Fire Science Show
By Wojciech Wegrzynski
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Fire Science Show is connecting fire researchers and practitioners with a society of fire engineers, firefighters, architects, designers and all others, who are genuinely interested in creating a fire-safe future. Through interviews with a diverse group of experts, we present the history of our field as well as the most novel advancements. We hope the Fire Science Show becomes your weekly source of fire science knowledge and entertainment. Produced in partnership with the Diamond Sponsor of the show - OFR Consultants
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203 - The lessons from repeating Jin's experiment on visibility in smoke
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May 28, 2025 |
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202 - Designing fire safety with firefighters in mind
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May 21, 2025 |
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201 - The last fire - a novel set in industrial fire engineering with Joaquim Casal
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May 14, 2025 |
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200 - Façade flammability across scales and standards with Guillermo Rein and Matt Bonner
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May 07, 2025 |
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199 - Commercial Timber Guidebook with Danny Hopkin and Luis Gonzalez Avila
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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198 - Waste and recycling fires and how to fight them with Ryan Fogelman
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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197 - Fire spread through external walls pt. 2 with FSRI
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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196 - Fire spread through external walls pt. 1 with FSRI
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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195 - Fire Safety Cases with Chris Mayfield and Martyn Ramsden
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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194 - Playing with batteries with Xinyan Huang
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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193 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 15 - Extinguishing systems with Bogdan Racięga
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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192 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 14 - Jet fan systems for car parks
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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191 - Committee participation with Birgitte Messerschmidt and Kees Both
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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190 - Car park fires review with Zahir
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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189 - Simple things that work
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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188 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 13 - Porous solid fuels
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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187 - Smouldering of preserved timber with Wenxuan Wu
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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186 - Egressibility: a paradigm shift in evacuation research with Enrico Ronchi
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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185 - Recap on wildfire science
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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184 - Cost-benefit analysis in structural fire safety with Thomas Gernay and Chenzi Ma
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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183 - Innovation and fire safety with Vincent Brannigan
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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182 - Bias in fire research
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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181 - Regulatory regimes with Vincent Brannigan
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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180 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 12 - Pressurization systems
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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179 - Assurance in fire safety with Abhishek Chhabra
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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178 - Origin stories of fire prevention and firefighting with Michał Stachowicz
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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177 - Physics-Based Modelling of Fire Spread with Francesco Restuccia
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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176 - The Myth of Panic with Daniel Nilsson
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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175 - Changes in the UK fire regulations with Dame Judith Hackitt
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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174 - My predictions for AI in fire
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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173 - Pathway to scalable fire CFD
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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172 - Lessons from mass timber experiments with Danny Hopkin
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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171 - Exploring Water Mist Systems with Max Lakkonen
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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170 - Integrating Fire Safety and Security Objectives with Stewe Gwynne and Aoife Hunt
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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169 - Engineering car parks for EV's with Ali Ashrafi and Pawel Woelke
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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168 - Fires in Waste Industry with Ragni Fjellgaard Mikalsen
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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167 - CFD for consequences and fire growth with Jonathan Hodges
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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166 - Bio-based insulation with Patrick Sudhoff
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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165 - Best Practice vs. Appropriate Practice with Arnold Dix
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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164 - Experiences with AI with Xinyan Huang
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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163 - Fire Fundamentals pt 11 - Soot in Fire Safety Engineering
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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162 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 9 - Jin's experiment on visibility in smoke
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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161 - Community evacuation with Enrico Ronchi and Max Kinateder
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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160 - Fire Fundamentals pt 10 - Flame Spread with David Morrisset
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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159 - The WUI Problem with Michele Steinberg and Birgitte Messerschmidt
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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158 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 9 - Know your boundaries (in CFD)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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157 - Revising Critical Velocity with Conrad Stacey and Michael Beyer
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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156 - Trigger Boundaries with Harry Mitchell and Nick Kalogeropoulos
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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155 - New Guideline for PV Fire Safety with Grunde Jomaas
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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154 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 8 - Compartment Fire
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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404 - Short technical break
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May 29, 2024 |
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153 - Fire Safety Engineer of the Future is a Great Communicator
