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184 - Cost-benefit analysis in structural fire safety with Thomas Gernay and Chenzi Ma

This episode delves into the financial aspects of fire safety in building design, highlighting the balance between cost and effectiveness. My guests - prof. Thomas Gernay and Chenzi Ma from Johns Hopkins University share insi...

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Jan. 15, 2025

184 - Cost-benefit analysis in structural fire safety with Thomas Gernay and Chenzi Ma

This episode delves into the financial aspects of fire safety in building design, highlighting the balance between cost and effectiveness. My guests - prof. Thomas Gernay and Chenzi Ma from Johns Hopkins University share ins…
Jan. 8, 2025

183 - Innovation and fire safety with Vincent Brannigan

History repeats itself. A new thing is invented. We learn about it, understand it, and apply measures to capture its behaviour and regulate it. And then another new thing is invented. The measures we used start failing us, a…
Dec. 18, 2024

182 - Bias in fire research

Fire is a highly contextualized problem; therefore, there is no such thing as an unbiased or "objective" fire experiment. It is a thing that many researchers would understand but is very rarely pointed out. Where it is not a…
Dec. 11, 2024

181 - Regulatory regimes with Vincent Brannigan

I just drove 500 km to have a conversation with Professor Vincent Brannigan from the University of Maryland, a very unique expert who combines law with fire engineering. In this discussion, we go into the complexities of bui…