Fire protection increasingly risk-based?
Risk-oriented fire protection will play a more important role throughout Switzerland in the future. In the 2026 fire protection regulations, acceptable cost-benefit ratios of fire protection measures are to be introduced in a justified and comprehensible form. The goal is that all buildings guarantee a minimum level of protection for their users.
In Switzerland, approximately four out of five buildings are planned with predefined fire protection measures and approved by the authorities. The currently valid fire protection regulations (BSV 2015) already take different user risks into account. This is evidenced by the fact that for various building types and their forms of use, tailor-made measures are required to achieve the protection goals. However, the prescriptive fire protection regulations also allow for completely different solutions - those that are not implemented according to the standard scheme - by means of verification and applied engineering methods.
How does standardized fire protection in combination with equivalent, deviating solutions already find application today? Cost pressure, a dynamic environment and many decisive criteria - for example, type of construction, location, use, occupancy, fire loads, building geometry and many more - make construction projects seem complex. Conflicts of objectives in fire protection are also not uncommon. In order to meet the objectives of the building owner, the protection goals and, in principle, the interests of all those involved in the construction and projects, holistic solutions in fire protection are required. Solutions that combine standard and performance-oriented methods.
Interested parties will receive detailed specialist knowledge on the subject of fire protection directly from the experts at a symposium on March 16, 2023 in Zurich. Various presentations on new possibilities, scientific findings, current methods and technologies as well as project examples from practice form the basis for this exciting knowledge transfer. The conference is organized by Save AG. This company specializes in the practical transfer of knowledge between security experts on the topics of risk management, corporate security, building security, safety and health protection (AS&GS), fire protection, information and infrastructure security, population protection as well as machine and process safety, incident prevention, natural and environmental hazards, guarding and integral security concepts.
Source and further information: Save Inc.