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May 21, 2024 |
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152 - Why we need good standards with Björn Sundström
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May 15, 2024 |
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151 - Elevator evacuation with Axel Mossberg
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May 08, 2024 |
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150 - Wind Turbine Fires with Guillermo Rein
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May 01, 2024 |
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149 - CROSS UK with Neil Gibbins and Peter Wilkinson
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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148 - Building Integrated Photovoltaics with Reidar Stølen
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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147 - Wildfire Industrial Interface and risk assessment with Eulàlia Planas
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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146 - Take care of your mental health with Ann Jeffers
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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145 - Fire Safety Engineering in South Africa and Beyond with Richard Walls
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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144 - Design fire generator with Greg Baker
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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143 - Fire Fundamentals pt 7 - CFD simulations of fires
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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142 - Uncertainty in fire measurements with David Morrisset
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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141 - Smouldering in Mass Timber with Harry Mitchell
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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140 - Development and implementation of the SBI test with Rudolf van Mierlo
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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139 - Wind and Fire Interactions for Safer Open Car Park Design
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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138 - Getting ready for the Wildfires in Northern Europe with Nieves Fernandez-Anez
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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137 - e-mobility fires with Adam Barowy
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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136 - Fire Fundamentals pt 6 - The fire automation in a building
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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135 - Contemplating a design fire for car parks
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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134 - Fire Fundamentals pt 5 - The Evacuation Equation with David Purser
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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QA6 - Reflecting on 2023 and Igniting the Future
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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133: Managing EV Fires at Sea with Elena Funk and Magnus Arvidson
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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132 - Dis-abling buildings - fire safety features from wheelchair user perspective with Mary Button
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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131 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 8 - Modelling Cardington Fire Tests with Asif Usmani
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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130 - Mass timber fire dynamics with Dr. Carmen Górska
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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129 - Backdraught and Underventilated Fires with Dr. Ricky Carvel
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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128 - Fire Safety Engineering with Dr. Ricky Carvel
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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127 Introducing the Book of Fire: An Online Resource Hub for Fire Engineers
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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126 - Where is the challenge with tunnel smoke control? with Wojciech
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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125 - Enhancing Fire Safety Through Data: EU FireStat Project with Martina Manes and Mohamad El Houssami
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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124 - Advancements in Fire Safety of Facades with Eleni Asimakopoulou
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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123 - Futureproofing fire safety systems with Jaime Cadena Gomez
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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122 - Compartment Fire Behaviour Training with Shan Raffel, CFBT Roy and Szymon Kokot
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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121 - Revolutionizing Civil Engineering Through AI with MZ Nasser
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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120 - How we have designed a fire safe green wall
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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119 - Different scales needed to model fires with Lukas Arnold
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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118 - Different batteries different challanges with Francesco Restuccia
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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117 - Global wildfire emergency and the key role of FSEs with Albert Simeoni
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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116 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 4 - Natural and Powered Smoke Vents with Wojciech
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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115 - Update on the (near) future of fire engineers toolbox with Bryan Klein
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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114 - Ventilation and fire flow paths with Craig Weinschenk
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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113 - Exploring Maritime Fire Safety with Bogdan Racięga
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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112 - Fire Safety for Energy Storage Systems with Ali Ashrafi and Paweł Woelke
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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111 - Experiments that will change fire science pt. 7 - CodeRed with Panos Kotsovinos
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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110 - NIST Fire Calorimetry Database with Matt Bundy
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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109 - Forensic Fire Science with Richard Roby
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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QA5 - Brainstorming fire safe Mars habitats with Ruben van Coile, Jaime Cadena Gomez and Szymek Matkowski
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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107 - Visualization in fires with Matt Hoehler
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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106 - Chemistry of smoke - Nitrogen, retardants and cancirogens with David Purser
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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105 - How much smoke is made in fires and how we measure that? with David Purser
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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104 - Experiments that will change fire science pt. 6 - MaCFP with Arnaud Trouve
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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103 - The Science and Art of Scale Modeling with James Quintiere
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May 31, 2023 |
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102 - Fire Safe Design Competent Architect with Michael Woodrow
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May 24, 2023 |
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101 - The Society of Fire Protection Engineers with Chris Jeleniewicz
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May 17, 2023 |
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100 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 3 - Smoke plumes (and other flow phenomena) with Wojciech
