Haukur Ingason, chair, SP, Sweden
Professor Haukur Ingason has over twenty years of international experience in fire safety research and engineering. He has been involved in large scale and model scale studies of fire and smoke spread in tunnels since 1992. He was the initiator and project leader of the Runehamar tests 2003. Haukur gives PhD courses and supervises in fire safety in underground facilities at Mälardalens University.
Anders Lönnermark, SP, Sweden
Dr Anders Lönnermark is a senior research scientist at the Department of Fire Technology at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, where he has been employed since 1995. Lönnermark has a long experience of performing fire tests, both in model-scale and in full scale. In 2003 Lönnermark was responsible for the performance of the large-scale tests in the Runehamar tunnel. In 2005 he got his PhD degree from Lund University and the title of the thesis was “On the Characteristics of Fires in Tunnels”.
Jack Mawhinney, Hughes Associates, Inc., USA
Jack Mawhinney joined Hughes Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland as a fire protection research engineer in 1996. From 1984 to 1995 he worked as a Research Officer at the Canadian Institute for Research in Construction in Ottawa, Canada. He is past chair of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 750, Standard on Water Mist Fire Protection Systems, and author of chapters on water mist systems in the NFPA and SFPE handbooks. Mr. Mawhinney has extensive experience in full-scale fire testing, including evaluations of the performance of water mist systems in tunnels involving large fires in automobiles and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). He has provided scientific review and analysis of fire tests conducted at tunnel research facilities in Switzerland, Spain, Norway and England. He has applied CFD modeling to study the impact of active fire protection systems on very large HGV fires in tunnels.
Ricky Carvel, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Ricky Carvel is assistant director of the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is also editor of ‘The Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety’ (Thomas Telford, London, 2005). He has been researching tunnel fire phenomena since 1998 and has been a regular speaker at tunnel safety conferences since 1999. His work has highlighted the influence that tunnel ventilation systems and tunnel geometry can have on the burning behaviour of various different types of fires in tunnels. In 2004 he was awarded a PhD from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland) for his thesis “Fire Size in Tunnels”. He currently provides fire safety engineering consultancy services to a number of different companies, including Jacobs UK Ltd and some UK tunnel operators, primarily with regards to fire safety in tunnels. Further details on www.rickycarvel.info
Arnold Dix, Arnold Dix Associates, Australia
Professor Dix is recognized as the world’s pre-eminent independent technical/legal tunnel risk expert adviser. He combines dual qualifications in Law and Science, Professorships in Engineering and Medicine with appointments to PIARC, NFPA, ITA and ITIG. He commands a leadership role on approaches to tunnel operational safety, contractual, political and insurance issues for complex tunnel issues. When independent advice is required and the choices are unclear - Dix has the reputation for providing authorative, strong, independent and robust advice.
Alfred Haack, STUVA, Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfred Haack was Executive Board Member of STUVA – Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities, Cologne, Germany. He studied civil engineering at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Berlin and obtained his PHD degree at the Technical University of Hannover for research on “Fire Protection during Tunnelling” in 1971. He has been working with STUVA for more than 40 years in widely varying fields of tunnelling and micro tunnelling such as drainage methods, waterproofing techniques, various lining systems, occupational health and safety, fire prevention and fire fighting. Between 1995 and 2004 he was member of the Executive Council of ITA – International Tunnelling Association, Lausanne (CH), between 1998 and 2001 ITA’s President.
Rickard Forsén, FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
Rickard Forsén has a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, from Lund Institute of Technology (1976). He began working at Swedish National Defence Research Establishment (FOA) in 1983 studying weapons effects such as blast and fragments loading and damage to buildings and occupants after attacks with conventional weapons. He has continued to also cover studies of protective structures in his roll as Head of Buildings and Fortifications department at FOA (Protection and Materials department after reorganisation 1998) between 1994 and 1999. Since 2003 he is Engineering Director at FOI (former FOA) with specialties blast and fragment loadings from conventional weapons and improvised explosive devices in acts of sabotage or terrorism, building damage assessment, protective structures and measures to protect buildings and occupants after attacks, risk analysis for explosive storage and dangerous goods transport and storage. He is an author of more than 100 scientific and user reports, customer reports, memos and articles.
Jens Stiegel, Frankfurt Fire Brigade, Germany
Jens Stiegel, born in 1973 is an assistant chief with the Fire Department of the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He's actually responsible for the department of education and training, which consists of the fire academy, the bureau of training, the EMS academy and the Fire Department’s driving school. He graduated as a civil engineer with focus on construction and fire protection in 2000 from University of Darmstadt and worked for two years as an engineer for fire prevention. In 2002 he joined the State Fire Academy of Northrhine Westfalia and started his training period to become a chief fire officer. He graduated in 2004 and became chief of education and training at the Fire Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
Håkan Frantzich, Lund University, Sweden
Dr Håkan Frantzich is a Senior lecturer at the department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety at Lund University. His main area of expertise is related to people safety during evacuation in fires. He has a great experience in performing evacuation experiments for research purposes and linking fire human behaviour and movement of people to evacuation modelling. Frantzich has also been involved in the development of design procedures for linking risk assessment and fire safety design. He has contributed to the spread of fire related knowledge as an author of different publications e.g. design guides, building codes, a chapter on risk assessment in the next SFPE handbook and several journal and conference papers.
Kathleen H. Almand
Kathleen Almand is the Executive Director of the Fire Protection Research Foundation, an affiliate of the National Fire Protection Association. She holds a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Maryland and a Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Prior to joining FPRF in 2004, Kathleen was the Executive Director of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and held research and management positions with the Civil Engineering Research Foundation, the American Iron and Steel Institute, and the National Academy of Sciences.