This year’s (2007) FSE Design Awards take place alongside the Fire Industry Awards as part of International Fire Expo at the NEC in Birmingham. Projects small and large are eligible, so enter now and have a chance to be be acknowledged as among the best in fire safety design. There are three categories in the FSE Design Award and the deadline for entries is 9 March 2007.
If you have been involved in a fire safety project that you think deserves wider recognition – whether for a small premises or a larger one – you should enter the FSE Design Awards 2007.
The Awards will be presented at the glittering Fire Industry Awards dinner which will be held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel on the 22nd May.
The three categories in the FSE Design Awards are:
– Best fire safety solution for a residential premises
Entries for this award should indicate the problems which were found when the fire risk assessment was carried out on a ‘sleeping risk’ (e.g. hospitals; residential care homes; hotels; halls of residence; hostels; domestic premises) and the benefits gained by adopting a specific fire safety approach. Special attention will be paid to life safety aspects of the design.
– Best solution for small-to-medium sized commercial premises
This includes an engineered application or installation of active and/or passive fire protection measures. Entries for this award should specify the uniqueness of the design and/or installation of the active and/or passive fire protection measures which had to be adopted, to provide the fire safety protection required for a particular project.
– The fire safety engineering award (sponsored by Wagner UK)
Aimed at larger projects which demonstrate innovative fire safety engineering design principles. It recognises those who have applied fire safety engineering principles to meet the special needs of particular buildings. The importance lies in creating fire safety engineering solutions, rather than following prescriptive formulas, as they may not always provide the best or most economic solution. Judges will be looking for:
– Innovative design
– Practical application of fire engineering principles
– Benefits achieved by the fire safety engineering approach
– Uniqueness of the solution
How to enter
1. Carefully study the criteria for each category which you plan to enter.
2. Clearly indicate the category or categories you are entering then draft a statement of no more than 1500 words to set out your case. Avoid marketing/PR descriptions and focus on facts and results.
3. Collate any other supporting material such as graphs, technical drawings and data.
4. Include your name, company/project name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.
Entries to be submitted by 9 March 2007 to: [email protected] or by post to: FSE Editor (Design Awards), 7th Floor, Ludgate House, 245 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UY.
