2022 Highlights Episodes
070 - Fire resistance is whatever you want it to be with Piotr Turkowski
Oct. 5, 2022
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 wor…
066 - Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings with Andy Buchanan
Sept. 7, 2022
I wonder if we will be ever able to say: we know exactly how to build fire-safe buildings with mass timber. However that day may never come, each day of research brings us a little bit closer to achieving this goal. And som…
064 - Heat stress in fires - from inside and outside with Denise Smith and Gavin Horn
Aug. 24, 2022
This amount of heat flux for this amount of time, routine conditions, check, done. This is how I used to do my engineering and tenability assessment related to heat stress... up till today when prof Denisse Smith and prof Ga…
048 - Car parks, design fires and the broad world of fire science with Mike Spearpoint
April 27, 2022
Did you know first car parks were built for electric vehicles? Or what clever techniques can be used to model the spread of fire between vehicles? Or what challenges scientists meet burning vehicles, and why pneumatic suspen…
038 - Fire resistance is not always enough for timber with Daniel Brandon
Feb. 15, 2022
It is the third time we talk about mass timber and fire in this show, and I hope every time the message gets even more refined. In this episode, it is clear - fire resistance is not always enough. But why? You will learn tha…