Podcast Episodes

232 - 2025 Wrap up episode - How fires turn into catastrophies

Catastrophes don’t happen because of one bad decision; they happen when many small assumptions fail at the same time. I take this opportunity to talk…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Merry Christmas everyone!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you Merry Christmas, a great time with your families, a bit of rest and time to reflect, and an awesome…

7 months ago

231 - BESS explosion prevention and mitigation with Lorenz Boeck and Nick Bartlett

Today we cover another branch of safety of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), that is explosion prevention in mitigation. I always thought you ca…

7 months, 1 week ago

230 - Wind driven conflagration experiments with Faraz Hedayati

A facility with 105 synchronized fans pushing hurricane-class wind across a full-size house while a live fire... This is not science fiction - this i…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

229 - Learning from 900 fires with Björn Maiworm

What can you learn after processing observations across 900 severe fires? A lot. Actually, I will send you to the paper straight away:

Evaluating 900 …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

228 - Quantifying the expected utility of fire tests with Andrea Franchini

What do you expect from running a fire test? I would hope that it improves my state of knowledge. But do they do this? We often pursue them blindly, …

8 months ago

227 - The differences between EV and ICEV fires in car parks

A viral clip of an EV igniting was what started my worries about safety in car parks I have been designing. Are we ready for fast growing fires? Sinc…

8 months, 1 week ago

226 - New Swiss fire safety code with Gianluca De Sanctis and Sofia Kourgiantaki

It is a massive effort to rewrite a national fire safety code around measurable risk, explicit targets, and cost-effectiveness. But sometimes, there …

8 months, 2 weeks ago

225 - Battery Energy Storage Systems with Noah Ryder

Demand for the energy storage is as high as ever, and is about to triple-quadruple. The development of technology is at unprecedented phase, and even…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

224 - Navigating the complexities to change our field - a roundtable with Steve McGuirk and Brian Meacham

This week, in the Fire Science Show, we host a roundtable discussion on complexities in fire safety science and engineering.

Most safety failures don’…

9 months ago