Fire Protection and Safety in Tunnels 2019

• Key facets of the HS2 network
• Understanding the regulative framework fire railway fire safety in the UK
• Ensuring fire and rescue service approvals for UK transport infrastructure and exploring fire and rescue services principles
• Developing a consultation framework to ensure collaboration between different stakeholders
• Managing and delivering QDRs
• Key fire safety features on HS2: highlighting resistant materials used and integrated passive systems
• Developing a combined ventilation and intervention strategy
• Collaborating to develop ventilation and shaft designs

• Emergency Management: highlighting the importance for designers to work closely with tunnel owners and fire brigades
• Risk Assessment: a compelling design driver
• Following-up on 2018’s presentation: Highlighting the reason behind the 300m distance between the cross passages in Brenner Base Tunnel
• Exploring what resistant materials have been integrated at the stage of construction to lower risk of fire

• Enabling the current London Underground business model for train service delivery to be transformed to a more flexible, responsive and customer focused model
• Navigating ways on achieving a step change in railway reliability and delivering greater line capacity
• Identifying how to select the appropriate technologies and solutions which enable higher levels of automation
• Improve customer experience of deep tube services by introducing saloon air-conditioning on deep tube trains and continuous management of rising tunnel temperatures

Delegates will have the opportunity to visit the EBR/ØVK worksite and explore the latest development in this tunnel build. The excavation site is in a built up residential area and attendees to observe this launch site and learn more about the project

• Highlighting the features of the Cityringen Metro line in operation
• Uncovering fire safety requirements to understand how to better construct your underground infrastructure against fire
• Exploring the key fire related systems design implemented in the new line
• Unveiling implemented compliance and innovation: compartmentation, fire alarm and firefighting services

The perfect chance to network and meet your peers. In this session, delegates will all be assigned a number and tasked to find 3 other numbers in the room, ask them their name and top challenge and reason for attending the conference.

• Reviewing available technologies for automatic incident detection and which ones are the most adapted to your tunnel: from sensors to movement detection
• Exploring how to use predetermined and archived accident to respond quickly to an incident
• Highlighting challenges related to the identification of the smoke source and how to take this into account in automatic controls
• Exploring the role of system integrators to ensure your technology in interoperable and ready to use
• Questioning how to handle water mist and ventilation when a fire is detected automatically to quickly protect your passengers and your infrastructure

• Basics of Aero-X extinguishing systems
• Easy Maintenance by Heavy Duty Connection
• Extinguishing in Extreme Fire Conditions

• Early Fire detection
• Recent Projects
• Current ITS-series Dual
• Next generation dual camera
• Q&A

• Highlighting available technologies to measure gas release and prevent any explosion
• Uncovering innovation in movement detection technology to efficiently locate passengers and workers
• Discovering special guidelines developed for the Brenner Base tunnel to reinforce fire safety and protection, and take action from their implementation

• Evaluating methods in metro infrastructures, mines and covered bus depot
• Determining ways order to improve security of workers and rescue forces penetrating those areas
• Whilst considering GPS signals still emitted in tunnels and stations

• Provide an overview of London’s strategic road network and London’s road tunnels
• Tools to manage traffic and tunnel safety
• Ongoing and future challenges

• Situational Awareness from inside a tunnel fire direct to where you need it most
• Critical information direct to the control room, fire command centre and mobile units
• Comprehensive information in one place – integration of multiple data sources
• Lights out – reliable technologies for emergency situations when visibility is zero in a tunnel

• Highlighting the importance of involving tunnel operators and infrastructures managers in the design phase
• Working alongside local fire brigades to ensure the design of the tunnel facilitates emergency intervention
• Reinforcing collaboration to cut cost on post-constructions works
• Exploring real case study of such processes to implement it for every project in the future

