COTAC news images: redundant 19th c farmhouse at Melhus, Malvik near Trondheim in Norway
The IHBC-supported COTAC Conference ‘Fire and Flood in the Built Environment: Keeping the Threat at Bay’ will take place at Alan Baxter and Associates, 75 Cowcross Street, London, on 20 November, with early bird booking rates now available.
Speakers include Ingval Maxwell OBE (Chair of COTAC), Johanna Berntsson-Arje (Heritage Lead, London Fire Brigade) and Katy Lithgow (Head Conservator, National Trust). David Mitchell and Chris McGregor of Historic Scotland will present a case study on the Glasgow School of Art.
COTAC writes:
The conference will examine principles and case histories to help designers and users benefit from lessons learnt in consequence of dealing with fire and flood.
Key topics
- Disaster planning and management
- What work is being carried out in the field
- The range of available technical solutions
- The challenges that have to be addressed
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