Podcast Episodes

242 - Learning from Earthquake Engineering with Negar Elhami-Khorasani and Justin Moresco

Being a part of broader civil engineering and built environment sciences, we have the unique opportunity to learn from other "sister" disciplines, ra…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

241 - Opportunities with AI (in 2026) with MZ Naser

Is it too late to start with the AI in 2026? It wen't so far, does it still make sense to get interested in this technology?

Absolutely. Today we sit …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

240 - Distressed by the AI stuff around

I’m not stressed by AI itself. I’m stressed by the insatiable greed of those who profit from it, even if it means sacrificing large parts of the popu…

5 months ago

239 - Assessing post-fire structural damage in tunnels with Negar Elhami-Khorasani

A tunnel can ride out a fire without collapsing (or even critical visible structural damage), but a question whether it is safe for operations, and w…

5 months, 1 week ago

238 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 19 - Defining fires in your models

Welcome to another fire fundamentals episode! Today we dig into how to place a fire in a model so results reflect real physics. From plume inputs to …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

237 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 18 - Explosions with Ali Rangwala and Lorenz Boeck

Welcome back to Fire Fundamentals! Today with prof. Ali Rangwala from WPI and dr Lorenz Boeck from Rembe and WPI we take the world of explosion prote…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

236 - Fitting an efficient smoke control system in a confined space

A tight, historic cellar. Arched ceilings. Long corridors. Tiny shafts. We faced a design wall: to keep routes tenable, we needed twice the extractio…

6 months ago

235 - A Repeating Tragedy with Lazaros Filippidis

A fire in a public venue happened again. No, I am not talking about the one in Switzerland. Since the tragic New Year celebration, we had one more ne…

6 months, 1 week ago

234 - Building a fire safety culture with George Boustras

Today we sit down with safety science leader George Boustras - a professor at European University Cyprus, UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

233 - Safety as a moving target with Danielle Antonelis

Fires in informal settlements and humanitarian settings rarely make headlines, but they define daily life for millions. We sit down with Kindling fou…

6 months, 3 weeks ago