016 - The future of evacuation modelling with Enrico Ronchi and Ruggiero Lovreglio
Evacuation modelling is paramount in accounting for the human aspect in our fire modelling. But how is it developing? Where are we with our tools, and where are we heading with them? What are the most...
1 Sep 20211h 14min
015 - Global view on the fire safety from a starchitect perpective with Benjamin Ralph
Have you ever wondered who truly has the most power over the fire safety of a building? In my opinion, the answer is very simple - the Architect. This is due to two reasons. First is that the architec...
25 Aug 202155min
014 - A joyrney through the scales of fire phenomena with Sara McAllister
Have you ever wondered how is a fire of a match or candle different from a wildfire? Or maybe rather, why is it different? What is it, that makes the fires at different scales behave in such a differe...
18 Aug 20211h 1min
013 - On the use and abuse of CFD in fire engineering with Wolfram Jahn
We are living in a kind of weird time, where the most complex tool we have is at the same time the most commonly used (and abused one). The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling has brought us ...
11 Aug 20211h 6min
012 - Science, Industry, Legislators. How do we make them work together on a fire safe world? - Kees Both
In this episode, I had the pleasure and privilege to host dr Kees Both, the Technical Manager of Standards & Regulations in Etexgroup. Kees wanted to become a suspension bridge engineer, but his route...
4 Aug 20211h 14min
011 - Why temperature is so easy to measure but so hard to interpret?
What is the single most measured thing in fire science? The answer is easy - temperature. We use it everywhere - from learning material properties in TGA's to expressing conditions in compartment fire...
28 Jul 202143min
010 - Seeking the origins of standardized fire testing and ancient fire protection materials with John Gales
Did you know that the standard temperature-time curve, which is the underpinning of the fire resistance of assemblies, is over 100 years old? Once you know that, you cannot stop but think about how th...
21 Jul 202156min
009 - Cognitive biases and decision making in evacuation with Michael Kinsey
Why do we take certain decisions during an evacuation process? How do we choose the evacuation route? These are often affected by cognitive biases, which is the main theme of today's episode. With Dr ...
13 Jul 20211h 8min
