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Sustainable buildings advisory panel Today, we face environmental ambitions that require changing our lifestyles and the way we build. The construction sector has adapted to these new end user and societal needs by starting to build more sustainably. New green materials and technologies have been introduced to improve our buildings’ energy efficiency and to decrease their impact on the environment. Yet sometimes the fire risks associated with these new ways are not properly accounted for. In a recent podcast on how to foster a sustainable future through green buildings3
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Fanny Guay, chair of the advisory panel, pointed out: ‘It is really important to be able to make the link between fire safety and sustainability; it’s not obvious for everyone’. Amid the EU’s ambitious Green Deal, the panel aims to open up the debate around the sustainability of buildings and highlight the importance of their fire resilience as part of the sustainable building stock. Members will develop a common definition of fire resilience, and work on a recommendations document to include fire resilience in sustainable building policies and initiatives. One of the ways envisaged to open the discussion is the fire resilience podcast3
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invites a variety of stakeholders to discuss the theme. Ms Guay commented that members can derive benefit from excellent input on the work being done, adding: ‘It is really important that we get out there so we can improve the level of fire resilience for our buildings and our cities in general’. Highlighting the value of the Community and its panels, she said:
‘The important thing is to have people participate and that is why we are having this type of platform and panels on different topics’. As the Community evolves, its early momentum has been sustained by the steady rise in members. FSEU’s public affairs manager Sarah Debbiche Krichen stated: ‘We are delighted to see that the European Fire Safety Community is taking shape and becoming something of real value, providing much needed insights into where and how fire safety in buildings can be improved.’
Jéromine Andolfatto is EU public affairs executive at Fire Safe Europe. For more information, view page 3
To find out more, visit
eufiresafety.community References
1. ‘Project to finalise the European approach to assess the fire performance of facades kicks off’, European Fire Safety Community, https://
eufiresafety.community/news/269620
2. ‘Finalisation of the European approach to assess the fire performance of facades’, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, EC,
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/ content/finalisation-european-approach- assess-fire-performance-facades_en
3. ‘Fire resilience: a solution to the green buildings debate: Episode 1 – How to foster a sustainable future through green buildings?’, FSEU,
https://firesafeeurope.eu/podcast- how-foster-sustainable-future-through- green-buildings/
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