Nordic Residential Fire Sprinkler Guideline

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Nordic Residential Fire Sprinkler Guideline
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Nordic Residential Fire Sprinkler Guideline

• An increased interest in the Nordic countries
  for residential sprinklersystems
• since 2005/2006,
• Swedish/Norwegian initiative due to market
  pressure to upgrade/revise the
• existing recommendations for residential
  sprinklers,
• First meeting in Copenhagen in April 2007,
• Working Group 1, Design, Installation and
  Maintenance,
• Working Group 2, Guidelines to performance
  based fire engineering
• following installation of Residential
  sprinklers.

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Nordic Residential Fire Sprinkler Guideline

• Working Group 1, Design, Installation and
  Maintenance
• Denmark - Finn Massesson, DBI
• - Henrik Bygberg, DBI
• - Jens Erik Lauritzen, Tyco FIS
• Island - Gudmundur Gunnarsson,
  Brunamalastofnun
• - Astvaldur Eiriksson, Brunamalastofnun
• Norway - Tore Aarnes, If Forsikring
• - Per Arne Lindvik, Brannteknisk forening
• - John- Erik Holmli, Brannteknisk forening
• Sweden - Gösta Holmstedt, Sprinklerfremjandet
• - Jens Hjort, Svenska Brandskyddsforeningen
• - Martin Svensson, VVS företagen
• EFSN - Nick Groos, liason from European Fire
  Sprinkler Network

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Nordic Residential Fire Sprinkler Guideline

• Working Group 1, Design, Installation and
  Maintenance
• Final proposal to new guidelines ready latest
  October 2008
• The new guiedlines covers ALL types of
  buildings private homes, care instititions,
  hotels/motels, student housing etc.
• The objective with the guidelines is to get
  them accepted in each country by the
  standardisation bodies.

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Nordic Residential Fire Sprinkler Guideline