Fire Technology - Special Issue: Fire Safety & Sustainability: Challenges & Opportunities
Guest Editors
Prof. Margaret McNamee, Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Brian Meacham, Meacham Associates, USA
Dr. Wojciech Węgrzyński, Building Research Institute, Poland
Dr. Hideki Yoshioka, Building Research Institute, Japan
Summary and scope
Sustainability in the built environment has become a significant global policy objective, facilitating in recent years energy performance rating schemes and regulations, highly insulated and energy efficient buildings, integration of alternative energy generation and storage technologies, reduction in new material use and embodied carbon, and a focus on whole of life considerations, amongst other outcomes. While fire safety remains a critical concern for the built environment, it is not clear that sustainability and fire safety objectives are always considered holistically. Sustainability as a force promoting novel solutions to modern problems requires a holistic approach that includes fire safety. Without it, new unmet challenges and fire risks may be unwittingly introduced.
Integrating sustainability and fire safety objectives into the design of the built environment is a global effort that requires scientific, engineering, social, and economic considerations.
This Special Issue is devoted to scientific studies, case studies and related research on design and analysis frameworks, tools and methods that advance the aims of creating a sustainable and fire resilient built environment.
The following topics are of particular interest:
• Fire risk / hazards of emerging / novel building-integrated energy production, storage and distribution systems
• Fire performance of building insulation materials / systems and sustainable / renewable / recycled construction materials
• Sustainability performance of fire-retarded materials / products
• Sustainable and fire resilient materials and products
• Advancements in fire life cycle analyses / novel emission factors
• Environmental impacts of fire & environmental impact mitigation
• Holistic design approaches for sustainability and fire resilience • Computational analysis for sustainable and fire resilient design
• New technologies supporting performance-based approaches
Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https://www.springer.com/journal/10694/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type “SI – Safety and Sustainability".
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least two independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.