Written by Jessica Barton. My name is Jess, I am a final year BE-ME(Fire) student at The University of Queensland. I enrolled into the BE degree after completing high school with the intention to major in civil engineering, however, after … Continue reading Jessica Barton @ QBCC
The 11th International Conference on Structures in Fire, SiF 2020 is moving online! All authors have been notified. While we’re disappointed not to be able to welcome you to Brisbane later this year we’re excited about the opportunities that this … Continue reading SiF 2020 goes online!
During these unprecedented times, we start a new academic semester and continue to work on research studies at UQFire. While we hope our colleagues from around and their love ones are staying safe, we feel for not meeting them at … Continue reading UQFire says present @ 13th IAFSS
Congratulations to our 2020 Winter Graduates! The July 2020 graduation (held online due to COVI-19 restrictions) had the following students being awarded degrees for completion of their studies in Fire programs at The University of Queensland. Doctor of Philosophy Dr Aaron Bolanos … Continue reading 2020 Winter Graduation
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
In yet another highlight of her research carrier, Carmen Gorska presented her research on self-extinguishing timber buildings at the popular and insightful TED Talks. At the TEDxUQ sessions that took place on Saturday 10th of August 2019, Carmen took the main … Continue reading UQ Fire research in TED Talks
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
Each year, the UMD Department of Fire Protection Engineering supported by NIST hosts its Annual Christmas Tree Fire Safety Demonstration. The demo consists of a series of live-fire experiments on both natural and artificial Christmas trees to show the burning … Continue reading 2019 NIST Christmas Tree competition
Written by Abdulrahman Zaben. The seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures (APFIS-2019) took place in Gold Cost, Australia last week. The conference aims to provide a forum for academics, researchers, practitioners and industry in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere … Continue reading APFIS 2019
