Fire Protection for Heritage Places: Principles and Resources

This tutorial is a compilation of relevant resources pertaining to the protection of heritage buildings from fire risk. It can be accessed through the website of the World Monument Fund (WMF).

The tutorial outlines basic guiding principles of practical protection of heritage buildings from the potential risk posed by fire. This includes ‘passive’ and ‘active’ ways of limiting threat of fire at heritage sites. The tutorial describes personnel training and site planning taken into account while preventing, detecting and suppressing fire. Additionally, it provides a bibliography of publication references, video tutorials and specialist knowledge shared by a diverse set of heritage agencies across the world.

 Some of the contents of the tutorial are:

• Understanding the causes of fire
• Building codes to ensure life safety
• Managing a damaged site after fire