The Swedish Fire Research Board
The Swedish Fire Research Board, BRANDFORSK, is the joint agency of the Swedish goverment, local authorities, insurance companies and industry. Its brief is to initiate, fund and follow up various types of fire research. The work is under the leadership of the board of directors, and is undertaken in the form of project at universities, institutes of technology, research organisations, goverment agencies and industrial enterprises. The Secretariat of BRANDFORSK shares the premises of the Swedish Fire Protection Association, SFPA, and the SFPA is the principal and the party which enters into agreement with the State.