Conference Themes

  1. Land Use Planning
    • Community planning
    • Urban growth planning
    • Relocation planning - managed retreats
    • Fire protection planning - resilience nodes
  2. Design of new buildings
    • Construction materials
    • Fire-resistant design
    • Ignition-resistant design
    • Building standards for new constructions
  3. Retrofit of existing buildings
    • Ignition and fire spread mechanisms
    • Survivability of homes
    • Retrofitting and home hardening
    • Building standards for existing constructions
    • Retrofit Incentives
  4. Defensible space development and maintenance
    • Effectiveness of defensible space
    • Appropriate vegetation for defensible space
    • Maintenance of defensible space
    • Firefighter access requirements
  5. Code and policy development
    • Regulations
    • Building code provisions
    • Development of mitigation standards
    • Re-evaluating and advancing building standards
    • Policy recommendations
    • Pre-fire grant programs
    • Sustainable Markets & Economies
    • Equity issues
  6. Community Recovery
    • Evacuation
    • Resilience
    • Reconstruction
    • Infrastructure exposure and functionality
  7. Exposure Assessment and mitigation
    • Geospatial analysis
    • Fire hazard assessment 
    • Fire vulnerability assessment
    • Fire risk assessment
    • Mitigation approaches at the community and individual home levels
    • Insurance