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
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
The Warren Centre for advanced engineering at the University of Sydney has great significance in fire safety engineering. The first fire safety engineering project was the first in a chain of events that led to the introduction of the performance … Continue reading Warren Centre project on Fire Safety Engineering
The International Bamboo Construction Competition (IBCC 2019) was aimed at university students of architecture, civil engineering, other construction-related courses to explore the potential construction applications for both bamboo poles and engineered bamboo products. The prototype should be designed to be a … Continue reading International Bamboo Construction Competition
