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published: 18/12/2007
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BRE Trust Receives Prestigious 'Lamp of Knowledge' Award 2007
The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) has selected the BRE Trust as the recipient of its prestigious David A Lucht 'Lamp of Knowledge' Award for 2007. This is the first time this award has been made to an organisation outside the US.
Sir Neville Simms (pictured holding the award), the chairman of Trust said “The BRE Trust is honoured to receive the Lamp of Knowledge Award from the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. In making this award the Board of Directors of the SFPE has recognised the substantial contribution the BRE Trust is making to increasing the opportunities for higher education and research in fire protection engineering”
Professor Jose Torero, who holds the BRE Trust/Royal Academy of Engineering chair in Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh accepted the Lamp of Knowledge on behalf of the Trust at the recent annual meeting of the SFPE held in Las Vegas.
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Notes for editors
1 The BRE Trust is a registered charity (no. 1092193) whose objectives are to advance knowledge, innovation and communication in all matters concerning the built environment for public benefit. BRE and BRE Global (formerly BRE Certification) are wholly owned subsidiary companies of the Trust. This ownership structure enables both companies to be held as a national asset on behalf of the construction industry and its clients, independent of specific commercial interests and protects impartiality and objectivity in research and advice. Profits made by the other subsidiary companies are passed to the Trust and used by it to promote its charitable objectives. Members of the Trust are firms, professional bodies, universities and other organisations covering a comprehensive range of interests across the built environment sector.
More information on the Trust can be obtained from www.bretrust.org.
2 The Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh is one of four centres of excellence that the BRE Trust has helped to set up. The other three are the Centre for Innovatory Construction Materials at the University of Bath; the Centre for Sustainable Building Design at Cardiff University; the Centre for Energy Utilisation research at the University of Strathclyde
3 The Society of Fire Protection Engineers was established in the US in 1950. It is the professional society representing those practicing the field of fire protection engineering. The Society has approximately 4500 members in the United States and abroad, and 57 regional chapters. The purpose of the Society is to advance the science and practice of fire protection engineering and its allied fields, to maintain a high ethical standard among its members and to foster fire protection engineering education.
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