A fire in space and a skyscraper – what unites them? The answer is for 100+ Forum Russia!

Compared to conventional buildings, high-rise buildings, due to their specifics, have a high degree of potential fire danger. A fire in high-rise buildings develops very quickly, vertically, which greatly complicates evacuation and rescue operations. How can we prevent the occurrence of a fire hazard in a skyscraper at the level of special technical conditions and regulatory regulation? The answer to this question will be available at the international forum on high-rise construction 100+ ForumRussia, which will be held in Yekaterinburg on September 24-26, 2014.

The program of the event includes a conference and thematic round tables, presentations of domestic and foreign high-rise projects. Among the speakers and guests are the leaders of the global construction and architectural business, government officials and a wide range of professionals. The moderators and speakers of the round table on fire safety and evacuation in skyscrapers will be Vladimir Grachev and Adam Coulard.

Vladimir Grachev is not only the author of a number of books and publications on fire safety, disproportionate (progressive) collapse, flexible rationing, the Russian construction community knows him as the founder of the Yekaterinburg design bureau Grachev and Partners. The main activity of the bureau is the integrated design of residential and public buildings. The company's activities also include the development of specialized software for performing calculations in the field of fire safety and sanitary requirements, monitoring systems for the technical condition of buildings and structures. It should be noted that Grachev will also participate in the round table "Special technical conditions and regulatory regulation of high-rise construction in Russia."

The second speaker of the round table on fire safety is a guest from the UK, Adam Coulard, an analyst at the Center for Fire Safety Research in Construction at the University of Edinburgh and scientific coordinator of the project "Analysis of real fires in the design of high–rise buildings." Coulard's extensive research interests include, among other things, fire safety strategies and functional design of unique infrastructure (for high-rise buildings, historical heritage sites and aircraft), sensor modeling of fire tests, optimization of forest fire risks and much more. In addition, Adam Coulard is a member of the European Space Agency's thematic working group on improving fire safety in outer space.