A review of fire safety separation distances between camping units and caravans
(2024) 4th European Symposium on Fire Safety Science – ESFSS 2024 In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2885(1).- Abstract
Almost 20 years ago, the Swedish civil contingency agency (MSB) representatives published a general advice on fire protection at camping facilities. Within this document there contains advice on what distances are needed between camping units to reduce the risk of fire spreading between them, however how these distances were decided on is lost to history and given the changes and development in caravans and camping over the last 30 years a review of this guidance was required. To do this an extensive literature review into both scientific and other countries regulations was performed. The scientific literature was found lacking or outdated in this area, and country regulations were shown to be sporadic and highly varied in their given... (More)
Almost 20 years ago, the Swedish civil contingency agency (MSB) representatives published a general advice on fire protection at camping facilities. Within this document there contains advice on what distances are needed between camping units to reduce the risk of fire spreading between them, however how these distances were decided on is lost to history and given the changes and development in caravans and camping over the last 30 years a review of this guidance was required. To do this an extensive literature review into both scientific and other countries regulations was performed. The scientific literature was found lacking or outdated in this area, and country regulations were shown to be sporadic and highly varied in their given guidance, with little evidence of scientific basis for chosen distances.
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- author
- Wilkens Flecknoe-Brown, Konrad LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- camping, caravan, fire spread, separation distances
- in
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series
- volume
- 2885
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 012061
- pages
- 7 pages
- publisher
- IOP Publishing
- conference name
- 4th European Symposium on Fire Safety Science – ESFSS 2024
- conference location
- Barcelona, Spain
- conference dates
- 2024-10-09 - 2024-10-11
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85212086756
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
- DOI
- 10.1088/1742-6596/2885/1/012061
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 5a9bb369-e2eb-4558-9c54-5fb1b6b13213
- date added to LUP
- 2024-11-30 20:58:57
- date last changed
- 2025-04-04 14:33:53
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abstract = {{<p>Almost 20 years ago, the Swedish civil contingency agency (MSB) representatives published a general advice on fire protection at camping facilities. Within this document there contains advice on what distances are needed between camping units to reduce the risk of fire spreading between them, however how these distances were decided on is lost to history and given the changes and development in caravans and camping over the last 30 years a review of this guidance was required. To do this an extensive literature review into both scientific and other countries regulations was performed. The scientific literature was found lacking or outdated in this area, and country regulations were shown to be sporadic and highly varied in their given guidance, with little evidence of scientific basis for chosen distances.</p>}},
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title = {{A review of fire safety separation distances between camping units and caravans}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2885/1/012061}},
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