FERMI ltd move to new premises!

Thursday, November 3rd 2011

Our New Address: 4 Victoria St, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3JB

FERMI & UKTFA full scale fire tests

Monday, July 25th 2011

FERMI is working with the UKTFA to develop new full scale fire tests to provide designers with timber frame systems for use on constricted construction sites. The tests will validate earlier work which identified the benefits of timber treatments, insulation and modular timber frame systems. It will also provide further information for the FERMI RT (copyright) model and assist in validating the guidance developed by FERMI & UK TFA on fire spread risk reduction.

FERMI complete Evacuation Modelling Trials

Monday, July 25th 2011

FERMI have recently developed a computer evacuation model for a major UK shopping centre and then held a real time evacuation trial to test and validate modelling assumptions. FERMI engineers acted as observers and 'shoppers' in order to understand the procedures and experience of shopping centre users and fire marshals. The information has been added to the model which now produces well-validated estimates of evacuation time and procedures. The exercise also provided invaluable information to the centre management.

Speakers and Papers at the Nice Conference

Wednesday, January 5th 2011

We are very excited by the list of speakers and papers being presented at the Tunnel Safety Forum 2011 - a small sample: 7/7 Incidents & Operational Developments - London Fire Brigade Alpine Tunnel Fires & their effects on Legislation & Design - Didier Lacroix, CETU Eurotunnel New Infrastructure & Rolling Stock Passenger Train Design Fires - Clare Hebden & Alex Cunningham, AECOM New Single-bore Road Tunnel Projects - Paul Scott, FERMI Ltd Water Mist in Tunnels: Unanswered Questions - Dr Ricky Carvel, Edinburgh University Tunnel Fire Dynamics and Testing - Professor David Charters, BRE Global The New Pajares Railway Link - Rodriguez, Botella, Arrastia, Gomez-Rey, ADIF Tenerife 'Tren del Sur' high speed line - Andres Munoz Del Dios, Metropolitana de Tenerife SA