IFAB car­ried out fire tests to approve an aerosol extin­guish­ing sys­tem in cab­i­nets of a rail car accord­ing to EN 50553.

posted on Saturday, November 5th, 2022 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Aerosol approval tests for a rail car accord­ing to EN50553

IFAB car­ried out fire tests for the pro­tec­tion of ener­gy stor­age con­tain­ers with Li-ion-bat­ter­ies

posted on Thursday, October 20th, 2022 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Fire tests with ener­gy stor­age con­tain­ers – Li-ion-bat­ter­ies

IFAB was tasked to devel­op a fire safe­ty con­cept for the con­ver­sion of a build­ing and for a new build­ing to dis­man­tle, process and recy­cle Li-Ion Bat­ter­ies (Nick­el­hütte Aue).

posted on Friday, September 23rd, 2022 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Devel­op­ing a fire safe­ty con­cept for a lead­ing com­pa­ny in bat­tery recy­cling

IFAB has devel­oped a fire safe­ty con­cept for a buil­dung with a rec­ti­fi­er plant of the pub­lic trans­port com­pa­ny of Berlin (BVG) and start­ed to con­duct eval­u­a­tion sim­u­la­tion for the BVG.

posted on Monday, August 8th, 2022 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Fire safe­ty con­cept for a rec­ti­fi­er plant of BVG (Berlin pub­lic trans­porta­tion com­pa­ny)

IFAB was con­tract­ed for the fire safe­ty con­cept and smoke sim­u­la­tions (CFD) for Berlin Alexan­der­platz (BVG). The unique under­ground sta­tion is over 100 years old and one of the most com­plex pub­lic trans­porta­tion hubs in Berlin. The work was car­ried out 2021-2022.

posted on Monday, August 8th, 2022 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Fire Safe­ty con­cept and smoke sim­u­la­tions for Berlin under­ground sta­tion Alexan­der­platz (BVG)

IFAB com­plet­ed review­ing a fire safe­ty plant con­cept for a nuclear pow­er plant.

posted on Monday, July 25th, 2022 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Fire safe­ty plant con­cept review for an NPP

IFAB car­ried out fire tests in dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions of of bicy­cles with Li-ion bat­ter­ies to deter­mine a fire design curve (heat release rate, HHR), fire spread and influ­ence of a water mist sys­tem

posted on Sunday, July 10th, 2022 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Fire tests with E-bikes

In a new build­ing of the Goethe-Schule in Wet­zlar IFAB has car­ried out hot smoke tests to val­i­date the flaw­less func­tion­al­i­ty of the installed fire detec­tion sys­tem.  The tests became nec­es­sary because some of the smoke detec­tors installed in the ceil­ing were par­tial­ly cov­ered by new­ly sus­pend­ed ceil­ings.

posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Hot Smoke tests in a school in Wet­zlar

IFAB has car­ried out for and togeth­er with N2 Glob­al a series of fire tests using var­i­ous N2 Glob­al fire extin­guish­ing sys­tems. Nitro­gen was used as the extin­guish­ing agent. The test sce­nar­ios were devel­oped and imple­ment­ed in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with N2 Glob­al.

posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2020 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Fire tests for N2 Glob­al

IFAB has car­ried out fire tests for one of the lead­ing water mist man­u­fac­tur­ers accord­ing to ARGE part II:2018 and UNI 11565:2016. High pres­sure water mist sys­tems were test­ed in order to approve its effi­cien­cy in pas­sen­ger areas for rolling stock. IFAB is specif­i­cal­ly accred­it­ed for the appli­ca­tion of such guide­lines in fire tests.

posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Fire tests accord­ing to ARGE part II:2018 und UNI 11565:2016

IFAB car­ried out a sem­i­nar about the appli­ca­tion of the norm EN45545 reg­u­la­tions for a com­pa­ny spe­cial­ized on plas­tics rail­way vehi­cles.

posted on Monday, October 15th, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Sem­i­nar accord­ing to EN45545

IFAB devel­oped a fire extin­guish­ing con­cept for a grain stor­age in Hobrechts­felde near Berlin that func­tions as an exhi­bi­tion room and a tech­ni­cal muse­um.

posted on Friday, September 21st, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Devel­op­ment of a fire extin­guish­ing con­cept for a grain stor­age

IFAB has extend­ed its ser­vices to the auto­mo­bile indus­try by being able to car­ry out fire resis­tance tests of car bat­ter­ies accord­ing to: • GB/T 31467.3, Lithi­um-ion trac­tion bat­tery pack and sys­tem for elec­tric vehi­cles – Part 3: Safe­ty require­ments and test meth­ods • E/ECE/324/Rev.2/Add.99/Rev.2, Annex 8E, Fire Resis­tance.

posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Car bat­tery fire resis­tance ser­vices from IFAB

IFAB suc­cess­ful­ly car­ried out smoke tests accord­ing to ARGE – Part 1. The test­ed new funic­u­lar vehi­cles are oper­at­ing inside a tun­nel to moun­tain Carmelit (in oper­a­tion since 1959).

posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Smoke tests (ARGE Stan­dard) – Haifa, Israel

Our web­page was expand­ed in order to meet the require­ments of the GDPR. Many new pic­tures can be found in var­i­ous sub­cat­e­gories. Fur­ther­more, the ref­er­ences in the down­load sec­tion were updat­ed.

posted on Thursday, July 26th, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Updates to our web­site

IFAB will car­ry out large scale fire tests with lithi­um-ion bat­ter­ies as a con­trac­tor in the SUVEREN research project (Safe­ty of City Under­ground Struc­tures due to the use of New Ener­gy Car­ri­ers). More infor­ma­tion about SUVEREN can be found on the web­site www.suveren-nec.info/.

posted on Monday, June 25th, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on IFAB is part of the SUVEREN research project

Dear vis­i­tor, our web­site is cur­rent­ly being updat­ed and revised. We thank you for your under­stand­ing. Your IFAB-Team

posted on Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Update and revi­sion of our web­site

IFAB car­ried out a sem­i­nar about the appli­ca­tion of the norm NFPA 130 reg­u­la­tions for a com­pa­ny spe­cial­ized in open­ing but­tons for road and rail­way vehi­cles.

posted on Monday, February 19th, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Sem­i­nar regard­ing NFPA130 for a major sup­pli­er to the rail­way indus­try

posted on Monday, February 5th, 2018 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on IFAB was offi­cial­ly nom­i­nat­ed to par­tic­i­pate in the ARGE-Guide­line com­mit­tee for rolling stock.