The 2nd Conference on Integrated Risk Management Planning took place on the 5th and 6th May 2011. More than 50 registered delegates used this excellent opportunity to meet other researchers in their area to disseminate and discuss research findings in the field of Integrated Risk Management Planning, Emergency Planning and Fire Safety Management.
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Two posters will be presented at this year's conference. The first poster titled "E-ProBuild: Evaluation of Fire Prevention and Protection Activities for Commercial, Public and Heritage Buildings" will describe the project and the recent progression.
The second poster (Evaluating the Fire Risk for Heritage Sites to improve local Risk Assessment) focuses on the heritage related research of the project.
The programme can be found here: RE2010 Programme
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A position paper, describing the project, will be presented at the 2010 FireSEAT Symposium.
The programme can be found here: FireSEAT 2010 Programme
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A paper on the use of Web Service Architectures and Advanced Simulation Tools in the Emergency Services will be presented at the International Systems Safety Conference 2010 in Minneapolis (US). The paper describes the work on threats and benefits of information sharing in Emergency Planning Systems as well as the development of an early prototype using web-services for fast and flexible application development.

A poster including a 6-pages paper was accepted for Interflam 2010 Conference (5-7 July 2010) in Nottingham. The presentation will summarise the research work of the project and thereby especially focusing on Integrated Risk Management Planning and Information Sharing within the decision-making process. The poster and the paper will be included in the conference proceedings.

As part of this project, Loughborough University hosted a one day conference for both academics and practitioners who wished to keep up-to-date with the latest fire risk management research and developments and interact with other active contributors to this important area. More than 60 delegates attended the conference and listened to interesting talks on the following topics:

• Dino Bouchlaghem: Conference Opening
• Alistair Clarke: Multi-Objective Decision Making for the Fire and Rescue Services – A Scoping Study
• Steve Emery: Impact of Fire on Our Heritage
• Simon Hunt: Integrated Risk Management Planning, an operational perspective
• Selda Konukcu, Stefan Raue: Evaluation of Prevention and Protection Activities on Commercial, Public and Heritage Buildings
• George Milburn: Introduction to the Fire Service Emergency Cover (FSEC) Toolkit
• Andrew Miller: Fire Risk Management – An insurer's view
• Cath Reynolds: IRMP
• Paul Woods: Risk – Whose problem?

Selda Konukcu won the poster award for the presentation of the project proposal and the first findings of the early project stages. (10th November 2009)