We would like to officially welcome Dr Martyn S. McLaggan to the Fire Safety Engineering Research Group at The University of Queensland. Martyn joins UQ Fire as the Research Fellow to co-lead the research on combustible cladding and fire performance … Continue reading Dr Martyn McLaggan joins UQ Fire
UQ’s Master of Engineering Science in Fire Safety Engineering (1.5-year) covers key engineering and science courses. This program equips students with the necessary fundamental skills and knowledge to develop comprehensive Fire Safety Strategies for a broad range of projects. Our next MEngSc … Continue reading Master of Engineering Science in Fire Safety Engineering
From the 19th -23rd August, UQ Fire had the opportunity to attend the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2018) held in the CEOX Convention Center, in Seoul, Korea. The WCTE is the most prestigious international event in timber engineering, … Continue reading World Conference on Timber Engineering, Seoul 2018
Last Sunday, Dr Cristian Maluk appeared in a Radio interview for ABC’s radio show, Future Tense. You can can see an article on the interview here, and the full interview podcast here. In relation to the Australian Research Council-funded Future Timber Hub, opened … Continue reading Tall timber tales
UQ Fire PhD candidate Ian Pope has completed a 7-month research exchange programme with the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Ian received the Sir Peter Gadsden Britain Australia Award 2018 from … Continue reading Ian Pope at The University of Edinburgh
Harrison Wall, MEng graduate from the Fire Safety Engineering program at The University of Queensland, was awarded the FWPA travel award to attend the 2018 World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) to be held on August 20-23 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The award was … Continue reading FWPA travel fund award
Last month we celebrated the Winter Graduations at The University of Queensland. Congratulations are in order for the most recent graduates from the Graduate Certificate in Fire Safety. This program trains a selected group of firefighters from the Australian Fire and … Continue reading Winter Graduations
We would like to congratulate our IMFSE partners at Ghent University, Lund University, the University of Edinburgh, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and The University of Maryland to have been awarded the David A. Lucht Lamp of Knowledge Award by SFPE. The David A. … Continue reading IMFSE awarded the David A. Lucht Lamp of Knowledge Award
Angela Solarte (PhD candidate) will represent UQ Fire in the 2018 School of Civil Engineering Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. If you’re around, it would be great if you could come along to show your support; there will be afternoon tea. … Continue reading 3MT Competition (School of Civil Eng.)
The paper presented by Dr Maluk, describes the outcomes of a collaborative R&D project between The University of Queensland and Elasto Plastic Concrete Pty Ltd. The paper was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 10th International Conference on Structure in Fire (SiF), … Continue reading Industry collaboration awarded at SiF 2018
