Seminar in the Netherlands |
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The next IWMA seminar will be held on the 7th of April in the Netherlands. The seminar will be conducted with Efectis Netherlands. The announcement including the preliminary program can be downloaded HERE. |
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The CEN working group for water mist systems will hold its first meeting in 2010 on February 23 and 24 at the DIN in Berlin, Germany. The components group will also meet again in conjunction with the event. One can expect further progress with restpect to the Ordinary Hazard 3 test protocol which shall be part of the TS after the first revision. |
Board meets on February 10 |
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The IWMA Board of Directors will meet again on the 10th of February. The meeting agenda will focus on planned events for 2010 such as the annual conference and five seminars for various countries, ongoing standardization work and reserach activities. |
Call for Papers available soon |
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The Call for Papers for the upcoming 2010 IWMA Conference is currently under preparation by the Scientific Council. It will be, together with the conference date and the location, distributed soon. Please watch our web site regularly for updates. |
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The IWMA would like to send Season Greetings to all members and the whole community, and those who celebrate it a Merry Christmas. We further wish you all the best for the new year all around the globe |
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The IWMA board has discussed during its last meeting the different proposals for the conference place 2010. London has been an excellent choice this year and it was not easy to find an adequate place for next year. The board finally decided to conduct the IWMA conference 2010 in Prague. The Call for Papers is currently under preparation and can be found on our web page soon. |
Board Meeting on December 8 |
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The IWMA Board of Directors will meet again on the 8th of December. The board will discuss among other things potential research work for the near future, the location for the IWMA conference 2010 and local seminars for various countries in 2010. |
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The work on the CEN TS 14972 continues and new documents in conjunction with the further develompent of the document were published recently to the members of the working group. Interested members should contact the office if they want to lear more about the ongoing work. |
IWMA Seminar in Copenhagen |
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The IWMA conducted in cooperation with the Danish association IDA a seminar on water mist technology on the 6th of October, 2009, in Copenhagen. 60 interested attendees came to this one day event in order to get updated on wate mist technology for fire-fighting. The attendees expressed their hope that this educational session will be offered again in the near future. IWMA and IDA agreed to do so in the near future. |
Dave Wells elected to the Board |
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Dave Wells from TYCO Inited Kingdom has been elected by the IWMA members to the Board of Directors. Dave can look upon long experience in the field, is a member of the CEN committee and others and will serve for the next 3 years on the board. The IWMA board consists now of 7 members again. |
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The IWMA Conference in London was distinguished by the highest attendance so far and shows the increasing interest in water mist. The number of submitted abstracts was also the highest so far so that not all papers could be given during the regular sessions. The world-wide crisis prevented even a higher attendance. Lots of interested parties were not allowed to attend due to cut of travel budgets. |
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The annual conference will start tomorrow in London, and even though we are facing still the impact of the economic crisis, the audience will be bigger than ever before. More than 120 delegates from all around the world will come together for two days in order to discuss the newest developments and findings. This shows the growing interest for water mist technology for fire-fighting. |
International Water Mist Conference 2009 |
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The preliminary program for the upcoming International Water Mist Conference in London from 23 - 25 September is available for download. You can download the program HERE. Please note that the content is subject to changes at any time. Updated versions of the program will be made available for download on our web page. |
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(16.08.2009) The next IWMA seminar will take place in Denmark. The educational session will be held on the 6th of October in cooperation with the Danish association IDA. The flyer for this event can be downloaded HERE. |
Scientific Council is reviewing abstracts |
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(22.06.09) The IWMA Scientific Council is currently reviewing the submitted abstracts for the forthcoming IWMA conference in September. Few abstracts were not submitted in time but the SC will only consider topics for presentation if an abstract was submitted. Our expert panel will finish the abstract review soon and the letters of acceptance will be sent to the presenters. |
UK delegation supports Scaling |
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(17.06.09) The final report of the IWMA research program on scaling has been released recently. The report was also made available to the IMO correspondence group for consideration and further discussion. The UK delegation has commented last week on the document, and the group supports the scaling rule as suggested by IWMA. The correspondence group will further treat the matter and one intends to finalize the discussion on this subject matter during the next IMO FP meeting at the beginning of 2010. Members who have not yet received a copy of the IWMA Scaling report should contact the office. |
NFPA 750 revision continues |
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(11.06.09) The group members of the NFPA 750 committee, with Lax Lakkonen representing IWMA, have continued the revision of the guideline for water mist systems. The committee has carried out a ballot vote a few days ago on some suggested changes to the current document. The recommended changes were accepted by the group and all ballot items received the necessary 2/3 required affirmative votes to pass. Interested members who would like to know more in detail about current ballot content may contact the office at any time. |
28 topics submitted for IWMA Conference |
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(01.06.09) 28 topics and abstracts have been submitted this year for presentation at the forthcoming IWMA conference in September. The members of the council made clear that topics will be only considered for presentation if an abstract was submitted, respectively. |
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(19.05.09) The last meeting of the task group 3 for water mist systems took place earlier in the year at SP in BORAS, Sweden. The group does meet twice a year and the next meeting is scheduled for the 2nd and 3rd of September. The report about the BORAS meeting has been released recently to the group members as well as the document about the planned deep fat fryer test scenario (official name: "Test protocol for the firefighting performance in commercial kitchen of type deep fat fryers") and the current status on the "Fire test procedure for occupancies Ordinary hazard group OH3". The group's priority is at the moment to finish the OH3 protocol as soon as possible. Members who are interested in more details about the work of the task group may contact the office at any time. |
Dead line for abstracts in two weeks |
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(10.05.2009) The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the International Water Mist Conference 2009 is on the 29th of May. Interested parties should submit abstracts no later than this date. The acceptance letters will be sent out until the 26th of June, 2009. |
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(30.04.2009) The final report of the IWMA Scaling project was published. A short summary can be found in the Download Section. Those who are interested in the whole report should send an email to our office (info [at] iwma.net) and the paper will be sent to you. |
Final report on Scaling project will be published soon |
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(01.04.2009) The final report on the scaling reserach project will be reviewed during the following board meeting on the 3rd of April, 2009. One can expect the approval of the report by all board members. The file will be made available to the members next week. |
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