New Zealand hosts international meeting for fire engineering experts
In April 2010 a subcommittee of the International Organization for Standardization technical committee on 'Fire safety engineering' (ISO TC 92/SC4) met in Christchurch at meetings held at the University of Canterbury. More than 20 fire engineering experts from eight countries were present at the meeting. Representatives from several countries were unable to attend due to travel disruptions resulting from the Icelandic volcano.
New Zealand participation in ISO TC 92/SC4 and its working groups provides an important opportunity for New Zealand fire engineering research and implementation to feed into and be informed by international Standards and best practice. The possible adoption of several ISO TC 92 produced documents is also being considered as part of New Zealand's proposed fire safety engineering framework.
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Committee: P4517 Revision
Project Manager: Stuart Ng
Estimated Publication Date: May 2010
Comments: The Standard is being revised to emphasise its application to domestic occupancies only and to address design and installation issues that have been identified since publication. On target for publication in May 2010.
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