Over the last three weeks, PhD Students Mr Mateo Gutierrez and Mr Ian Pope presented their work on the fire performance of bamboo at institutions around the United Kingdom. On the 28th March, they met Dr Bhavna Sharma and other … Continue reading Bamboo research tours around the UK
Registration is now open for the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course at The University of Queensland on ‘External Fire Spread Risk in Tall Building Design’ (2nd edition). Monday 30 April – Friday 4 May 2018 (5-day CPD course) This CPD course aims at providing … Continue reading ‘External Fire Spread Risk in Tall Building Design’ CPD
Our very own Mateo Gutierrez will be presenting at the upcoming Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Young Researchers’ Conference to be hold in London. Last year, Mateo was awarded the 1st price during the Australia IStructE Young Researchers’ Conference for his presentation entitled “Design … Continue reading IStructE YRC 2018, London
Carmen Gorska Putynska was recently featured as an ambassador of the SAGE Pilot of Athena SWAN program to address and improve gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) disciplines. Forty-five Australian organisations, including universities, medical research institutions and government … Continue reading UQ Women Create Change
Dr Robert Foster and Dr Cristian Maluk recently featured in Engineers Australia “create” magazine in an article related to activities and outcomes of the ARC funded Future Timber Hub at The University of Queensland. “There is always a tendency to … Continue reading Engineers Australia “create” magazine
Last Thursday 8th of March, The SFPE – UQ Student Chapter hosted Mr James O’Neill (Holmes Fire) for a lecture entitled “Fire Engineering in Practice”. His presentation gathered an audience that included undergraduate students, post graduates and lecturers from UQ’s … Continue reading SFPE Seminar: Fire Engineering in Practice
The research from Vinny Gupta and Jaime Cadena, PhD students at UQ Fire, on the characterisation of large open-floor plan compartment fires and uncertainty in the use of CFD tools to analyse fully-developed compartment fires has been recently highlighted by … Continue reading SFPE features UQ Fire article
Members of the Centre for Future Timber Structures and UQ Fire visited the construction site of the Lendlease’s world’s largest timber office building, 25 King. Recently breaking ground floor, the use of exposed timber structure throughout the building was enabled … Continue reading Site visit to 25 King
SFPE UQ Student Chapter kick started events for 2018 with the presence of Mr. Per Olsson, Group CEO, and founder of Olsson Fire & Risk, an internationally renowned fire-engineering consultancy and design firm. His presentation covered various topics that challenges … Continue reading Passive Fire: Design and Compliance
We are very pleased to announce that Dr David Lange has recently joined the School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland as Senior Lecturer in Fire Safety Engineering (UQ Fire). Dave brings almost 7 years of experience working at RISE in … Continue reading New Academic in Fire Safety Engineering
