Support to policies and standards for the construction ecosystem
In 2023, the JRC Technical Report “The status and needs for implementation of Fire Safety Engineering approach in Europe” , presented the results of a wide survey, which demonstrated that a safer and more fire-resilient built environment strongly depended on the availability of 1) education and training in performance-based design with fire safety engineering, to support the competency of professionals, reviewers and officers involved in FSE practice, and their proper qualification framework; 2) standards for performance-based fire design needed by professionals who undertake fire design tasks, and possibly be liable for building fire design.
In this report, the GROW-JRC survey data are further analysed for deeper understanding of the FSE-related education availability and needs, complemented by a detailed mapping of university education and training in EU/EFTA countries, United Kingdom and Serbia. This is compared to the status of qualification frameworks for FSE regulatory reviewers and practitioners, and to the role of the fire engineer in specifying the main parameters of building design projects and in undertaking liability for fire design. This allows for detailed considerations on the level of implementation of the fire safety engineering approach in the countries that currently allow for its application. Then, new survey data allow to compare the views and responses of European regulators to those of building fire design professionals, enlightening similarities and differences in the views. Finally, an updated picture of the ongoing ISO and CEN standardisation work in the field is provided and discussed, showing the response of standardization bodies to the needs expressed by the FSE communities of regulators and practitioners.
SCIARRETTA Francesca;
ATHANASOPOULOU Adamantia;
POLO LOPEZ Cristina Silvia;
TSIONIS Georgios;
DEBROUWERE Brecht;
JÖNSSON Jimmy;
JOYEUX Daniel;
KOTSOVINOS Panagiotis;
MANZELLO Samuel L.;
MERCI Bart;
NOGAL-MACHO Maria;
OKWARA Franklyn;
POULSEN Annemarie;
RIOS Oriol;
SAMARAS Panagiotis;
TONDINI Nicola;
VAN HEES Patrick;
WĘGRZYŃSKI Wojciech;
SCIARRETTA Francesca;
ATHANASOPOULOU Adamantia;
TSIONIS Georgios;
2025-11-05
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC143347
978-92-68-33227-6 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 40521,
OP KJ-01-25-553-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC143347,
10.2760/1335237 (online),
