IFAB Webi­nar: ESS Fire pro­tec­tion – Fire test results and design guid­ance Speak­er: Max Lakko­nen Top­ics: – Dif­fer­ent fire­fight­ing tech­nolo­gies (fire test results – nitro­gen, aerosol, water mist), – Chal­lenges and pos­si­bil­i­ties with detec­tion tech­nolo­gies, – Design guid­ance / White-paper on sta­tion­ary ESS pro­tec­tion (SUVEREN Stor­age project), – Ques­tions & Answers Inter­est­ed? Reg­is­ter here:  Webi­nar … Con­tin­ue read­ing Sign up for our Webi­nar on ESS-Fire pro­tec­tion, 22nd March 2023 at 03.00 pm !

posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on Sign up for our Webi­nar on ESS-Fire pro­tec­tion, 22nd March 2023 at 03.00 pm !

IFAB was con­tract­ed to car­ry out fire tests for the pro­tec­tion of a test cells with Li-ion-bat­ter­ies for elec­tric vehi­cles to approve a high-pres­­sure water mist sys­tem.

posted on Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 by IFAB Posted in News Comments Off on Fire tests to eval­u­ate pro­tec­tion of tests cells with Li-ion-bat­ter­ies for elec­tric vehi­cles

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

The mem­bers of the Inter­na­tion­al Water Mist Asso­ci­a­tion (IWMA) have dis­cussed and decid­ed: The 21st Inter­na­tion­al Water Mist Con­fer­ence will take place in Madrid, Spain. The con­fer­ence dates will be 9th and 10th Novem­ber 2022. The con­fer­ence venue will be the Elba Madrid Alcalá Hotel. On 1st July, the con­fer­ence pro­gramme will be pub­lished. Again, … Con­tin­ue read­ing IFAB is once again hon­orary spon­sor of the water mist con­fer­ence IWMC!

posted on Thursday, June 30th, 2022 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on IFAB is once again hon­orary spon­sor of the water mist con­fer­ence IWMC!

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

posted on Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on Fire detec­tion sys­tem val­i­dat­ed through hot smoke tests car­ried out in a school-build­ing in Wet­zlar

IFAB com­plet­ed free burn fire tests of a com­plete rail vehi­cle as a base to val­i­date numer­i­cal sim­u­la­tion meth­ods. IFAB’s respon­si­bil­i­ty was to devel­op the test­ing method with the mea­sure­ment sys­tem, car­ry out all mea­sure­ments, HRR cal­cu­la­tions (by dif­fer­ent meth­ods) and report­ing of the test results.

posted on Thursday, January 27th, 2022 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on Free burn fire tests of a rail vehi­cle to val­i­date numer­i­cal sim­u­la­tion meth­ods

The Inter­na­tion­al Water Mist Asso­ci­a­tion (IWMA) has announced that IWMC 2021 (the 20th Inter­na­tion­al Water Mist Con­fer­ence 2021) will take place on 27th and 28th Octo­ber 2021. The venue will be War­saw, Poland, the con­fer­ence will be held in the Regent War­saw Hotel. As in the pre­vi­ous years, IFAB will be an hon­orary spon­sor of … Con­tin­ue read­ing IFAB is hon­orary spon­sor of the 20th IWMC in War­saw in Octo­ber 2021

posted on Monday, September 13th, 2021 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on IFAB is hon­orary spon­sor of the 20th IWMC in War­saw in Octo­ber 2021

IFAB was con­tract­ed by the Berlin pub­lic trans­port sys­tem (BVG) to cre­ate a design fire curve for the metro vehi­cle types H and HK (large and small pro­file). This devel­oped curve is used as a design fire curve for the smoke and evac­u­a­tion sim­u­la­tions in all BVG sta­tions in the future. The design fire curve … Con­tin­ue read­ing Design fire curves for BVG, Berlin

posted on Monday, May 31st, 2021 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on Design fire curves for BVG, Berlin

IFAB car­ried out a train­ing for a client in Switzer­land with the fol­low­ing top­ic: NFPA 130:2020 (Stan­dard for Fixed Guide­way Tran­sit and Pas­sen­ger Rail Sys­tems).

posted on Monday, March 15th, 2021 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on NFPA 130:2020 train­ing for a Swiss client

IFAB was re-accred­it­ed accord­ing to the revised ISO/IEC 17025:2018-03 for the proof of the effec­tive­ness of water-based fire fight­ing sys­tems by fire tests for rolling stock (rail vehi­cles), indus­tri­al plants, pub­lic places, store rooms, engine and machin­ery spaces, tun­nel- and trans­port infra­struc­ture sys­tems as well as high-volt­age bat­ter­ies and the exper­i­men­tal deter­mi­na­tion of design fire … Con­tin­ue read­ing IFAB re-accred­it­ed to revised ISO/IEC 17025:2018-03!

posted on Friday, November 13th, 2020 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on IFAB re-accred­it­ed to revised ISO/IEC 17025:2018-03!

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 was autho­rised by the BVG to gen­er­ate fire safe­ty con­cepts of var­i­ous under­ground sta­tions in Berlin. This also includes a con­duc­tion of exten­sive CFD sim­u­la­tions to study the effi­cien­cy of smoke extract­ing and evac­u­a­tion con­di­tions.

posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 by Schmidt Posted in News Comments Off on FIRE SAFETY CONCEPTS FOR UNDERGROUND STATIONS IN BERLIN