In this presentation we will look at the fire safety challenges faced by custodial and secure mental health facilities today – and why water mist fire protection is being adopted in hundreds of facilities worldwide to address these challenges. We will cover life safety, operational benefits, testing and case studies and if time answer any questions that you may have.
Howard is the Group Engineering Manager at Fire Protection Technologies and has a wide skillset including watermist fire protection systems. Prior to arriving in Australia Howard was involved in writing the BS8489 and BS8458 watermist standards and once he arrived in Australia he co-wrote the AS4587-2020 watermist standard. Howard has been involved with watermist systems for 25 years and has taken watermist products from initial idea through to successful real fire testing and then onto market several times over. Howard is also very knowledgeable about Lithium Ion battery fire protection (Chairman of FPAA SIG lithium) , Gaseous fire suppression, Nitrogen generation and many other aspects of special hazard fire protection.
