Second Conference on Firesafety Design in the 21st Century

美国在人均火灾损失方面领先于其他工业化国家。火灾每年给美国经济造成1280亿美元的损失，此外还有数千人伤亡。其中，超过200亿美元用于新建筑的防火功能。在过去的三十年里，研究人员已经开发出了很有前途的新方法来设计建筑物的消防安全。有充分的证据表明，这些新方法可以在各种建筑中产生更有效的防火形式，从而产生巨大的好处。不幸的是，这些新的研究结果很少被设计师或监管机构用于日常工作。第二届21世纪消防安全设计会议的目的，是根据上次会议以来的经验，回顾上次会议的成果；检讨已确定的策略，以塑造应用消防研究成果和设计实践的未来；就今后的变化提出建议，并广泛传播会议的结果。与会者将包括具有代表先进消防工程设计和监管实践所涉及或影响的各个方面的观点的参与者。

The United States leads other industrialized nations in per capita fire losses. Fires cost the American economy on the order of $128 billion per year, in addition to thousands of human casualties. Of this amount, more than $20 billion is spent on fire protection features for new buildings. Over the past thirty years, researchers have developed promising new methods for designing fire safety in buildings. And there is ample evidence these new approaches stand to yield vast benefits in the form of more con-effective fire protection in buildings of all kinds. Unfortunately, few of these new research results are being used on a day-to-day basis by designers or regulatory authorities. The purpose of this Second Conference on Fire Safety Design in the 21st Century is to review the results of the last conference in the light of experience that has transpired since that time; to review identified strategies for shaping the future of applied fire research results and design practices; to make recommendations for future change and to widely disseminate the results of the conference. Conference attendees will include participants having perspectives representing all facets which are involved in or affected by advanced fire protection engineering design and regulatory practices.