A major international recognition for Italian research in the field of fire safety: the FLAME (Fire Risk Assessment Method) is officially cited in the sixth edition (2026) of the SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, the global reference work for fire protection engineering, published by the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE).
The reference to the method appears in the chapter dedicated to ‘Fire Risk Assessment Methods’, amongst the methodologies used for fire risk assessment. In particular, the volume highlights that FLAME represents a new semi-quantitative parametric method for fire risk assessment, developed to estimate risk in the workplace and characterised by its ability to distinguish between risk analysis relating to exposed persons and that relating to assets.
The FLAME method was devised by L. Fiorentini (TECSA), L. Marmo and E. Danzi (Turin Polytechnic) and was presented to the international scientific community through the publication:
Danzi E., Fiorentini L., Marmo L., FLAME: A Parametric Fire Risk Assessment Method Supporting Performance Based Approaches, Fire Technology, vol. 57, n. 2, pp. 721–765, 2021.
The inclusion in the SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering represents a significant recognition of the scientific value of the method, placing it within the leading reference text used by professionals, researchers, universities and technical bodies operating in the field of fire safety engineering at an international level. Now in its sixth edition, the handbook brings together the state of the art in knowledge and the most authoritative methodologies in the field of fire protection engineering.
The inclusion of FLAME in this prestigious volume confirms the methodology’s growing international significance and the contribution of Italian research to the development of innovative tools for fire risk assessment, particularly within the field of performance-based fire safety engineering.
