fire Fighters? Marcelo Hirschler, GBH Int'l, USA
	Development of a Fuel Package to Simulate a Residential Basement Fire Alex Bwalya, NRC, Canada	Using FIRETEC To Describe Firebrand Behaviour in Wildfires Eunmo Koo, P Pagni, Univ of California, Berkeley and R Linn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
14.50	Discussion
15.05	Refreshment Break
	Effects of Polyurethane Mattress Foam Properties and Geometry on Small and Large-Scale Fire Test Results Elizabeth Weckman, M Hurd, University of Waterloo and D Torvi, University of Saskatchewan, Canada	Burning Characteristics of Individual Douglas-Fir Trees in the Wildland/Urban Interface John Woycheese, Worcester Polytechnic Inst and E Schulz Baker, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
	Why do we Need a Standard Furniture Calorimeter Fire Test? Marcelo Hirschler, GBH Int'l, USA	The Ignition of Green and Preburn Wood by Radiation Siew Mei Lim, M Yit Lin Chew, Nat'l University of Singapore, Singapore
	Cost Benefit Analysis Model for Fire Safety and DecaBDE Case Study Margaret Simonson, P Andersson, SP Fire Technology, Sweden and M van den Berg, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
16.35	Discussion
16.35	Close
18.30	Optional Dinner: Private Cable Cars to China town; Chinese Banquet at Empress of China Restaurant Rest of evening at leisure (return to hotels individually)

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