Fire Science Show
Episodes
055 - The future is exciting with Arnold Dix (part 2)
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 other...
054 - The sustainability talk, tunnels and fire safety with Arnold Dix (part 1)
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
053 - The number one skill to thrive as an FSE I've learnt in 1 year of podcasting
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It has been one year since I started this show. I've promised you that we will learn Fire Safety Engineering together, and today comes a great ti...
404 - Host not found, throat infections suck.
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With this lifestyle, this was inevitable... due to a busy week I had to move the schedule a bit and was pretty sure I will get away with it by recordi...
052 - More realism in evacuation modelling with Anne Templeton
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You have seen these lovely evacuation simulations, the ones with a bunch of agents moving together or clumping at an exit. Ones that we use to determi...
051 - Fire Science in eyes of a firefighter with Szymon Kokot
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this show, we often discuss how fire science can help firefighters. Today we drop the UNO reverse card and figure out what firefighters actually ne...
050 - Wind, fire and a surprise
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 celeb...
049 - What burns inside a battery with Francesco Restuccia
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So we all know batteries burn... but do we know what exactly does burn? What is inside this tiny metal cylinder that scares so many of us? We try to u...
048 - Car parks, design fires and the broad world of fire science with Mike Spearpoint
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
047 - Effective pressurization of compartments with Grzegorz Sypek
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pressurization is a common strategy for protecting spaces against the infiltration of smoke. However, the solution has a kind-of bad press as "no...
046 - Fire Code Tech crossover with Gus Gagliardi
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
045 - Foundations of fire safety with Ruben van Coile and Danny Hopkin
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
044 - Improving fire safety of battery systems with Ofodike Ezekoye
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
043 - Some neglected areas in fire science with Vyto Babrauskas
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 dis...
042 - Unsafe environment of post fire scenes with Gavin Horn
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
041 - Sprinkler and safety systems reliability with Arnstein Fedoy
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 re...
040 - Resilient road tunnel infrastructure with Ingo Riess
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week I've invited a guest, that I was looking to talk to for a good while... Dr Ingo Riess from Riess Ingenieur-GmbH is someone I look up to...
039 - The (near) future of modelling with a tool developer Bryan Klein
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the future hold? Probably no one knows. But what happens in near future with some of the most popular tools used by the FSE community? That ...
038 - Fire resistance is not always enough for timber with Daniel Brandon
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is the third time we talk about mass timber and fire in this show, and I hope every time the message gets even more refined. In this episode, it is...
037 - Human behavior misconceptions that lead to (mis)modelling with Enrico Ronchi
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you were investigating phenomena and built your whole narrative around a flawed and debunked concept, would that get published? Would that get cite...
036 - Researching fire with firefighters - UL FSRI: Steve Kerber and Craig Weinschenk
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I was really happy to host two amazing researchers from UL FSRI - Dr Steve Kerber, the VP of Underwriter Laboratories and Director of ...
035 - Fire safety as cornerstone of sustainability with Margaret McNamee
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Building a fire-safe future is not an easy task. Including sustainability in that build, is even harder. But how hard is it to include fire safety in ...
034 - Fire safety as a human right, not a privilege with Danielle Antonellis
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are topics in fire science that gain more attention than others. Timber in fire. Batteries. Facades. They are novel, complex, challenging and ye...
033 - Science, theatre or engineering? Polish take on hot smoke test with Piotr Smardz and Janusz Paliszek
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard about the hot smoke testing approach? If you had, there is a great chance you have not heard anything positive about it... From ou...
032 - Closing the year with a look back on 2021 and forward to the future!
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the final episode of this year! I hope you all had a great year. For me, it was probably the most challenging, and the most rewarding year ...
031 - Suppressing tunnel fires with water mist with Johny Jessen
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can water mist be used in tunnels? I wondered that for a long time, and with every tunnel project, many questions around this issue were piling in my ...
030 - Visibility Prediction Framework with Lukas Arnold
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you ever had anything to do with Fire Safety Engineering, you have most likely touched the visibility in smoke. What's an easier way to explai...
029 -Busses, flammability and an unknown force holding good solutions back... with Anja Hofmann-Böllinghaus
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is not a fun episode. It starts with a tragedy, that fueled a whole field of research. Continues into disbelief, that one aspect of fire safety c...
028 - Easy entry into the world of AI in fire with MZ Naser
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been fascinated by the capabilities of AI? Did you wonder how the heck can an algorithm beat humans in repetitive tasks? Or make multi-l...
027 - Travelling fires with Guillermo Rein
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you have ever learned about the compartment fire dynamics framework, have tried zone modelling or any kind of fire modelling, you have probably not...
