SUMMARYSeveral attempts have been made in the past to develop a European harmonized testing and assessment method for façades before the European commission decided to publish a call for tender on the topic. A project consortium from five countries (Sweden, UK, France, Germany and Hungary) applied to the call for tender and was contracted to develop a European approach to assess the fire performance of façades. 24 sub‐contractors and 14 stakeholder entities were part of the project. The objective of the European project was to address a request from the Standing Committee of Construction (SCC) to provide EC Member States regulators with a means to regulate the fire performance of façade systems based on a European approach agreed by SCC. The initial stages of this project were focused on establishing a register of the regulatory requirements in all Member States in relation to the fire performance of façade systems, and to identify those Member States who have regulatory requirements for the fire performance façade systems which go beyond the current EN 13501 (reaction to fire and fire resistance) classification systems and to collate the details of these additional requirements. After having confirmed the regulatory needs a testing and classification methodology based on BS 8414 and DIN 4102‐20 was developed to address the identified key performance and classification characteristics. This paper is a short overview of results the two‐year development work, which Final Report published by the European Commission in 2018.

The range of dangers around us is wide.Among these, the dangers caused by buildings and building structures form a special area.Knowledge of this can be useful for both security professionals and building users.In this article, the authors draw attention to the possibility and importance of training safety professionals in Hungary.Examples illustrate how hazards from buildings and building structures can in many cases be easily detected and taken into account with the right knowledge, and what conclusions can be drawn from the damage as to the causes.

Az épületek tervezése, kivitelezése és használata során a tűzvédelmi szempontokat különösen szem előtt kell tartani. Az épületek egyes alkotóelemei különbözőképpen befolyásolhatják a bekövetkezett tűz terjedését. Az épülethomlokzatokon történő tűzterjedés jellege és mértéke számos tényezőtől függ, nem csupán a homlokzati felületképzés anyagától. A cikk ismerteti a korszerű nyílászárók típusait és beépítésük lehetőségeit, valamint azok hatását a homlokzati tűzterjedésre. Konkrét példákat hoz a bekövetkezett tűzesetek tapasztalatai alapján.

With the end of the bipolar world order, aquestion has arisen: is civil protection still necessary? Another question is: to what extent can the facilities made for protecting the population against war be used against the threatening factors during periods of peace? In this article, the authors analyse the status of shelters, investigate and evaluate the national building practice and explore the opportunities of increasing the level of protection of the civilian population in the light of domestic building regulation.