Episodes
Sept. 25, 2024
170 - Integrating Fire Safety and Security Objectives with Stewe Gwynne and Aoife Hunt
What happens to controlled doors when a fire is detected in the building? They unlock. Elevators? They go down. People are guided somewhere, and the fire strategy is executed. As it should. But what if the real threat is not ...
Sept. 18, 2024
169 - Engineering car parks for EV's with Ali Ashrafi and Pawel Woelke
EVs are becoming more of a 'normal' part of fire safety engineering rather than an 'exotic problem'. I've invited two colleagues from Thornton Tomasetti - Ali Ashrafi and Pawel Woelke, to discuss what this engineering looks l...
Sept. 11, 2024
168 - Fires in Waste Industry with Ragni Fjellgaard Mikalsen
Fires in the waste industry are not discussed much unless one sees a giant smoke plume in the media, followed by advice to close your windows. In these (rare?) cases, we remind ourselves of the massive industry related to sto...
Sept. 4, 2024
167 - CFD for consequences and fire growth with Jonathan Hodges
In this episode we talk with Jonathan Hodges of the Jensen Hughes on his experience with using advanced modelling in the realm of fire safety engineering. Jonathan sheds light on how the modelling is used at various Jensen Hu...
Aug. 28, 2024
166 - Bio-based insulation with Patrick Sudhoff
In the everchanging world every now and then we get a new driver, that dictates most of our choices. In the current built environment and building industry, carbon dioxide feels like such a driver. We don't like it, we want t...
Aug. 21, 2024
165 - Best Practice vs. Appropriate Practice with Arnold Dix
Is the "best practice" always the best approach to solving an engineering problem? Can we consider "best" and "appropriate" practices synonymous, and if not - how big is the gap between them? Join us as we welcome Professor A...
Aug. 14, 2024
164 - Experiences with AI with Xinyan Huang
The l ast time I had Xinyan on the show was in 2021, and we were all excited about the possibilities that AI could bring to Fire Safety Engineering and Smart Firefighting. Three years have passed, and while we are still excit...
Aug. 7, 2024
163 - Fire Fundamentals pt 11 - Soot in Fire Safety Engineering
Soot is perhaps the most complex product of combustion, and at the same time one of the most profound for our everyday fire safety engineering. The topic of soot is not getting much love in the world of fire science, so I’ve ...
July 31, 2024
162 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 9 - Jin's experiment on visibility in smoke
In this episode of Experiments that Changed Fire Science we cover T. Jin’s experiments on the visibility in smoke – two experiments carried out in 1970 and 1971 in Japan that truly changed the way how we model fires and how w...
July 24, 2024
161 - Community evacuation with Enrico Ronchi and Max Kinateder
Is evacuation of a community during a wildfire largely different from evacuation of a building? How much of the knowledge from the building fires is directly useful in planning and managing such an event, and what stuff is co...
July 17, 2024
160 - Fire Fundamentals pt 10 - Flame Spread with David Morrisset
In the episode 10 of fire fundamentals together with David Morrisset, a nearly graduated PhD student from the University of Edinburgh, we explore the intricate dynamics of flame spread and its crucial role in fire safety engi...
July 10, 2024
159 - The WUI Problem with Michele Steinberg and Birgitte Messerschmidt
With two Directors at NFPA - Michele Steinberg and Birgitte Messerschmidt, I'm trying to find an answer to a burning question - " what really is the WUI problem?" The WUI is not just a line on a map with an X distance from th...
July 3, 2024
158 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 9 - Know you boundaries (in CFD)
In today's Fire Science Show, we talk about how boundary conditions can make or break your fire simulation models. We'll explore boundary conditions' fundamental role in defining how simulations interact with their environmen...
June 26, 2024
157 - Revising Critical Velocity with Conrad Stacey and Michael Beyer
A critical velocity episode... who would have thought? Even though I'm not an enthusiast of this approach, I have to admire the new science and researchers striving to improve it. This week I welcome Conrad Stacey and Michael...
June 19, 2024
156 - Trigger Boundaries with Harry Mitchell and Nick Kalogeropoulos
What if you could predict the last possible time to evacuate your community before a wildfire wreaks havoc? What if you had that knowledge years before the wildfires happened and built up your preparedness based on this knowl...
June 12, 2024
155 - New Guideline for PV Fire Safety with Grunde Jomaas
Misconceptions in fire science are a strange thing. You present countless proof, publish research papers, and carry conversations, and yet… they live their own lives—spreading with no control and cluttering communication. One...
June 4, 2024
154 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 8 - Compartment Fire
Happy birthday, Fire Science Show! On the 3rd Anniversary of the podcast launch, I'm thrilled to deliver an episode on one of the most fascinating aspects of fire science - the compartment fire. Instead of going through the u...
May 29, 2024
404 - Short technical break
I'm very sorry, but I could not finalize the episode to air this week in time, and in consequence, I have chosen to have a short technical break in the podcast. We will return next week with a (hopefully) really exciting epis...
May 22, 2024
153 - Fire Safety Engineer of the Future is a Great Communicator
A few weeks ago in Copenhagen, stepping onto the stage to open the SFPE Fire Safety Conference and Expo on Performance-Based Design, I took a bit of a gamble. I was invited to give an opening keynote, but instead of talking a...
May 15, 2024
152 - Why we need good standards with Björn Sundström
In this episode, we dive into standardization efforts for fire safety. An entire universe of testing laboratories, committees, auditors, and certifiers work together to provide product end-user fire safety classification. So,...
May 8, 2024
151 - Elevator evacuation with Axel Mossberg
The fire is detected in the building. Please evacuate. Do not use the elevator. I’ve heard this emergency message perhaps a thousand times. It is deeply engraved in my mind to the extent that the moment I hear the first beep ...
May 1, 2024
150 - Wind Turbine Fires with Guillermo Rein
Wind turbine fires - are they an issue, or are they not? In this episode, I am joined by Prof. Guillermo Rein of the Imperial College London, who raised this issue 10 years ago at the IAFSS conference, and I believe we still ...
April 24, 2024
149 - CROSS UK with Neil Gibbins and Peter Wilkinson
CROSS UK is Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures in UK. CROSS is a confidential reporting system which allows professionals working in the built environment to report on fire and structural safety issues. These are th...
April 17, 2024
148 - Building Integrated Photovoltaics with Reidar Stølen
In this episode of the Fire Science Show we go in depth on the Building Integrated Photo-Voltaic systems (BIPV). It is a topic relevant to many fire engineers, and one on which it is very difficult to find a lot of informatio...
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