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020 - Fire Safety Engineering as a socio-technical system with Brian Meacham
Do you sometimes feel that fire safety engineering is not making a footprint as it should? With all our knowledge, models, technology...why do huge f…
4 years, 10 months ago
019 - Modelling human behaviour in wildfire evacuation with Erica Kuligowski
There is plenty of fire engineers who think they are modelling human behaviour... Some claim they can do it... And there is very, very few who actual…
4 years, 10 months ago
018 - Engineered timber with Danny Hopkin
Engineered timber is on a trajectory to become the construction material of the future. However, on that pathway there stands the fire issue. Wood bu…
4 years, 10 months ago
017 - Pyrolife - from fire resistance to fire resilience with Cathelijne Stoof
Season 1 Episode 17
When you think about battling wildfires, what is the image you see in front of your eyes? Probably an air tanker (at least that was what I saw...). A…
4 years, 10 months ago
016 - The future of evacuation modelling with Enrico Ronchi and Ruggiero Lovreglio
Season 1 Episode 16
Evacuation modelling is paramount in accounting for the human aspect in our fire modelling. But how is it developing? Where are we with our tools, an…
4 years, 10 months ago
015 - Global view on the fire safety from a starchitect perpective with Benjamin Ralph
Season 1 Episode 15
Have you ever wondered who truly has the most power over the fire safety of a building? In my opinion, the answer is very simple - the Architect. Thi…
4 years, 11 months ago
014 - A joyrney through the scales of fire phenomena with Sara McAllister
Season 1 Episode 14
Have you ever wondered how is a fire of a match or candle different from a wildfire? Or maybe rather, why is it different? What is it, that makes the…
4 years, 11 months ago
013 - On the use and abuse of CFD in fire engineering with Wolfram Jahn
Season 1 Episode 13
We are living in a kind of weird time, where the most complex tool we have is at the same time the most commonly used (and abused one). The Computati…
4 years, 11 months ago
012 - Science, Industry, Legislators. How do we make them work together on a fire safe world? - Kees Both
Season 1 Episode 12
In this episode, I had the pleasure and privilege to host dr Kees Both, the Technical Manager of Standards & Regulations in Etexgroup. Kees wanted to…
4 years, 11 months ago
011 - Why temperature is so easy to measure but so hard to interpret?
Season 1 Episode 11
What is the single most measured thing in fire science? The answer is easy - temperature. We use it everywhere - from learning material properties in…
5 years ago