Expert Meeting: FSE in High-rise Buildings

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Michael Strömgren – SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut
Michael is a specialist on fire safety regulations and fire safety engineering at SP Fire Technology. He was responsible for the recent revision of the Swedish fire safety regulations that were issued by Boverket, the national building authority, where he worked for four years. The new regulations is the next step for performance-based regulations in Sweden and include new recommendations on fire safety engineering. Michael is also involved in SFPE Europe and the European standardization, developing standards on fire safety engineering.

Jaap Wijnia (The Netherlands) – New Orleans
Jaap Wijnia graduated from Delft University of Technology with a degree in Building Physics from the faculty of Civil Engineering. In the early nineties he became researcher at the DUT researching sustainability for the European Combine-project. In 1995 he became an advisor at Peutz BV in Zoetermeer. Between 2001 and 2004 he was stationed in London to work on the Royal Albert Hall project.
From 2000 onwards he specialises in fire safety engineering, where large projects (i.a. renovation Ahoy) have his interest. He was involved with the fire safety concepts for high-rise residential buildings in Rotterdam: Montevideo and New Orleans.

Simon Lay (UK) – Beetham Tower
Reaching for the sky was always Simon’s passion which led him to study aeronautics and then work in fluid mechanics research at the University of Manchester. Simon entered Fire Engineering through the Nuclear sector and realised that he had found an engineering discipline that could mix his desire to always question presumptions with analytical design and a desire to strive always for the best in design. Simon’s work focuses on a deconstruction approach to fire safety design.
Dissecting every rule and established practices to ask ‘why’?. Challenging anyone who thinks that it is acceptable to adopt a design, just because it was the way it was done last time is Simon’s signature.

Jan Nählinder (Sweden) – Turning Torso
Jan graduated from the University of Lund with a degree in Fire Protection Engineering. After a few years in testing, sales and insurance he focused on the role of a consultant. At that time, 1995,
the building code regarding fire protection changed from descriptive to performance based in Sweden. During a ten year period he was one of the leading consultants in the south of Sweden both with his
own projects and as an owner and CEO of the company Øresund Safety Advisers that became the largest consultant group in the region. The last few years, he has focused more on management than fire protection engineering, and from this fall he is the owner and CEO of a new company (Process Safety Group) that focusses on the industry and their special needs.

Ruud van Herpen – Lector Fire Safety Engineering, Enschede
Ruud van Herpen graduated with honours from the Delft University of Technology as a Civil Engineer, after which he worked as a building physics consultant at a number of companies, before becoming overall technical director at Nieman consulting engineers BV in Zwolle in 2009. Besides his work as technical director, he teaches fire safety in buildings at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Fire Safety Engineering at Hanze University in Groningen and NIFV-brandweeracademie Arnhem, is a guest teacher building-physics at Delft University of Technology, and is both author and member of a number of standardisation committees regarding fire safety aspects in buildings.

Christoph Klinzmann – hhpberlin
Has been with hhpberlin since 2009, working in the business unit “Engineering methods” and designs fire protection and life safety concepts in our Hamburg branch. Christoph Klinzmann studied construction engineering at Braunschweig University of Technology („Technische Universität Braunschweig “). Until 2009, he worked as a research assistan t and adjunct lecturer at the Institut für Baustoffe, Massivbau und Brandschutz (iBMB, Institute for Construction Materials , Solid Structures and Fire Safety) with Prof. Hosser. In June of 2008, he submitted his Ph.D.thesis on “Computer assisted, probabilistic evaluation of building structures involving constructional monitoring masures”..