Programme FIVE 2025

08:30 Registration

09:00 Opening Ceremony

Bergthora Thorkelsdottir, Director general, Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration

09:30 Keynote Session

09:30-09:55
Risk Management and batteries - a look at the ecosystem
Christina F. Francis
Tesla, Inc. 

10:00 EV Guidelines

10:00-10:15
Operational guide for Rescue operation involving lithium-ion batteries
Per-Ola Malmquist, Marcus Vilhelmsson
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), Sweden

10:20-10:35
Safety guidelines for battery swap station
Nils Rosmuller, Ben Riemersma and Tom Hessels
Netherlands Institute for Public Safety, The Netherlands

10:40 Coffee Break

11:20 Battery Fires

11:20-11:35
Can we use global data to identify and pre-empt electric vehicle battery fires caused by manufacturing faults?
Emma Sutcliffe, Daniel Fish
EV FireSafe, Australia

11:40-11:55
Experimental investigation of fires with multiple electric vehicle (BEV) batteries in the storage situation
Justus Frenz¹, Jochen Zehfuß¹, Björn Maiworm², Kristina Steinbauer², Christian Knaust^3
1TU Braunschweig – iBMB, Germany
²Landeshauptstadt München - Branddirektion, Germany
³Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und Prüfung (BAM), Germany

12:00-12:15
The effect of different trigger methods on the thermal runaway propagation in large-format lithium-ion battery modules
Christoph Meraner
RISE Fire Research, Norway

12:20 Lunch

13:40 Safety of Alternative Fuels

13:40-13:55
Solid State Batteries: are current safety-related regulations adapted?
Arnaud Bordes, Amandine Lecocq, Caroline Gaya, Jérôme Lesage, Clément Rabette, Thierry Delbaere and Guy Marlair
The French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (Ineris), France

14:00-14:15
Electric shock from a burning or crashed vehicle – a comprehensive risk assessment
Vesa Linja-aho
Independent Electrical Safety Professional, Finland

14:20-14:35
Standardizing Worlwide Uniform Information for First and Second Responders
Kurt Vollmacher¹ and Judy Jeevarajan^2
1Energy Safety, Belgium
²Electrochemical Safety Research Institute (ESRI), UL Research Institutes, USA

14:40 Coffee Break

15:20 EV Fire Suppression

15:20-15:35
Analysis of EV Firefighting Tactics and the Impacts on Stranded Energy: Full-scale Test Results
Victoria Hutchison Lutz
Fire Protection Research Foundation, USA

15:40-15:55
Performance Evaluation of Fire Suppression Method for Electric Vehicles through Full-Scale Fire Experiments
Jongjin Jeong¹, Kyewon Park¹, Yichul Shin¹, Sungho Hong¹, Jaeman Park^2
1Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea, Republic of Korea
²Ankug Engineering, Republic of Korea

16:00-16:15
Safety evaluation of extinguishing water after a lithium battery fire in terms of ecotoxicity and physicochemical parameters
Lucie Pokorná-Krayzelova¹, Hana Kujalová¹, Jan Bindzar¹, Lucia Tajnaiová¹, Klára Anna Mocová¹, Jana Kafroňová¹, Radek Vurm¹, Jakub Pilař¹, Kryštof Řehák¹, Barbora Štěpánová², Petra Najmanová², Jan Karl³, Romana Friedrichová³, Milan Růžička³, Marek Martinec^1
1University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic
²Dekonta a.s., Czech Republic
³Ministry of the Interior - General Directorate of the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic

16:20 Poster Session (pitch presentations)

17:00 Cocktail Reception

08:30 Registration

08:50 Welcome day 2

09:00 Keynote Session

09:00-09:25
Electric vehicle fire safety and the impact on parking regulations
Carlo Mol
VITO/EnergyVille

09:30 Car Park Fires

09:30-09:45
Analysis in relation to English and French regulations of London Luton Airport’s Terminal 2 parking lot fire on Tuesday October 10, 2023
Jérémie GIRARD, Olivier LECOQ-JAMMES, Pascal VAN HULLE, Xavier DUPONCHEL, Daniel JOYEUX, Virginie DREAN
Efectis France, France

09:50-10:05
Risk mitigation toolbox for fire safety of modern carparks
Sigurjon Ingolfsson¹, Peter Dingemans², Nigel Williams², Tom Vandeweghe², Tom Antonissen^2
1Arup, Denmark
²European Parking Association (EPA), Belgium

10:10-10:25
Modern Car Parks - Alternative approaches for economic structural fire safety design
Graham Couchman¹, Yigit Ozcelik¹, Shami Smith-Sandhu², Craig English^2
1SCI, UK
²Semper, UK

10:30 Coffee Break

11:10 Fire Development

11:10-11:25
Application of design fire based on statistical analysis to predict the severity of electric and internal combustion engine vehicle fires
Mohd Zahirasri Mohd Tohir^1,2, César Martín-Gómez^1
1Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
²Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

11:30-11:45
Vehicle Fires in a WUI-Type Scenario
Giovanni Di Cristina, Matthew Bundy, and Anthony Hamins
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

11:50-12:05
Flammability Test Procedure Development for Motor Vehicle Interior Materials
Jason Huczek, Marc Janssens
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), USA

12:10 Lunch

13:20 Fire Incidents

13:20-13:35
Fire in electrical scooters - The power of lithium batteries
Bjarni Ingimarsson
Greater Reykjavik Fire and Rescue Service, Iceland

13:40-13:55
Documented vehicle fires in marine vehicle carriers from 2013 to 2023
Magnus Arvidson, Anna Karlsson
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden

14:00-14:15
Fire safety in the car recycling chain
Tom Hessels, Margrethe Kobes, Nils Rosmuller
Nederlands Instituut Publieke Veiligheid, The Netherlands

14:20 Concluding Remarks

14:30 Coffee break

14:40 Technical Visit (Vulcano Safari)

Joint technical visit together with ISTSS (starts in main hall)