The University of Queensland has recently produced a story featuring the research activities developed by the UQ Fire Safety Engineering Research group. This story includes conversations with UQ Fire academics regarding Queensland’s efforts to address the cladding crisis and strategic … Continue reading UQ Fire research featured
Dr Felix Wiesner joined the Fire Safety Engineering research group at The University of Queensland (UQ) as a lecturer in timber engineering in October. His research, which is funded by the National Centre for Timber Durability, will investigate the effectiveness … Continue reading Dr Felix Wiesner
Dr David Lange and Dr Cristian Maluk spent two weeks at the end of 2019 delivering a short course in Fire Safety Engineering at IIT Delhi in India. Continue reading Short course on Structural Fire Engineering at IIT Delhi
Vinny Gupta, Mohamad Lutfi Ramadhan and Juan Cuevas attended the 1st Asia-Pacific Combustion Institute Summer School (APCISS) hosted last month in Viña del Mar and at Federico Santa Maria Technical University in Valparaiso, Chile. The summer school involved over 60 … Continue reading APCISS 2019
The ARC Future Timber Hub at The University of Queensland is pleased to announce our 2nd Timber Design Continuing Professional Development course “Integrated Timber Design Workshop” which is being held at The University of Queensland on the 9 to 10 December … Continue reading Integrated Timber Design Workshop (December 2019)
UQ is proud to officially announce its Cladding Materials Library (https://claddingmaterialslibrary.com.au) to help give competent fire engineers the tools to tackle the cladding crisis. The library contains the needed flammability data on a wide range of cladding materials, and is … Continue reading UQ announces its Cladding Materials Library
We would like to invite you for the oral presentations on Fire Safety Engineering research thesis. Presentations will be delivered by students completing Master programs in the School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland. For catering purposes please … Continue reading Master Thesis – Oral presentations
Dr Cristian Maluk was invited to speak at a seminar organised by the Concrete Institute of Australia; with a presentation entitled “Fire-Induced Concrete Spalling – The End of the Beginning”. The presentation covered the state of the art in our … Continue reading Fire-Induced Concrete Spalling
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
