OVERVIEW

The NFPA 13 is the National Fire Protection Association, USA Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler System. The 2019 Edition has incorporated several innovative technologies and new features in it. This webinar session will introduce some of these changes and updates.


SPEAKER PROFILE

Ir. Loo Chee Kin is a Senior Consultant with Global Risk Consultants (GRC) and before that he was a Senior Engineering Specialist with FM Global for some 12 years. He has more than 20 year engineering experience, from design to field work. He graduated from UMIST, Manchester, UK with a B.Eng in Electromechanical Systems Engineering and prior to that a Diploma in Electromechanical Systems Engineering from Kota Bharu Polytechnic in Kota Bharu, Malaysia. He is a P.Eng in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and a Member of IEM. He is a Member of IMechE and IEE, and registered C.Eng. He is an active committee member in the IEM, the current Advisor of METD, Chairman of Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Board (DRRAB), member in the Fire Advisory Board (FAB) as well as various Sub-Committees and Boards. Ir. Loo represents IEM to various dialogues with Bomba and other agencies and working standards committees as well as trainer and speakers for courses and seminars.

His areas of risk evaluation are both for existing sites as well as engineering services for new projects of clients. He has visited and provided loss prevention engineering services for various plants, which includes semiconductor wafer fabs, offices, machine shops, rubber processing facilities, paper working, food, healthcare products, electrical apparatus assembly, foundry, molten glass, mines, mills, warehousing facilities, etc. He provides consulting to project team from site selection, greenfield development, plan review and field acceptance testing, making the locations highly protected risk (HPR) state.