Technical Officer to chair fire resistance testing committee
17th March 2015

Niall Rowan, Technical Officer at the Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP), has been appointed chair of FSH 22, the UK national committee for fire resistance testing.

The committee is responsible for maintaining the BS 476: Parts 20-24 series of fire resistance test methods. It also formulates the UK input into CEN TC 127, Fire safety in buildings, which is the committee which is responsible for all European Fire Test and Extended Application (EXAP) methods and for providing input to ISO standards, as appropriate.

Speaking about his aims for the committee, Mr Rowan said that, following discussion with committee members, he hoped to make it more accountable to the needs of its stakeholders, in particular to industry and UK plc. He suggested that this may mean a change in the focus of activities from areas where standardisation activities have a lesser effect on the UK to those areas where standardisation has a greater impact.

He added: “It is a great honour to be chosen as the chairman of FSH 22 and I pay tribute to my predecessors. I would also like to thank those members who devote their time and effort to attend meetings and undertake work between meetings. I could not do this job without them.”

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