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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 …
096 - Smoke toxicity (Part 1) Why fires used to be less toxic in 1950's? with David Purser
April 5, 2023
I have to start with a word of warning, I am extremally hyped about this and upcoming episodes. I think for the first time I have recorded a podcast episode with a ratio of my commentary to the guest 1:5. This is because whe…
094 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 5 - Compartment fires at NBS with James Quintiere
March 22, 2023
In the fifth episode of mini-series 'Experiments that changed fire science' we cover the compartment fire experimental campaigns carried at NBS (now NIST) in 1970's and 1980's, with the maybe most famous of them all - the St…
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…
089 - Designing law by disasters (or not?) with Birgitte Messerschmidt
Feb. 15, 2023
There is no universal answer to the question of how law and testing regimes should be set up. Sometimes, we build up our law after a huge tragedy, making sure that the same cause will not be of harm in the future. Sometimes,…
085 - E-mobility and energy storage hazards with Adam Barowy
Jan. 18, 2023
Three months ago I saw a video of some sort of an electric scooter going off in someone's residential building. That person had absolutely no chance of controlling that fire. I guess they have escaped, but it must have been …
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…
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…
059 - Residential fire safety with Dan Madrzykowski and Charlie Fleischmann
July 20, 2022
How much the fire scene at households has changed over the last 30 years? Why modern furniture burns worse than one made with wood, cotton and other natural materials? And what does that mean to firefighting? What challenges…
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 …
055 - The future is exciting with Arnold Dix (part 2)
June 22, 2022
I once said the future looks stupid... but after this discussion with Arnold Dix, I know - future is exciting. And for Fire Safety Engineers and others involved in fire protection - the future seems to be super exciting! In …
054 - The sustainability talk, tunnels and fire safety with Arnold Dix (part 1)
June 15, 2022
A few episodes ago I called for better communication in fire safety. And in this episode, tunnel fire safety legend Prof. Arnold Dix is answering that, by teaching us the ways of the 'sustainability' talk - how to communicat…
050 - Wind, fire and a surprise
May 11, 2022
Episode 50! Time to celebrate, and for this one we have a surprise. A mysterious host takes over the show to interview a wind and fire modelling celebrity... Ok, this should be enough to not reveal everything once the show n…