Certification of fire safety designs in accordance with
ISO standards
Although fire safety devices such as sprinklers and fire barriers are required to be certified in building fire codes, presently there is no certification method for the fire safety engineering design process which results in the specification
of the necessary fire safety devices.
An ISO standard, ISO/IEC TR 17032, Guidelines and examples of a scheme for the certification of processes, provides guidance on the certification of processes such as fire safety engineering.
Dr. Dey was the US expert to the ISO working group which developed ISO/IEC TR 17032. He developed a specific annex (A.8) that was included in ISO/IEC TR 17032 which discusses its use for certifying fire safety designs based on fire safety engineering. See Benefits and use of ISO/IEC 17032 for further details.
A critical element of the fire safety engineering process is the verification and validation of fire calculation methods. Dr. Dey was elected by his international colleagues to be a Convenor in the ISO technical committee for fire safety. As Convernor, he led the effort to develop ISO 16730-1:2015: Fire safety engineering — Procedures and requirements for verification and validation of calculation methods.
ISO 16730-1:2015 is critical in the certification process of a fire safety design. See videos and papers below for further details on the importance of the adequate verification and validation of fire safety calculation methods.
ISO standards
Although fire safety devices such as sprinklers and fire barriers are required to be certified in building fire codes, presently there is no certification method for the fire safety engineering design process which results in the specification
of the necessary fire safety devices.
An ISO standard, ISO/IEC TR 17032, Guidelines and examples of a scheme for the certification of processes, provides guidance on the certification of processes such as fire safety engineering.
Dr. Dey was the US expert to the ISO working group which developed ISO/IEC TR 17032. He developed a specific annex (A.8) that was included in ISO/IEC TR 17032 which discusses its use for certifying fire safety designs based on fire safety engineering. See Benefits and use of ISO/IEC 17032 for further details.
A critical element of the fire safety engineering process is the verification and validation of fire calculation methods. Dr. Dey was elected by his international colleagues to be a Convenor in the ISO technical committee for fire safety. As Convernor, he led the effort to develop ISO 16730-1:2015: Fire safety engineering — Procedures and requirements for verification and validation of calculation methods.
ISO 16730-1:2015 is critical in the certification process of a fire safety design. See videos and papers below for further details on the importance of the adequate verification and validation of fire safety calculation methods.
Videos
Workshop on Best Practices for Fire Safety Engineering, Chengdu, CHINA
