IITGN gets world-class fire testing laboratory

The new lab named ‘Shah Bhogilal Jethalal Laboratory for Passive Fire System Testing’ will help enhance fire safety in high-rise buildings, airports, metro rail, and other infrastructure projects through critical testing of building elements.

The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) inaugurated the ‘Shah Bhogilal Jethalal Laboratory for Passive Fire System Testing’ to boost research and development in the area of fire safety in the country. Mukesh Shah, managing partner in the Ahmedabad-based Shah Bhogilal Jethalal & Bros (AAAG India), has provided support for the establishment of the lab. 

With this, the institute is going to multiply various activities of the Centre for Safety Engineering with a special emphasis on fire safety engineering. These will include laboratory development and augmentation, teaching of courses, inviting eminent scholars as visiting professors or scholars-in-residence, and organising seminars, conferences, or other scholarly endeavours in this area.  

The new lab will have accreditation from international standards bodies and will assist Indian manufacturers in achieving global standards in designing and manufacturing universally acceptable products, which will boost ‘Make in India’ efforts in this sector. 

The new lab will help enhance fire safety in high-rise buildings, airports, metro rail, and other infrastructure projects through critical testing of building elements. It is equipped to test products such as fire doors, walls, dampers, fire curtains, door hardware, horizontal through penetration firestops, and more such products of up to 3x3 metre specimen size. 

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