In this webinar, RISCAuthority Principal Consultant, Adrian Butler will explore fire safety for combined heat and power installations ahead of the publication of Need to Know Guide RE5: Combined Heat and Power.

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

1. Describe the most common types of combined heat and power (CHP) in use, including the principles of combined cycle units
2. Identify key fire hazards and controls for typical CHP units
3. Explain the emerging fuels that are most likely to have an impact on energy demands in the future and how these compare with respect to their key characteristics, including energy density

In this webinar, FPA Deputy Managing Director, Howard Passey will cover the extensive legislative changes implemented following the Grenfell Tower fire to address the recommendations made in the Building a Safer Future Report. He will focus on the principal changes introduced and consider, where practicable, the likely impacts.

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

1. Explain the current legislative landscape for fire and changes implemented since Grenfell.
2. Describe the changes implemented through the introduction of The Building Safety Act 2022, The Fire Safety Act 2021, The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
3. Appreciate the principal facets of the Building Safety Act in particular its scope and those in relation to the Building Safety Regulator, safety cases, the ‘golden thread’ and construction ‘Gateways’.
4. Describe the requirements for the competence for all involved in the design, construction, and management of buildings with a particular focus on fire risk assessors.

Legislation and Impacts Slide Pack

In this webinar, the FPA’s Technical Director, George Edwardes will cover the current routes to compliance for external cladding systems and discuss the limitations of existing test methods. He will explain how RISC501 has overcome these limitations, detailing the new test method and explaining how it differs from the existing BS 8414 test. Despite the differences, the webinar will consider how a system can be tested simultaneously to both BS 8414 and RISC501.

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Principal Consultant, Adrian Butler will focus on fire safety for commercial and industrial rooftop PV installations, covering both hazards and good practice risk control measures. Adrian will reference the new RC62 Joint Code of Practice: Recommendations for fire safety with PV panel installations and the related Need to Know Guide.

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Technical Consultant Ian Abley will consider the problem of extensive cavities in Modular Towers as a new residential building type.

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Technical Consultant and author of BDM01, Ian Abley will introduce the 26 Essential Principles over 6 phases of decision making, arranged against the RIBA Plan of Work 2020. These give a memorable framework for the enhancements on statutory guidance to Building Regulations that insurers value, and logically combine as a checklist of 300 decisive actions.

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Principal Consultant and author of RC59, Adrian Butler will cover a hazard review and key guidance for charging EVs with lithium-ion batteries from the recently updated RC59 document, including a review of major enclosed car park fires.

In this webinar, the FPA’s Technical Steering Group Manager, George Edwardes addresses how the chemistry behind insulation materials has secretly changed over the last 20 years and the impact this has had on fire performance.

Following the recent update to the LPC Technical Bulletins and the introduction of new LPC Technical Bulletins, this 1-hour webinar delivered by Dale Kinnersley will run through the changes and implications for the sprinkler industry moving forward.

In this webinar, Technical Consultant Ian Abley introduces each of the Essential Principles for improvements in asset protection and explains their importance in the decision-making process of building projects.