Fire Science, Engineering And Education Episodes
097 - Smoke toxicity (Part 2) Asphyxiants and irritants with David Purser
April 12, 2023
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 …
095 - An AI supported Fire Safety Engineer with Michael Kinsey
March 29, 2023
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…
093 - The story of the golden era for the US fire science with James Quintiere
March 14, 2023
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 wh…
092 - European Commission view on Performance Based FSE with Adamantia Athanasopoulou
March 7, 2023
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 …
084 - Industry lead research with Steve Gwynne and Mike Spearpoint
Jan. 11, 2023
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 …
081 - The origins of FDS with Kevin McGrattan
Dec. 21, 2022
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 a…
075 - Spacecraft fire safety with David Urban
Nov. 9, 2022
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…
074 - Engineering not magic, intumescent coatings with Andrea Lucherini
Nov. 2, 2022
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.…
073 - Smoke control in shopping malls - uncommon aspects that make or break the system
Oct. 26, 2022
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 Eas…
072 - Extracting the secret of IMFSE from Bart Merci and Eulalia Planas
Oct. 19, 2022
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 M…
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…
069 - Challenging fires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) with Michael Gollner
Sept. 28, 2022
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' topic…
061 - Glazing in fire with Yu Wang
Aug. 2, 2022
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 compartme…
058 - Animal pyrocognition - a path to undestand our beginnings with fire with Ivo Jacobs
July 13, 2022
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 …
057 - Structural fire engineering with Thomas Gernay
July 6, 2022
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 Unive…