• Discovering how to ensure whether the source of smoke is mobile or stationary before ventilating
• Harnessing on cellphone technology to locate passengers within and better orientate ventilation
• Exploring how to use AI and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to better use ventilation
• Considering the average walking speed of passengers before starting the ventilation and water mist
• Connecting radar, cameras and sensors to better orientate the smoke in your tunnels

• Investing in cost efficient technologies to improve easily security in old tunnels such as lighting, signs and white painting to reflect light
• Discussing how to overcome interoperability challenges with in old tunnels: how to integrate new technology in your existing systems
• Exploring several examples of successful tunnel upgrading to build on successful experience in Europe
• Shedding lights on working closely with emergency services and fire brigades to be better prepared
• Looking at various resistant materials to easily implement in refurbished tunnels to lower risk of fire

In this insightful session, the speaker will present to the audience the technologies and strategies used in the mining industry to protect the workers from fire incident. From equipment to rescue room, from smoke detectors to survival kit, this session will cover all aspects of fire safety in mining, and will allow the audience to think outside the box to find cost effective solutions for their tunnels.

• Brief description of the Channel Tunnel safety features
• Outlining the response arrangements for terrorist incidents
• Describing the complexity of cross border considerations
• Sharing learning points from bi-national exercises

Interactive roundtable sessions offer a unique opportunity to come together with your peers to share best practice and develop solutions to critical challenges facing the industry as a whole. Hosted by industry experts and each focused on a single issue, roundtables are an exciting, interactive way to build your personal network and learn from the experience and expertise of others.

Each roundtable session lasts for 45 minutes, and delegates may attend up to 2 roundtables

RT 1 – Discussing strategies to improve communication and collaboration between tunnel and train operators

Available for Sponsorship

RT 2 – Exploring strategies to shape health and safety culture across different nations

Stephen Fowler, Head of Health and Safety UK, Eurotunnel

RT 3 – Discussion on safety in road tunnels and underground transportation facilities due to vehicles with alternative fuels

Maria Marton, Expert on Road Infrastructure and Tunnel Safety, Swedish Transport Agency

RT 4 – Roundtable Session Reserved for Event Sponsor

Available for Sponsorship

• Exploring the causes of fire and the situation within the tunnel to understand gravity of such incident
• Unveiling the recommendations from the AIBN to ensure road-users safety during maintenance work
• Disputing pros and cons of automatic and manual controls during maintenance work: what is the best control strategy to achieve work and road-users safety
• Investigating the evacuation process put in place and discovering recommendations from the AIBN to improve communication with road-users

• Statement: every tunnel is unique and procurement procedures do not stimulate knowledge
• The habits your organisation must learn to master systems integration
• Highlighting the challenges set by new conditions of work and the consequences on system integration
• Uncovering differences when integrating system in new tunnels and tunnels in refurbishment

• Understanding the critical situation of fire incident in in high demand underground metro  lines with 1.500 passengers per train with a frequency of 90 seconds
• Coordinating real time smoke control and evacuation operational strategies
• Exploring how to coordinate operational strategies with fire brigade intervention
• Highlighting how IT technologies are essential for the control of all the variables involved in the management of emergency situations in metros

• Transformer Fires – An Unnecessary Risk
• Fire Safety case study
• Installation Advantages

• Presentation  of the future cross-border Montcenis base tunnel between Italy and France
• Presentation of the aspects of railway safety and accident management
• Presentation of the smoke extraction systems and fire protection network to be activated in the event of an accident.

• Brief presentation of LFP
• Brief presentation of the line and the Tunnel
• How safety has been integrated in the design criteria
• Operations and safety conditions
• Crisis Management during railway accidents and external attacks

• Exploring the scope of available sensors measuring smoke, emissions or movements
• Harnessing on real-time communication and accurate data collected to ensure your tunnel is running smoothly and assess more accurately any dangerous situation
• Connecting your IoT technology to smart cars to improve communication with the drivers and tackle risks before they become danger
• Embracing technology connectivity within your tunnel to have a real-time control of your tunnel