048 - Car parks, design fires and the broad world of fire science with Mike Spearpoint
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, ...
27 Apr 20221h 14min
047 - Effective pressurization of compartments with Grzegorz Sypek
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 ...
20 Apr 202255min
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 r...
12 Apr 202246min
045 - Foundations of fire safety with Ruben van Coile and Danny Hopkin
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 wai...
6 Apr 202258min
044 - Improving fire safety of battery systems with Ofodike Ezekoye
Since Episode 6, the fire safety of battery systems was not very much visible in the show - a good time to change that! And we do this with a true legend of fire safety - Ofodike Ezekoye. In the last...
30 Mar 202258min
043 - Some neglected areas in fire science with Vyto Babrauskas
It is always a pleasure to interview a true legend of fire safety. And when the topic of the interview is their thoughts on neglected areas of our discipline, based on almost five decades of experienc...
23 Mar 20221h 12min
042 - Unsafe environment of post fire scenes with Gavin Horn
We all understand the dangers of smoke inhalation in fires. But what about the site of the fire a few days after it was put out? It looks clean, maybe even lost the smell... Is it something to worry a...
16 Mar 20221h
041 - Sprinkler and safety systems reliability with Arnstein Fedoy
How reliable are sprinkler systems? Is it 100%? Is it 95%? Maybe it is 88%... actually, whatever the number is, do we truly understand what does it represent? What does it mean that a sprinkler has su...
9 Mar 202250min
