Risk, Performance Based Engineering And Modelling Episodes
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 …
090 - Objective driven suppression system for Swedish tunnels with Ulf Lundström
Feb. 22, 2023
If you want to design a suppression system for a certain application, you have a lot of technical solutions to choose from and most likely a handful of codes to follow. It seems pretty straightforward for most applications, …
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,…
087 - Structural FSE inspired by earthquake engineering with Negar Elhami Khorasani
Feb. 1, 2023
Performance-based engineering or the use of probabilistic methods in building design are not inventions of Fire Safety Engineering. But we sometimes tend to act like we need to 'discover' and work out everything on our own. …
082 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 3 - WTC Investigation with Kevin McGrattan
Dec. 28, 2022
Fire science is often accelerated by tragedies. The same goes for the tools we are using and the methods we know. In the early 2000's we already had some great tools, in fact, it was the era where the paradigm of fire modell…
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…
076 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 1 - Dalmarnock Fire Tests Round Robin study with Guillermo Rein and Wolfram Jahn
Nov. 16, 2022
Welcome to a mini-series of episodes on experiments that changed fire science. In the first episode, we cover the a prioiri and posteriori modelling task within the Dalmarnock Fire Experiments programme carried out by the BR…
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…
071 - Risk as a tool for thinking with Ruben van Coile
Oct. 12, 2022
When thinking about 'risk' do you view it as a tool? I usually thought about it as a concept or maybe as a measure of 'how safe my building is?', but I have not really appreciated how beneficial it might be when used in such…
067 - Next-gen smoke control experimental facility and a digital twin with Grzegorz Krajewski
Sept. 14, 2022
We've felt a bit awkward about how FSE handles smoke control in corridors. If you look closely into common practices, they rarely do include impressive engineering - more often you see some 'tips and tricks' that make the CF…
065 - Understanding mesh sensitivity and model uncertainties with Jason Floyd
Aug. 31, 2022
Will a higher resolution mesh make my CFD more accurate? That is a harmless question, and most of us would tend toward 'I guess yeah'. But let us try and unpack this. Into atoms! What does higher resolution mean? How exactly…
062 - BIM (not only for fire) with Peter Thompson and Rino Lovreglio
Aug. 10, 2022
It does not matter if you hate or love BIM, does not matter if you use it daily or have no idea what it is... Building Information Modelling will be an important part of our engineering future and we better get used to it. …
056 - Performance Based Fire Protection Engineer with David Stacy
June 29, 2022
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 engi…
047 - Effective pressurization of compartments with Grzegorz Sypek
April 20, 2022
Pressurization is a common strategy for protecting spaces against the infiltration of smoke. However, the solution has a kind-of bad press as "not-working" or "incapable to meet its design goals". We know, that the systems a…
045 - Foundations of fire safety with Ruben van Coile and Danny Hopkin
April 6, 2022
How does one decide when a building is fire safe? That is a real hell of a question to answer! Is it when no harm can occur? But such a condition can never be fulfilled... there is always a meteor waiting around the corner t…