Special Emergency Challenges

• Use the Fire Brigade Intervention Model (FBIM) or similar models to systematically quantify the relevant times (detection, alarm, driving, attack) and response resources in a fire scenario.
• Calculate the required extinguishing capacity (water volume and flow) as a function of the design fire’s maximum effect and growth rate.
• Integrate and implement the emergency response legal requirements for dimensioning the rescue response.
• Explain the interaction between fixed technical installations in construction and the efforts of the “mobile” rescue service.
• Assess the relevance of and use international standards (e.g. NFPA, SFPE) as a basis for tactical dimensioning.
• Conduct a quantitative risk analysis of high-rise buildings and complex buildings to dimension the necessary emergency response capacity and response strategy.
• Analyze the efforts and extinguishing strategy for fires in Lithium-Ion battery energy storage systems (BESS), including the risk of thermal runaway and the need for specialized equipment.
• Design response capacity and concept that are in accordance with the requirements of the emergency legislation’s Technical Regulations for Flammable Liquids and Gases in Fires in Industrial Plants and Large Warehouses.
• Assess fire spread risks in modern wooden buildings and determine the critical time for emergency response intervention.
• Determine tactical response times and extinguishing methods in deep and complex response routes (e.g. parking garages or industrial buildings) with a focus on effective extinguishing and the safety of the response crew.
• Identify and analyze risks and emergency requirements during the construction phase, especially with alternative construction methods and materials.
• Assess the tactical consequences that arise in combined systems (e.g. solar cells on a roof, interconnected with BESS on a high-rise building) in relation to the capacity of the emergency services.

The course introduces the basic emergency and response design and challenges within modern technology, selected building materials, complex buildings, etc. The course focuses on special emergency challenges. The course includes, among other things, risk analysis in building and emergency legislation, including failure scenarios. It also includes learning about extinguishing capacity for special (complex) emergency responses. Environmental chemistry and methodology for analyzing flammable industrial companies are also included in the course. Special challenges in wooden construction, including HRR, cavity and spread are also part of the course. The course includes learning about response routes in deep, complex buildings such as underground parking lots and response routes in connection with external stairs (including safety). The course also includes response tactics for special complex buildings and installations, including high-rise buildings, BESS systems, solar cells and Power-to-x. Finally, it includes learning about alternative building materials and construction methods, robotization (in parking garages) and larger flammable storage (wood pellets, gas storage, recycling storage).

Teaching at DTU and distance teaching with supervising, and exercises/assignments

Minimum: 10, Maximum: 35.

Please be aware that this course has a minimum requirement for the number of participants needed, in order for it to be held. If these requirements are not met, then the course will not be held. Furthermore, there is a limited number of seats available. If there are too many applicants, a pool will be created for the remainder of the qualified applicants, and they will be selected at random. You will be informed 8 days before the start of the course, whether you have been allocated a spot.