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May 10, 2023 |
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099 - Electric vehicle fires in tunnels with Peter Sturm
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May 03, 2023 |
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QA4 - Wojciech in Smart Firefighting podcast episode 151 - fire science, innovation and built environment
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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098 - Digital innovation in built environment with Michael Strömgren
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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097 - Smoke toxicity (Part 2) Asphyxiants and irritants with David Purser
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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096 - Smoke toxicity (Part 1) Why fires used to be less toxic in 1950's? with David Purser
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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095 - An AI supported Fire Safety Engineer with Michael Kinsey
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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094 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 5 - Compartment fires at NBS with James Quintiere
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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093 - The story of the golden era for the US fire science with James Quintiere
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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092 - European Commission view on Performance Based FSE with Adamantia Athanasopoulou
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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091 - Fire fundamentals pt 2 - Ignition with Rory Hadden
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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QA3 - Some Polish experiences with a year of war in Ukraine (interviewed by Arnold Dix)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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090 - Objective driven suppression system for Swedish tunnels with Ulf Lundström
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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089 - Designing law by disasters (or not?) with Birgitte Messerschmidt
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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088 - Modeling fires of natural fuels with Eric Mueller
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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087 - Structural FSE inspired by earthquake engineering with Negar Elhami Khorasani
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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086 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 4 - Runnehamar tunnel with Haukur Ingason and Anders Lönnermark
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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085 - E-mobility and energy storage hazards with Adam Barowy
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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QA#2 - Turning podcast professional and the outcomes of the listener experience survey
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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084 - Industry lead research with Steve Gwynne and Mike Spearpoint
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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083 - Fire fundamentals pt 1 - Combustion and flame with Rory Hadden
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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082 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 3 - WTC Investigation with Kevin McGrattan
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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081 - The origins of FDS with Kevin McGrattan
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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080 - Adaptive Fire Testing: A new foundation stone for fire safety (ERC StG Grant) with Ruben van Coile
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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079 - Timber columns failure in the decay phase with Thomas Gernay and Jochen Zehfuss
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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QA#1 - November 2022
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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078 - Experiments that Changed Fire Science pt. 2 - BRE Cardington with Tom Lennon
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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077 - Informal settlements - we need solutions not gadgets, Richard Walls
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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076 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 1 - Dalmarnock Fire Tests Round Robin study with Guillermo Rein and Wolfram Jahn
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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075 - Spacecraft fire safety with David Urban
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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074 - Engineering not magic, intumescent coatings with Andrea Lucherini
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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073 - Smoke control in shopping malls - uncommon aspects that make or break the system
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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072 - Extracting the secret of IMFSE from Bart Merci and Eulalia Planas
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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071 - Risk as a tool for thinking with Ruben van Coile
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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070 - Fire resistance is whatever you want it to be with Piotr Turkowski
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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069 - Challenging fires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) with Michael Gollner
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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068 - Human walking speed and factors that influence it with John Gales
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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067 - Next-gen smoke control experimental facility and a digital twin with Grzegorz Krajewski
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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066 - Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings with Andy Buchanan
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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065 - Understanding mesh sensitivity and model uncertainties with Jason Floyd
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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064 - Heat stress in fires - from inside and outside with Denise Smith and Gavin Horn
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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063 - Why do we need a handbook of fire and the environment with Brian Meacham and Margaret McNamee
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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062 - BIM (not only for fire) with Peter Thompson and Rino Lovreglio
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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061 - Glazing in fire with Yu Wang
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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060 - How PV panels change the fire behaviour of roofs with Jens Kristensen
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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059 - Residential fire safety with Dan Madrzykowski and Charlie Fleischmann
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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058 - Animal pyrocognition - a path to undestand our beginnings with fire with Ivo Jacobs
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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057 - Structural fire engineering with Thomas Gernay
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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056 - Performance Based Fire Protection Engineer with David Stacy
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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055 - The future is exciting with Arnold Dix (part 2)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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054 - The sustainability talk, tunnels and fire safety with Arnold Dix (part 1)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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053 - The number one skill to thrive as an FSE I've learnt in 1 year of podcasting
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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404 - Host not found, throat infections suck.
