The Australia Regional Group from the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) held the 2019 Young Researchers’ Conference, 29 November 2019. It is great to see UQ Fire students’ demonstrating the relevance of their work in front of the wider civil engineering community. At … Continue reading IStructE YRC 2019 Australia
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
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
Earlier this month, work from UQFire was presented at Interflam 2019. Since 1979, this Interflam brings together engineers, scientists, practitioners and regulators from around the globe to hear the latest state of the art science and engineering practice. UQ Fire presented … Continue reading interflam 2019
5th Pacific Timber Engineering Conference (PTEC 2019) When: 10-12 July 2019 Where: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre South Bank Parklands, Brisbane, Australia Hosted by the Future Timber Hub, ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Tall Timber Buildings, and in collaboration with … Continue reading 5th Pacific Timber Engineering Conference
We are very excited that our academic/research group has made available the 2019 research projects for students at The University of Queensland enrolled in BEng and MEng programs. https://www.civil.uq.edu.au/fire-available-projects Projects cover a wide range of research areas in Fire Safety Engineering, Structural … Continue reading 2019 Available Research Projects
Our BEng-MEng graduate Joshua Madden presented yesterday at the Australasian Structural Engineering Conference (ASEC) 2018. The theme for the conference covered a diverse range of topics of relevant to the structural engineering industry and academia. Josh presented the outcomes of his … Continue reading Australasian Structural Engineering Conference
Andrea Lucherini, PhD candidate presented at the 3rd European Symposium on Fire Safety Science (ESFSS) held at the University of Lorraine (Nancy, France). The symposium gathered researchers, scientists and professionals around Europe and from countries all around the world. The … Continue reading 3rd European Symposium on Fire Safety Science (ESFSS 2018)
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
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