Congratulations to Dr Juan Hidalgo, Prof José L. Torero, and Dr Stephen Welch recipient of the 2018 Tibor Z. Harmathy Award, for their paper titled ‘Experimental Characterisation of the Fire Behaviour of Thermal Insulation Materials for a Performance-Based Design Methodology’, published by Fire Technology in 2017.

The paper was first nominated by the Editorial Board as one of the best papers and then judged to be the Harmathy winner by the Associate Editors. This paper is an outcome of Dr Hidalgo’s PhD research developed at the University of Edinburgh and funded by Rockwool International A\S. The journal paper can be accessed here.

For more information visit Fire Technology’s tweet below:

Congratulations to Juan, Jose & Stephen for winning the 2018 Harmathy Award for the best fire paper led by a student.
“Experimental Characterisation of the Fire Behaviour of Thermal Insulation Materials for Performance-Based Design” https://t.co/8vxH2rid6T@juahime @welchsUK pic.twitter.com/XDI40ivt27

— Fire Technology journal (@FireTechnology) 24 May 2018