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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052 - More realism in evacuation modelling with Anne Templeton
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May 25, 2022 |
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051 - Fire Science in eyes of a firefighter with Szymon Kokot
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May 18, 2022 |
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050 - Wind, fire and a surprise
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May 11, 2022 |
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049 - What burns inside a battery with Francesco Restuccia
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May 04, 2022 |
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048 - Car parks, design fires and the broad world of fire science with Mike Spearpoint
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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047 - Effective pressurization of compartments with Grzegorz Sypek
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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046 - Fire Code Tech crossover with Gus Gagliardi
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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045 - Foundations of fire safety with Ruben van Coile and Danny Hopkin
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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044 - Improving fire safety of battery systems with Ofodike Ezekoye
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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043 - Some neglected areas in fire science with Vyto Babrauskas
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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042 - Unsafe environment of post fire scenes with Gavin Horn
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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041 - Sprinkler and safety systems reliability with Arnstein Fedoy
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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040 - Resilient road tunnel infrastructure with Ingo Riess
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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039 - The (near) future of modelling with a tool developer Bryan Klein
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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038 - Fire resistance is not always enough for timber with Daniel Brandon
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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037 - Human behavior misconceptions that lead to (mis)modelling with Enrico Ronchi
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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036 - Researching fire with firefighters - UL FSRI: Steve Kerber and Craig Weinschenk
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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035 - Fire safety as cornerstone of sustainability with Margaret McNamee
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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034 - Fire safety as a human right, not a privilege with Danielle Antonellis
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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033 - Science, theatre or engineering? Polish take on hot smoke test with Piotr Smardz and Janusz Paliszek
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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032 - Closing the year with a look back on 2021 and forward to the future!
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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031 - Suppressing tunnel fires with water mist with Johny Jessen
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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030 - Visibility Prediction Framework with Lukas Arnold
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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029 -Busses, flammability and an unknown force holding good solutions back... with Anja Hofmann-Böllinghaus
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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028 - Easy entry into the world of AI in fire with MZ Naser
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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027 - Travelling fires with Guillermo Rein
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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026 - Field report from IWMA conference in Warsaw
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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025 - Structural fire engineering with engineered timber with Felix Wiesner
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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024 - Who's a Fire Safety Engineer with Jimmy Jönsson
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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023 - Risk assessment with Maximum Allowable Damage with Jaime Cadena Gomez and David Lange
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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022 - Combustion, fluid mechanics and fire safety engineering with Michael Gollner
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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021 - Resilient design for firefighter safety with Ali Ashrafi
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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020 - Fire Safety Engineering as a socio-technical system with Brian Meacham
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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019 - Modelling human behaviour in wildfire evacuation with Erica Kuligowski
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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018 - Engineered timber with Danny Hopkin
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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017 - Pyrolife - from fire resistance to fire resilience with Cathelijne Stoof
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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016 - The future of evacuation modelling with Enrico Ronchi and Ruggiero Lovreglio
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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015 - Global view on the fire safety from a starchitect perpective with Benjamin Ralph
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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014 - A joyrney through the scales of fire phenomena with Sara McAllister
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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013 - On the use and abuse of CFD in fire engineering with Wolfram Jahn
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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012 - Science, Industry, Legislators. How do we make them work together on a fire safe world? - Kees Both
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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011 - Why temperature is so easy to measure but so hard to interpret?
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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010 - Seeking the origins of standardized fire testing and ancient fire protection materials with John Gales
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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009 - Cognitive biases and decision making in evacuation with Michael Kinsey
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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008 - Zone modelling is not dead with Colleen Wade
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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007 - AI in smart firefighting and the future of FSE PBD with Xinyan Huang
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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006 - EV's, rapid fires and car parks
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Battery fires with Roeland Bisschop
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Facade fires and AI with Matt Bonner
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Introduction
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Smouldering megafires with Guillermo Rein
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Tenability criteria with Gabriele Vigne
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Trailer - Fire Science Show
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May 24, 2021 |