061 - Glazing in fire with Yu Wang
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 ai...
2 Aug 202247min
060 - How PV panels change the fire behaviour of roofs with Jens Kristensen
[March 2023 update] The Thesis PDF is finally available! Check it here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369141515_Fire_risk_associated_with_photovoltaic_installations_on_flat_roof_constructio...
27 Juli 202243min
059 - Residential fire safety with Dan Madrzykowski and Charlie Fleischmann
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 firef...
20 Juli 202255min
058 - Animal pyrocognition - a path to undestand our beginnings with fire with Ivo Jacobs
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 s...
13 Juli 202229min
057 - Structural fire engineering with Thomas Gernay
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 Gern...
6 Juli 202253min
056 - Performance Based Fire Protection Engineer with David Stacy
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 ev...
29 Juni 202254min
055 - The future is exciting with Arnold Dix (part 2)
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 t...
22 Juni 202258min
054 - The sustainability talk, tunnels and fire safety with Arnold Dix (part 1)
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' ...
15 Juni 202254min
