Last February we visited the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, a city that in 2014 requested that UNESCO consider its historic center (Al-Badad) a universal heritage site. In order to qualify, UNESCO had certain requirements for approving the application. Among these requirements was a Risk Analysis of the Al-Badad Historic Center, which we conducted…
On June 29th and September 21st, the College of Industrial Engineers of Catalonia is organizing information sessions on the Postgraduate Program in Fire Engineering and Risk Analysis. The directors of the Postgraduate Program in Fire Engineering will present the program and content.
We have already explained in other articles and writings that risk, crisis, and/or emergency situations can occur at any time. At a given moment, our efforts to prevent them may be overwhelmed by a manifestation of the risk (perhaps unlikely), but with potentially magnified effects or damage. When prevention and protection are no longer feasible,…
Facilities dedicated to the storage and management of garbage and waste are, without a doubt, facilities with a high risk of fire. We have seen this this summer. In July alone, more than twenty fires were recorded in waste treatment plants in the State. The waste arrives at the recycling plant and is stored until…
Nantes, Notre Dame de Paris, St. Petersburg, the Mosque of Cordoba, among others. This weekend, July 18, 2020, the fire at Nantes Cathedral reminded us of the fire that occurred just over a year ago at Notre Dame de Paris. Although the consequences have not been as devastating, these fires, which occur so frequently over…