The country dossier "Fire Protection in China" provides manufacturers of fire protection products, planners, real estate investors, trade associations and foreign trade chambers with specific basic information on preventive fire protection in China.

The owner invests, the designer designs, the tester tests, the authorities approve and the contractor builds – and the user? As the last participant in the construction value added chain, the user does not always use everything as intended, planned and constructed. This article highlights some of the problems and discusses user concerns that are often not fully taken into account.

Automatic doors generally fulfil various functions in building construction. This article will focus on how they can be controlled and monitored centrally and what possibilities are offered by modern building automation that incorporates all different disciplines.

Digitalisation – with its multitude of implications – represents one of the most radical changes in the cultural history of humankind. There is hardly any area of life that it does not impact. Profound and at the same time rapid changes are taking place in many economic sectors. What developments stand out in the area of preventive fire protection? And what opportunities and risks do they provide for planners, manufacturers and installers?

Here you can find a list of events on preventive fire protection in 2019 and 2020.

The Booklet "Fire Protection in Germany- Planning, Approval, Rules and Regulation" informs about the basics of the German fire protection market. The booklet is available here as a free PDF download.

Air sampling smoke detectors disappear into the ‘white skin’ and form part of the comprehensive fire protection concept at the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg. 

The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) planned by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is set to become the largest telescope in the world from 2024. The designers faced new challenges due to the lack of fire defences in the Atacama Desert (Chile). This article focuses on evacuation calculations, emergency routes and flow behaviour.

People often underestimate the risks posed by smoke. They do not evacuate rooms or locations filled with heavy smoke or do not do so with the required speed, or they even consciously choose to go through the smoke. This article explains why many people behave in this manner.