026 - Field report from IWMA conference in Warsaw
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the courtesy of the International Water Mist Association I have been invited to the recent conference held in Warsaw. The conference was a t...
025 - Structural fire engineering with engineered timber with Felix Wiesner
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 18 we have touched on the important topic of fire performance of engineered wood and its wide use in the modern built environment. Today,...
024 - Who's a Fire Safety Engineer with Jimmy Jönsson
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who is a Fire Safety Engineer? And when do you become one? How do you know the person on the other side of the table at the project meeting has the ne...
023 - Risk assessment with Maximum Allowable Damage with Jaime Cadena Gomez and David Lange
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Risk as a concept is well established in modern Performance-Based Design in Fire Safety Engineering. However, it comes in many flavours - from a simpl...
022 - Combustion, fluid mechanics and fire safety engineering with Michael Gollner
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
https://firelab.berkeley.edu/ this is the place you need to go!Ignition at different slope angles. Firebrand spotting. Fire whirls. What does connect ...
021 - Resilient design for firefighter safety with Ali Ashrafi
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is hard for us, fire safety engineers, to talk to firefighters on how to do their job... Probably we even shouldn't, as we have no idea how it...
020 - Fire Safety Engineering as a socio-technical system with Brian Meacham
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you sometimes feel that fire safety engineering is not making a footprint as it should? With all our knowledge, models, technology...why do huge fi...
019 - Modelling human behaviour in wildfire evacuation with Erica Kuligowski
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is plenty of fire engineers who think they are modelling human behaviour... Some claim they can do it... And there is very, very few who actuall...
018 - Engineered timber with Danny Hopkin
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Engineered timber is on a trajectory to become the construction material of the future. However, on that pathway there stands the fire issue. Wood bur...
017 - Pyrolife - from fire resistance to fire resilience with Cathelijne Stoof
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When you think about battling wildfires, what is the image you see in front of your eyes? Probably an air tanker (at least that was what I saw...). Af...
016 - The future of evacuation modelling with Enrico Ronchi and Ruggiero Lovreglio
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
015 - Global view on the fire safety from a starchitect perpective with Benjamin Ralph
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
014 - A joyrney through the scales of fire phenomena with Sara McAllister
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
013 - On the use and abuse of CFD in fire engineering with Wolfram Jahn
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Computatio...
012 - Science, Industry, Legislators. How do we make them work together on a fire safe world? - Kees Both
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the pleasure and privilege to host dr Kees Both, the Technical Manager of Standards & Regulations in Etexgroup. Kees wanted...
011 - Why temperature is so easy to measure but so hard to interpret?
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the single most measured thing in fire science? The answer is easy - temperature. We use it everywhere - from learning material properties in ...
010 - Seeking the origins of standardized fire testing and ancient fire protection materials with John Gales
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
009 - Cognitive biases and decision making in evacuation with Michael Kinsey
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we take certain decisions during an evacuation process? How do we choose the evacuation route? These are often affected by cognitive biases, wh...
008 - Zone modelling is not dead with Colleen Wade
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zone modelling is a technique introduced in 1970's and 80's that has changed fire science. In my personal opinion, along with oxygen calorim...
007 - AI in smart firefighting and the future of FSE PBD with Xinyan Huang
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is talking about AI, but how can we really use it in fire safety engineering and firefighting? Prof Xinyan Huang of HK PolyU will explain his...
006 - EV's, rapid fires and car parks
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 6, our host, dr Wojciech Wegrzynski, explains his experiences with modelling rapidly growing fires in car parks. Such fire growth may be ty...
Battery fires with Roeland Bisschop
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I've talked to Roeland Bisschop, Project Manager in RISE, about his first-hand experience with battery fires. Roeland explained to me how d...
Facade fires and AI with Matt Bonner
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Matthew Bonner of the Imperial College London is one of the leading scientists touching on the subject of the fire safety of facades. His flavour i...
Tenability criteria with Gabriele Vigne
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know if a building is safe in fire or not? Usually through performing ASET-RSET analyses, in which you determine how and when the tenabilit...
Smouldering megafires with Guillermo Rein
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guillermo Rein is a recipient of ERC Consildator Grant on smouldering megafires. The most challenging source of founding, meant for the projects that ...
Introduction
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let's do this. For the first time... Welcome to the Fire Science Show!My name is Wojciech Wegrzynski, and I'm with the Building Research Ins...
Trailer - Fire Science Show
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello world!!!This is the trailer episode for the Fire Science Show. I'm sharing with you some backstage news, a bit of origin story and an intro...