Fire protection

What does fire protection mean? 

Fire protection means preventing fire, limiting its spread and ensuring that people can evacuate safely in case of fire. The term includes technical solutions, such as installing fire alarm and sprinkler systems, to design buildings with fireproof materials, organisational practices and human behaviour. 

Our research in fire protection

RISE research in fire protection focuses on developing new technologies, methods, and materials to prevent and fight fires. The research covers assessing different fire risks, developing more efficient sprinkler systems, preventing forest fires to creating new types of fireproof materials. 

Our services in fire protection

RISE has broad and deep knowledge in fire protection. We offer services such as fire investigation, counselling, training, testing, certification, and research. In our advanced laboratories and test facilities we perform fire experiments on different scales. For instance, we can simulate different fire scenarios, test building products and function test sprinkler heads.

This is included in fire protection:

•  Industrial safety: we have expertise in fire risks associated with industrial applications, such as fire spread and protection of warehouses, fire protection of cisterns, storage of self-heating materials, dust explosions, sprinklers and extinguishing agents. 

•  Fire resistance: we can evaluate and improve the fire resistance of different materials, structures and products. This includes doors, windows, walls, ceilings, furniture, and electronics.

•  Fire development and fire spread: To analyse and model how a fire starts, grows, and spreads in different settings, such as buildings, vehicles, tunnels, and forests is one of our common services. Various scenarios are then built up as needed, either in our labs or as a computer model.

•  Firefighting and rescue: From time to time, we assist the fire and rescue services. We then support fire and rescue professionals in developing methods to prevent, manage and extinguish different types of fires. The fires can be residential-, forest-, ground-, or underground fires. 

•  Fire, health and environment: We have extensive experience in measuring and analysing the substances that arise when fires occur in different materials and under varying conditions, and how these substances disperse. To investigate and assess the damage and consequences of fire, such as personal injury, material damage, environmental impact, and social disruption is one of our available services.

•  Fire and damage investigations: At the request of companies, insurance companies, police, and other authorities, we carry out independent fire investigations. In some cases, we investigate the condition of structures and the need for action after a fire.