A word from the editor

Abstract

In this issue we have a widespread of different topics, some of which I considered “emerging issues” (“Green Buildings” & “Elderly at home”). There are a number of fire related topics that are closely related to climate change, ageing population, and energy. There is a need for us to start to take these topics a lot more into consideration and simply just start to work on them (read plan ahead for them). In future numbers we will always include some of these topics, fire safety is not only advanced engineering solutions to solve problem; it can also be much simpler than that. Just thinking about mass refugee camps (created due to climate change, wars, economy, etc.); when it comes to fire safety for those type of settlements we need to go back to basics to solve problems (distances between “fire loads”, construction materials, alternative escapes...basically a first principles approach), a new advanced detection algorithm for a fire detector won’t solve the problems we encounter for these situations.