7th Asia-Oceania Symposium (AOFST), 20-22 Sept 2007, Hong Kong

Rapid rise of the economics in the Far East has led to many large-scale new construction projects. As the number of fires, including arson and terrorist attack fires, appears to be increasing in the past ten years, fire safety has to be considered carefully.

TOPICS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE SYMPOSIUM ARE:

• Fire science: Ignition, flame spread, heat release rate, flashover, extinguishing mechanism.

• Fire models: Fire zone model, computational fluid dynamics or numerical heat transfer, airflow network models.

• Materials: Fire behaviour, tests, fundamental properties, combustibility, fire retardants, heat release rate, smoke toxicity.

• Fire hazard assessment: Fire environment, empirical relations, engineering tools, full-scale burning tests required, special considerations for supertall buildings, shopping mall complexes, public transport interchanges, big terminals.

• Passive building construction: Compartmentation, fire resisting construction, evacuation design, means of access for firefighting, testing and control of fire safe materials.

• Active fire protection systems: New fire systems, halon substitutes, water mist fire suppression systems, green firefighting techniques, smoke management systems, intelligent fire detection and unwanted fire alarms.

• Fire safety management: Fire safety plan, maintenance plan, staff training plan, fire action plan, fire prevention plan, technology/procedure/behaviour (TPB).

• Safety codes: Fire codes for hardware fire safety provisions, difficulties in implementing engineering performance-based fire codes, responsibilities of different parties, education and training desired

Language: The official language of 7AOFST is English.

Important dates
- Notification of paper acceptance 30 Apr 2007
- Deadline for final paper submission 30 Jun 2007

Abstracts and papers should be submitted to the Symposium Secretary:

Miss Y.Y. Yeung
E-mail: beelize@polyu.edu.hk
Tel: (852) 2766 5862 Fax: (852) 2765 7198
Areas of Strength: Fire Safety Engineering
Department of Building Services Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRMAN
Professor W.K. Chow, Areas of Strength: Fire Safety Engineering,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,Hong Kong, China

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Professor Y. Hasemi, Waseda University, Japan

PRIZE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Professor W.C. Fan, University of Science and Technology of China, China

ADVISORS
Professor T. Hirano, Chiba Institute of Science, Japan
Professor B.Z. Dlugogorski, The University of Newcastle, Australia

An IAFSS Activity organised by
Areas of Strength: Fire Safety Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

SUPPORTING ORGANIZERS
China Public Security
Society of Fire Protection Engineers
Hong Kong Chapter
Asian Fire Fighting
State Key Laboratory of Fire Science
University of Science and Technology of China

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ADVISING COMMITTEE
Mr. B. An, Korea
Dr. M.Y.L. Chew, Singapore
Professor S.W. Chien, Taiwan, ROC
Professor K.C. Chung, Taiwan, ROC
Professor H. Ding, China
Mr. V.P. Dowling, Australia
Professor M.X. Fang, China
Professor Y. Gao, China
Dr. A.K. Gupta, India
Professor G. Hadjisophocleous, Canada
Dr. Y. He, Australia
Professor R. Huo, China
Professor H. Kim, Korea
Dr. J.D. Kim, Korea
Professor E. Kennedy, Australia
Dr. W.H. Kim, Korea
Professor S. Kumar, India
Dr. A.M.Y. Lei, Taiwan, ROC
Professor G.X. Liao, China
Professor V. Novozhilov, UK
Professor A. Sekizawa, Japan
Professor Y.N. Shebeko, Russia
Dr. M. Spearpoint, New Zealand
Professor T. Tanaka, Japan
Ms. C. Wade, New Zealand
Dr. Y.W. Wong, Singapore
Mr. Q.H. Wu, China
Professor W.W. Yuen, USA
Dr. J. Yang, USA
Mr. J.C. Yang, China
Professor K.H. Yang, Taiwan, ROC
Local Organizing Committee
Professor W.K. Chow (Chairman)
Dr. R.K.K. Yuen Dr. N.K. Fong
Dr. S.M. Lo Dr. G.C.H. Lui
Dr. B. Yao Mr. K.W. Lau
Dr. Y.Z. Li Mr. P.Y.C. Chan
Dr. C.S. Jiang Miss F.S.C. Tsui

