This website will be replaced by framemethod.wordpress.com "FRAME" is probably the easiest FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING tool to define the fire safety in new or existing buildings ... More about it...  "FRAME" is waarschijnlijk het makkelijkste instrument voor het bepalen van de brandveiligheid van nieuwe of bestaande gebouwen met Fire Safety Engineering ... Meer weten ... "FRAME" est probablement l'outil le plus facile pour définir la protection incendie des bâtiments nouveaux ou existants par l'ingéniérie de sécurité incendie... En savoir plus ... "FRAME" es probablemente el metodo lo más fácil para determinar la protección de edificios nuevos o ya existentes con "Ingeniería de Protección Contra Incendios" ... Saber mas ... "FRAME" ist wahrscheinlich das einfachste Instrument um die Brandsicherheit in neuen oder bestehenden Gebäuden mit Brandschutz-Engineering zu definieren ... Mehr darüber ... "FRAME" è probabilmente il più semplice strumento per definire la sicurezza antincendio negli edifici nuovi o esistenti con l’ingegneria della sicurezza anticendio... Più su di esso ... "FRAME" é provavelmente a ferramenta mais fácil para definir a segurança contra incêndios em edifícios novos ou já existentes com a engenharia de segurança contra incêndio ... Saiba mais ...  FRAME New website: framemethod.wordpress.com Mai 2015 : Un bug a été corrigé dans la page info-D de la version FR-005 du tableur. Les utilisatuers régistrés peuvent télécharger la version FR-006 Les recommendations d’amélioration pour reduire le risque d’incendie indiquées dans l’étude FRAME de 2004  n’ont pas été mis en place  voir : FRAME, examples. Le 10 octobre 2013, un incendie a effectivement détruit l’usine de bonbons comme prévu par le calcul FRAME, voir  RTBF vidéo...  Case study n°21 of the calculation examples book has become a real fire. The improvement recommendations were not implemented, and a fire on Oct.10 , 2013 destroyed the factory. see the  RTBF video...  Friends of FRAME Some persons and organisations have contributed to development, translation, dissemination of FRAME, or organize training with the FRAME method. You can find them here: VINÇOTTE Safety Engineers  Co-developers of the Excel- executable,  contact:  ir. Bart Van Bever Universiteit GENT, Fire safety engineering: Postgraduate studies in Ghent     contact: Prof. Bart Merci A-FIRST Cursus : Hogere opleiding brandpreventie deel 1, module 5 : De FRAME -methode, contact : Paul Peeters Glasgow Caledonian University, Fire Safety Engineering   contact Iain Sanderson, PhD. Luca Fiorentini of Tecsa S.p.a  contact Luca Fiorentini Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Organització d'Empreses   contact : Juan Carlos Lopez Lopez HazMat Inzenjering (Jovan Injac)  kindly provided the Serbian translation of FRAME and FRAM-ini All users are invited to send back their remarks, which will allow us to improve the method and the  spreadsheet. All useful remarks will be included in the next working version. Registered users of FRAME will be informed on new releases and can receive them for free. Construction cost index or GDP deflator ? For factor a, the monetary value of the building has to be recalculated to its value (in Euro) in 2000, to take care of the inflation. As inflation varies from one country to an other, it is necessary to find a common tool for this calculation, and up to version 2013-NN-004 , the construction cost index was used for the correction of inflation. This value isn’t always easily found, and therefore it was changed to the GDP deflator (Wikipedia will telle what it is). Suppose that in your country , the current  exchange rate  for your currency is 30 CUR = 1 EURO and that the inflation since 2000 was 100 % . The GDP value for 2000 would then be 100 and for today it would be 200.  A  present building value of  210 million CUR will correspond with 210 million :  30 (CUR = 1 EUR) : 200 (GDP today) x 100 (GDP 2000) =  3.5 million EURO 2000 value. These calculations are automatically made on sheet A-Ref. Registered users, please check for the latest versions  (-005) of your FRAME calculation  sheets on the download page. The method remains unchanged, but some new features are included in the 2013 spreadsheet and some bugs were corrected... The national construction cost index has been replaced by the GDP Deflator. FRAM-ini , a qualitative FRA method, based on FRAME, is published in English, Dutch, French, Spanish and Serbian.  From March 2014, there is now a slightly modified version 2. for more info see at the FRAM-ini page