Aim
The course will provide the fire engineer with sufficient knowledge to allow him/her to collaborate at early stages in the planning process so that risk analyses can be included and used to create a base at a strategic stage of the planning work.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to identify the risks and vulnerable project components located at the site under study.

• be able to analyse risks and vulnerabilities in an urban environment, as well as provide suggestions for initiatives to be considered in connection with planning.

• be able to demonstrate an understanding of how the planning process works and of important values and qualities in the existing environment.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to prepare a planning proposal in such a way that valued qualities of the area under study are safeguarded.

• be able to evaluate sources of risk and vulnerable project components located in the area, and integrate these factors into the plan in a community-related robust manner.

• be able to apply established methods of risk analysis to a plan site that contains risk sources and vulnerable components.

• be able to demonstrate a capability, both verbally and in writing, to report on and discuss with community decision-makers actual risk-related issues in community-based planning.

• be able to search for, and assess information with a high degree of independence and to assume responsibility that the group work carried out is completed and reported on within given time-frames.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• demonstrate a capacity for exercising good judgement regarding the relevant scientific, community-related, and ethical aspects.

• demonstrate insight into the possibilities and limitations of the techniques for the community, and into the responsibility of humans for their use.

Contents
In the project assignment, the student will put into practice his/her knowledge of planning at, above all, the scale-level of general planning and extended general plans. However, certain components will be treated at a more detailed scale.

In parallel with the urban building assignment, a course component will be offered whose objective is to provide knowledge of how risks of various kinds can be managed in community-based planning, using risk analyses as starting points. This course component is aimed at providing insight into the application of the existing legislation framework as a management tool to enable risks to be considered in the community-based planning process. The students will obtain an understanding of the various central, regional, and community administrations' view of the concept, "Risk considerations in the community-based planning process". An important aspect involves the linkage, "Environmental Impact Assessment – Risk Considerations". Also included in the course are lectures and literature study aimed at addressing the problem, "Community's vulnerability and preparedness measures in community-based planning".

The project work is reported in the form of a public seminar. The teaching aspect is carried out in project form with supporting lectures, consultations, and study visits. The work is constructed around a training site located in a nearby municipality. The written report shall follow the Brandtekniks regler (Department of Fire Safety Engineering regulations) for assignments at Level II, http://www.brand.lth.se/fileadmin/brandteknik/utbild/inuppgkrav.pdf.

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