Fire Science, Engineering And Education Episodes
The current hot-topics in fire science and engineering
July 19, 2023
110 - NIST Fire Calorimetry Database with Matt Bundy
Ever wonder how scientists measure the intensity of a fire? Join us on this episode as we invite Dr. Matt Bundy from NIST. We discuss the intricacies of heat release rate, calorimetry, and how NIST is championing open data wi...
July 12, 2023
109 - Forensic Fire Science with Richard Roby
In this episode, we uncover the intricate process of fire investigations with renowned combustion scientist and fire investigator, Dr. Richard J. Roby from Combustion Science and Engineering. With over five decades of experie...
June 7, 2023
104 - Experiments that will change fire science pt. 6 - MaCFP with Arnaud Trouve
What makes an experiment truly groundbreaking, and how can researchers plan and execute such experiments in fire science? Join us as we chat with Professor Arnaud Trouve from the University of Maryland, a co-chair of the MaCF...
May 24, 2023
102 - Fire Safe Design Competent Architect with Michael Woodrow
We all agree competencies are key to fire safety. We have discussed this. We have argued about this. We have come up with decent sets of core competencies, course curricula and numerous courses and modules that help us be com...
May 17, 2023
101 - The Society of Fire Protection Engineers with Chris Jeleniewicz
What is the Society of Fire Protection Engineers? I just got a really good answer from the Interim CEO Chris Jeleniwicz. It is our profession. It is us. With this important definition sorted, we dig into what SFPE is doing (a...
April 12, 2023
097 - Smoke toxicity (Part 2) Asphyxiants and irritants with David Purser
This episode is the 2nd part of interview with Professor David Purser, this year recipient of IAFSS'14 Emmons Plenary Lecture. If you have not seen it, I would highly encourage you to first listen to the Part 1 , which sets t...
March 29, 2023
095 - An AI supported Fire Safety Engineer with Michael Kinsey
It is the newest Internet craze. In my opinion, maybe even be the most disruptive tech since bitcoin or the Internet itself. And suddenly, we got a lot of very interesting conversations around, but I've lacked on oriented on ...
March 14, 2023
093 - The story of the golden era for the US fire science with James Quintiere
It's finally here, the episode many of you were waiting for! Discussing the history of US fire movement with prof. James Quintiere from the University of Maryland. I often wondered what it felt like in the 1970's and 80's whe...
March 7, 2023
092 - European Commission view on Performance Based FSE with Adamantia Athanasopoulou
It seems we will not have EU Fire Code for at least a few more decades... Why is that? Because the people in power found out that it is not the most efficient thing to do it right now. And they found it through the power of r...
Jan. 11, 2023
084 - Industry lead research with Steve Gwynne and Mike Spearpoint
In my first episode, I mentioned that I'm doing this podcast to preserve some amazing conversations and share them with a larger audience, as sometimes it is a huge waste of interesting thoughts that remain just between the f...
Dec. 21, 2022
081 - The origins of FDS with Kevin McGrattan
Has it ever crossed your mind how would our discipline look like, if we did not have Fire Dynamics Simulator? Maybe you had an opportunity to discuss CFD with colleagues from other disciplines, to find their faces in shock an...
Nov. 9, 2022
075 - Spacecraft fire safety with David Urban
Dear Terrestial Fire Engineers, let me take you on a journey that will make you experience fire engineering like nothing on our planet. Because in fact, it is the fire engineering of spacecraft for their operations in a zero-...
Nov. 2, 2022
074 - Engineering not magic, intumescent coatings with Andrea Lucherini
Intumescent coatings are not magic. They are a product of amazing engineering, a theatre of thermophysical properties that create an insulative layer that sometimes is the only thing holding fire from destroying a structure. ...
Oct. 26, 2022
073 - Smoke control in shopping malls - uncommon aspects that make or break the system
Long before I started the podcast, my bread and butter was to find clever ways to remove smoke from shopping malls. Actually, I like to believe I was pretty good at the job, given the fact some of the biggest projects in East...
Oct. 19, 2022
072 - Extracting the secret of IMFSE from Bart Merci and Eulalia Planas
Many creators will not agree, but in some cases, copying is the highest form of admiration. And there are things in Fire Safety Engineering that are more than worthy of being copied. One of them is the famous International Ma...
Oct. 5, 2022
070 - Fire resistance is whatever you want it to be with Piotr Turkowski
Today we talk fire resistance, but unlike you have ever heard. Join me and Dr Piotr Turkowski - two fire laboratory professionals in an honest discussion about their craft. The challenges in standardization and committee work...
Sept. 28, 2022
069 - Challenging fires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) with Michael Gollner
Why so many researchers are spending their time tackling fire issues at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)? What is so challenging about this? We always lived near nature, why today this emerges as one of the 'hottest' topics...
Aug. 2, 2022
061 - Glazing in fire with Yu Wang
The relation between ventilation conditions and fire severity is quite a fundamental one. You don't even have to be a fire safety engineer to realize that more air means a bigger fire. But how does air get into the compartmen...
July 13, 2022
058 - Animal pyrocognition - a path to undestand our beginnings with fire with Ivo Jacobs
Have you wondered how fire science started? But I mean the real real start... not 1666 one, nor the one when we've started to build furnaces... The start when the first evolutionary ancestor of homo sapiens figured out this w...
July 6, 2022
057 - Structural fire engineering with Thomas Gernay
The subject of structural fire engineering was long overdue in the podcast schedule. But once I finally got it on my agenda, I made sure to interview one of the very best there are - prof Thomas Gernay of John Hopkins Univer...
June 29, 2022
056 - Performance Based Fire Protection Engineer with David Stacy
How does being a volunteer firefighter improve your abilities to do Performance-Based Design (PBD) and how your knowledge in PBD may translate to firefighting? That is not a question you can ask to every fire protection engin...
June 8, 2022
053 - The number one skill to thrive as an FSE I've learnt in 1 year of podcasting
It has been one year since I started this show. I've promised you that we will learn Fire Safety Engineering together, and today comes a great time to reflect on some lessons learnt. In this episode, I will take you on a shor...
May 18, 2022
051 - Fire Science in eyes of a firefighter with Szymon Kokot
In this show, we often discuss how fire science can help firefighters. Today we drop the UNO reverse card and figure out what firefighters actually need from fire science. And for that, I've got a perfect person to talk to - ...
April 12, 2022
046 - Fire Code Tech crossover with Gus Gagliardi
This week we do something funny - a crossover episode with the host of the Fire Code Tech podcast - Gus Gagliardi. We end up discussing the paths of fire safety engineers, from school to specialized roles in engineering compa...