CEN/TR 17524:2020
(Main)Fire safety engineering in Europe - Review of national requirements and application
Fire safety engineering in Europe - Review of national requirements and application
This document gives an overview of the evolution of regulations and application of Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) in Europe. Based on work performed in 2001-2002, a full update of information has been done. A global survey based on questionnaires defined in 2001, the evolution and possible perspectives of the FSE practices within two perimeters are presented:
- The first perimeter is the same perimeter analysed in 2001 corresponding to the European Union defined in 2001 extended to European countries with European Union agreement (Switzerland, Norwegian and Iceland).
- The second perimeter is the European Union perimeter of 2016 extended to European countries with European Union agreement (Switzerland, Norwegian and Iceland).
Conclusions and initiatives of the 2001 proposals were analysed 15 years after, with and without the extension of European Union. New initiatives have since been proposed.
In addition, the state-of-the-art of Fire Safety Engineering is updated.
Brandschutzingenieurwesen in Europa - Übersicht der nationalen Anforderungen und Anwendung
L’Ingénierie de sécurité incendie en Europe - Revue des exigences nationales et application
Požarno inženirstvo v Evropi - Pregled nacionalnih zahtev in uporaba
General Information
Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-oktober-2020
Požarno inženirstvo v Evropi - Pregled nacionalnih zahtev in uporaba
Fire safety engineering in Europe - Review of national requirements and application
Brandschutzingenieurwesen in Europa - Anforderungen und Anwendung
L’Ingénierie de sécurité incendie en Europe - Revue des exigences nationales et
application
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TR 17524:2020
ICS:
13.220.01 Varstvo pred požarom na Protection against fire in
splošno general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
CEN/TR 17524
TECHNICAL REPORT
RAPPORT TECHNIQUE
August 2020
TECHNISCHER BERICHT
ICS 13.220.01
English Version
Fire safety engineering in Europe - Review of national
requirements and application
L'Ingénierie de sécurité incendie en Europe - Revue Brandschutzingenieurwesen in Europa - Übersicht der
des exigences nationales et application nationalen Anforderungen und Anwendung
This Technical Report was approved by CEN on 10 August 2020. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 127.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and
United Kingdom.
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worldwide for CEN national Members.
Contents Page
European foreword . 3
Introduction . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references . 5
3 Terms and definitions . 5
4 The Benefeu programme . 5
4.1 Organization and tasks . 5
4.2 Task A – Current regulations in member states . 6
4.3 Task B – State-of-the-art FSE . 7
4.4 Task C – Initiatives and cost-benefit analysis . 7
5 Additional programme . 9
6 Updated survey of EU member states in 2001 . 9
6.1 Survey conditions . 9
6.2 Fire regulations . 11
6.3 Enforcement of the fire regulations . 11
6.4 Societal goals and functional requirements . 13
6.5 Technical details in the regulation . 15
6.6 Alternative approval system or derogation . 16
6.7 Change of regulation . 17
6.8 Cost/benefit analyses . 24
6.9 Non-regulatory obligation . 25
6.10 Fire safety engineering . 27
6.11 Education and training . 28
6.12 Conclusions for 2001-MS . 30
7 Enlarged survey of EU members states in 2016 . 30
7.1 Survey conditions . 30
7.2 Enforcement of the fire regulations . 31
7.3 Goals for society and functional requirements . 33
7.4 Technical details in the regulation . 35
7.5 Alternative approval system or derogation . 36
7.6 Change of regulation . 37
7.7 Costs/benefit analysis . 43
7.8 Non-regulatory obligations . 44
7.9 Fire safety engineering . 46
7.10 Education and training . 47
7.11 Conclusions for the 2016-MS . 49
8 State of the art of FSE . 50
8.1 Current state of the art . 50
8.2 Need of research and development . 58
8.3 Justification of product performance in Fire Safety Engineering . 63
8.4 Conclusion from task B of Benefeu . 65
9 Conclusions . 65
Bibliography . 67
European foreword
This document (CEN/TR 17524:2020) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 127 “Fire
safety in buildings”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Introduction
On 1 May 2001, the Benefeu project started with a consortium managed by Warrington Fire Research
(UK) composed of CTICM (activity transferred to Efectis France), DIFT, IST, RUG and TNO (activity
transferred to Efectis Nederland).
