Sustainability in the Built Environment – Batteries and Solar Panels

About this Event Wednesday 10 June 2026

This webinar provides building surveyors with a targeted overview of how modern renewable energy technologies—solar systems, inverters, and energy storage units—interact with buildings, and how these interfaces create both opportunities and fire safety challenges relevant to assessment and occupancy authorisation.

Understand why fire testing matters:

This webinar will include an introduction to current testing methodologies and the risks they aim to address, and explain the limitations of standards such as UL 9540A, the role of NFPA 855, new developments out of China, and the challenges in extrapolating results from experimental studies—concluding with an assessment of how well current testing frameworks meet our real world needs.

The webinar also examines firefighting considerations, focusing on how solar array and battery fires affect occupant egress, building structural integrity, fire rescue operations, and smoke hazard management. 

This webinar will look ahead to emerging technologies—including flow batteries, sodium based chemistries, and hydrogen energy systems—highlighting their potential benefits, their associated fire and explosion hazards, and what surveyors need to anticipate as these systems become more common.

Laurence Kwong is a Chartered Fire Safety Engineer with a passion for applying fire engineering principles to improve safety outcomes across the built environment. With a background in chemical engineering and a Master of Engineering in Fire Safety, he brings both technical depth and practical insight to his projects.
Laurence is particularly interested in healthcare facilities, the challenges of emerging technologies such as battery fires, and ensuring that safety solutions are both robust and workable.

Alex Chubb is a highly experienced fire safety engineer with nearly 15 years in the building services and compliance sector. With a strong foundation in fire systems design, installation, commissioning, and experimental fire testing Alex has developed deep expertise in Dangerous Goods compliance, performance-based fire safety solutions, and essential services auditing. He is an Accredited Practitioner (Fire Safety) under FPAS and regularly advises on complex fire compliance issues, including for NSW Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC). Alex has been involved in nearly every data centre project delivered by CORE, providing hands-on input across Tier III and IV environments. 

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10 June 2026

Zoom Webinar

Module 1: 2 CPD points

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