Daan Van den Broecke obtained the David Sugden Award for his work investigating the Effectiveness of Sprinklers in Road Tunnels. Daan recently completed the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE), and developed his research project and thesis with the UQ Fire research group; the project was … Continue reading UQ Fire thesis wins the 2016 David Sugden Award
In last Saturday’s episode of Scope (Channel Eleven), Dr Angus Law and Dr Cristian Maluk explained some of the work being carried by the UQ Fire research group. You can view the full episode in TenPlay (UQ Fire segment starts in minute 8:25). Also, Nick … Continue reading UQ Fire on Channel Eleven
Being an associated partner of the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE), The University of Queensland and the UQ Fire team hosted Daan Van den Broecke and Rukesh Shilpakar during preparation of their research theses. Short letters from Daan and … Continue reading UQ thesis awarded with the 2016 IMFSE best thesis poster
In its latest issue, the prestigious International weekly Science journal, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) presented the work lead by Prof Jose Torero and carried in the UQ Fire Laboratory facilities. The latest experiments rule out the government’s … Continue reading Science Magazine – Fire experiments lead by Prof Jose Torero rule out the government’s explanation
Jose Urgel, visiting student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ICAI Comillas, Spain was awarded the first edition of the ICAI Comillas exchange grant given by the Technological Research Institute. Jose spent two months with UQ Fire, producing novel research outcomes out by taking … Continue reading Research collaborations with ICAI Comillas, Spain
On 3rd March from 1730-2030, we will be hosting a civil engineering showcase event on level 5 of the AEB. This is a great opportunity to come down to the Advanced Engineering Building, meet staff students, alumni, and industry partners. The … Continue reading Civil Engineering Showcase
This week we continued in the commissioning of our new scrubber. We thought we’d make sure it was working properly by conducting a few tests… Continue reading Scrubber commissioning…