The programme was financed by the European Commission (EC contract EDT/01/503480).
With a duration of one year, the programme aimed to identify the potential benefit of Fire Safety
Engineering in the European Union.
The CEN TC127 WG8 dedicated to Fire Safety Engineering identified a need of updating the work
performed within the BENEFU programme as a benefit for European standardization work and European
member states.
1 Scope
This document gives an overview of the evolution of regulations and application of Fire Safety
Engineering (FSE) in Europe. Based on work performed in 2001-2002, a full update of information has
been done. A global survey based on questionnaires defined in 2001, the evolution and possible
perspectives of the FSE practices within two perimeters are presented:
The first perimeter is the same perimeter analysed in 2001 corresponding to the European Union
defined in 2001 extended to European countries with European Union agreement (Switzerland,
Norwegian and Iceland).
The second perimeter is the European Union perimeter of 2016 extended to European countries with
European Union agreement (Switzerland, Norwegian and Iceland).
Conclusions and initiatives of the 2001 proposals were analysed 15 years after, with and without the
extension of European Union. New initiatives have since been proposed.
In addition, the state-of-the-art of Fire Safety Engineering is updated.
2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, no terms and definitions are listed in this document.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
ISO Online browsing platform: available at https://www.iso.org/obp
4 The Benefeu programme
4.1 Organization and tasks
On 1 May 2001, the Benefeu project started with a consortium managed by Warrington Fire Research
(UK) composed of CTICM (activity transferred to Efectis France), DIFT, IST, RUG and TNO (activity
transferred to Efectis Nederland).
The programme was financed by the European Commission (EC contract EDT/01/503480).
With a duration of one year, the programme aimed to identify the potential benefit of Fire Safety
Engineering in the European Union.
To satisfy this aim, this programme was organized in three key tasks:
Task A – Current regulations in member states;
Task B – State of the art in FSE;
Task C – Possible initiatives and cost benefit analysis.
The final report [1] dated 19 July 2002 was presented to the European Commission.
4.2 Task A – Current regulations in member states
In order to collect information from the 15 member states of the European Union plus three countries
that signed conventions (Switzerland, Norway and Iceland), a questionnaire [2] was prepared and
produced by the consortium.
It was sent to the regulators of the member states and to FSE users with responses collected by the
Consortium.
A global overview of the European Union situation from these 18 countries was drawn. The main topics
were:
fire regulation;
enforcement of regulations;
societal goals;
functional/performance requirements;
technical details in regulations;
alternative approval system or derogation;
changes to regulation;
no regulatory obligation;
cost-benefit analysis;
fire safety engineering;
education and training in FSE; and
other points.
In addition, fire experts or regulators from non-European countries (New Zealand, Australia, USA, Brazil,
Singapore, Canada, Japan, and Hong Kong) completed the questionnaire.
The consortium concludes that “the distribution of the answers is generally very similar to the
distribution in Europe, but the following main differences are noticed:
Within fire safety regulations, the goal of business and social activity protection is covered by 30 %
of the non-European countries, instead of about 10 % in Europe.
Concerning the type of requirements, most of the non-European countries have prescriptive or
deemed to satisfy requirements, but not both as is observed in Europe.
Concerning the knowledge of fire safety engineering use in the different subsystems, contrary to
Europe where most of the countries consider that SS2 (66 %), SS3 (90 %) and SS4 (70 %) need little
work or are mature, 50 % of non-European countries consider that they need much work.
4.3 Task B – State-of-the-art FSE
The state of art of FSE was a worldwide overview including development, standardization and
regulations.
The main conclusion from this state-of-the-art review performed in 2001-2002 was:
need for performance-based code coordination to avoid barriers to services in Europe;
huge progress on implementation tools was made from 1990, nevertheless “operational and
unambiguous standards” are needed to have a common way to assess the safety level
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