Podcast Episodes
Back to Search010 - Seeking the origins of standardized fire testing and ancient fire protection materials with John Gales
Season 1 Episode 10
Did you know that the standard temperature-time curve, which is the underpinning of the fire resistance of assemblies, is over 100 years old? Once yo…
5 years ago
009 - Cognitive biases and decision making in evacuation with Michael Kinsey
Season 1 Episode 9
Why do we take certain decisions during an evacuation process? How do we choose the evacuation route? These are often affected by cognitive biases, w…
5 years ago
008 - Zone modelling is not dead with Colleen Wade
Season 1 Episode 8
Zone modelling is a technique introduced in 1970's and 80's that has changed fire science. In my personal opinion, along with oxygen calorimetry and …
5 years ago
007 - AI in smart firefighting and the future of FSE PBD with Xinyan Huang
Season 1 Episode 7
Everyone is talking about AI, but how can we really use it in fire safety engineering and firefighting? Prof Xinyan Huang of HK PolyU will explain hi…
5 years, 1 month ago
006 - EV's, rapid fires and car parks
Season 1 Episode 6
In Episode 6, our host, dr Wojciech Wegrzynski, explains his experiences with modelling rapidly growing fires in car parks. Such fire growth may be t…
5 years, 1 month ago
Battery fires with Roeland Bisschop
Season 1 Episode 5
Today I've talked to Roeland Bisschop, Project Manager in RISE, about his first-hand experience with battery fires. Roeland explained to me how do ba…
5 years, 1 month ago
Facade fires and AI with Matt Bonner
Season 1 Episode 4
Dr Matthew Bonner of the Imperial College London is one of the leading scientists touching on the subject of the fire safety of facades. His flavour …
5 years, 1 month ago
Introduction
Season 1 Episode 1
Let's do this. For the first time... Welcome to the Fire Science Show!
My name is Wojciech Wegrzynski, and I'm with the Building Research Institute (I…
5 years, 1 month ago
Smouldering megafires with Guillermo Rein
Season 1 Episode 2
Guillermo Rein is a recipient of ERC Consildator Grant on smouldering megafires. The most challenging source of founding, meant for the projects that…
5 years, 1 month ago
Tenability criteria with Gabriele Vigne
Season 1 Episode 3
How do you know if a building is safe in fire or not? Usually through performing ASET-RSET analyses, in which you determine how and when the tenabili…
5 years, 1 month ago