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189 - Simple things that work

This episode emphasises the value of focusing on simple things in fire safety engineering, something we somehow miss when we go too deep into the technical details of our projects. I've looked at eight different aspects of fi...

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Feb. 19, 2025

189 - Simple things that work

This episode emphasises the value of focusing on simple things in fire safety engineering, something we somehow miss when we go too deep into the technical details of our projects. I've looked at eight different aspects of f…
Feb. 11, 2025

188 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 13 - Porous solid fuels

In this episode of Fire Fundamentals, together with Dr Sara McAllister, we dwell on how stuff burns... And it is far from an easy question. While the general theme of the episodes is porous fuels, we discuss them from differ…
Feb. 5, 2025

187 - Smouldering of preserved timber with Wenxuan Wu

Can a tiny amount of bio-protective coating completely change the fire behaviour of mass timber logs? If you asked me that some time ago, I would say it would probably be neutral. Can a 0.5 x 0.5 m free-standing log of timbe…
Jan. 29, 2025

186 - Egressibility: a paradigm shift in evacuation research with Enrico Ronchi

If we truly want to account for the population at a disadvantage in evacuation, there is only this much we can do with the current approach... Pre-evacuation time distributions, walking speeds, and so on only tell us a part …