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8th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science
September 18-23, 2005, Beijing, China

OVERVIEW
The Eighth International Symposium on Fire Safety Science was held at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, from 18-23 September 2005. The symposium was organized by the China Fire Protection Association (CFPA) with Tsinghua University and University of Science and Technology of China as co-organizers. There were 456 registrants attending three parallel sessions in which 123 papers and 8 invited lectures were presented and a poster session in which 60 posters were displayed. Twenty-five countries were represented: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom and United States of America. Papers and poster abstracts were accepted on the basis of their quality and originality in the science of fire safety and its applications.

The opening ceremony was conducted by representatives from the host country and IAFSS. His Excellency Zhou Yong Kang, Councilor and Minister of the Public Security of the Peoples Republic of China provided the initial remarks followed by Prof. Dougal Drysdale, the IAFSS Chairman.

Following the opening ceremony, Dr. Howard Baum, National Institute of Standards and Technology, delivered the Howard W. Emmons Plenary Lecture entitled "Simulating Fire Effects on Complex Building Structures.” Seven invited papers were also presented during the course of the symposium by Prof. Jean-Marc Franssen, Prof. Dorothy Bruck, Dr. Kevin McGrattan, Prof. Fan Weicheng , Prof. Ai Sekizawa, Prof. Richard Hull (for Prof. Giovanni Camino) and Major General Guo Tienan, Head of the Fire Department of the Ministry of Public Security who delivered a special invited lecture. “The Fire Situation and the Needs for Science and Technology on Fire Protection in China”.

At the Award Reception and Banquet, Prof. D. Drysdale, Chair of the Symposium Awards Committee, presented the Howard W. Emmons Lectureship Award to Dr. Howard Baum. The P.H. Thomas Silver Medal of Excellence for the best paper at the Seventh Symposium was awarded to D.W. Weinert, T.G. Cleary, G.W. Mulholland, and P.F. Beever for their paper entitled “Light Scattering Characteristics and Size Distribution of Smoke and Nuisance Aerosols.” The K. Kawagoe Gold Medal for outstanding lifelong contributions to fire safety science was presented to Prof. Sizuo Yokoi and accepted by his son. Dr. P.A. Croce, Chair of the Forum for International Cooperation on Fire Research, presented the V. Sjolin Award to Prof. Dougal Drysdale in recognition of his contributions to fire safety science.

The Symposium Proceedings include all papers delivered at the Eighth Symposium and available January 2006. Proceedings will be mailed out to attendees and then available for purchase from the IAFSS Secretariat. Papers are organized in the proceedings by the session topics at the symposium. The content of the symposium proceedings have also been recorded in electronic form and provided on CD-ROM in color. The CD will come be included with the hardback proceedings and also available to purchase as a separate item .

The Association would like to thank FM Global for being the principal sponsor of the symposium. In addition, the Association would like to extend its gratitude to all the organizations, committee members, and other volunteers that assisted in making this symposium so successful. A special thanks is given to the organizers, China Fire Protection Association (CFPA), Tsinghua University, and University of Science and Technology of China, who provided first class hospitality as well as an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas on fire safety science. The Association would also like to greatly thank all of those involved in the review, selection, and editing of the papers for the conference. A special thanks is given to Dr. Craig Beyler, Chair of the Program Committee, for organizing and leading the committee on the selection of papers, and all of the program committee members who interacted with authors and reviewers as well as reviewed final manuscripts to ensure all reviewer comments were addressed. Many thanks go to Ms. Judy Hanacek-Kameid along with Ms. U. Isfahani and Ms. K. Tooren of Hughes Associates, Inc. for their great effort in assembling the printed and CD-ROM version of the Symposium Proceedings.

The Chairs of the Publication Committee also wish to thank Dr. Dave Evans, Chair of the Publication Committee of the Seventh Symposium, for his advice and suggestions in preparing this symposium volume.

Daniel T. Gottuk, Brian Y. Lattimer
Chairs, Publications Committee
Hughes Associates, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
October 2005