The ARC Future Timber Hub at The University of Queensland has recently been featured in AFAC TV, an innovative online news-style program about the industry created in partnership with ASN Media. The Future Timber Hub, funded by the Australian Research Council, is Australia’s … Continue reading Future Timber Hub featured in AFAC TV
Faculty News – 09 September 2019 A passion for sustainable construction led University of Queensland PhD student Mateo Gutierrez to explore the potential of bamboo as an environmentally friendly local building material. Bamboo is fast becoming a popular choice in Australia for flooring and … Continue reading Bamboo lights a fire under Australian construction industry
Written by Martina Manes. I am third-year PhD student at The University of Edinburgh, supervised by Dr David Rush and Prof Luke Bisby working on the investigation of UK and USA fire statistics and the updates of British Standard PD … Continue reading Martina Manes – EdinburghFire
Last week, students and staff from UQ Fire spent the day at the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) fire training facilities. During a visit to QFES’ Wythe Island facilities, we geared up in full protective equipment and went over … Continue reading QFES Live Fire Campus
Last week, to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Society of Fire Safety (SFS), a seminar was held in Melbourne. The seminar had speakers presenting work on a wide range of topics. Dr Cristian Maluk gave a presentation entitled Fire safety engineering … Continue reading Society of Fire Safety 25th Anniversary
We are very excited to announce that the first call for papers for the 11th International Conference on Structures in Fire, SiF2020, has been published. SiF2020 is hosted by UQFire, the fire engineering research group at The University of Queensland. … Continue reading First call for papers for SiF2020
The UQ Fire newsletter covers recent news and activities from the Fire Safety Engineering Research Group at The University of Queensland. Issue #3 of the newsletter (August 2019) is available at the following link. Continue reading UQ Fire newsletter – Issue #3
