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
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
On Tuesday 19 June 2018, it took place a poster presentation event in the Advanced Engineering Building at The University of Queensland, where our students enrolled in the BE-ME in Civil and Fire Safety Engineering presented their progress in their … Continue reading BE-ME(2018): Poster presentation
A PhD researcher from UQ Fire, Mohamad Lutfi Ramadhan, has recently been selected as one of The University of Queensland’s 2018 Global Change Scholars Program awardees. This prestigious program will provide a great cohort experience to 30 PhD students selected … Continue reading 2018 Global Change Scholars Program
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
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
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
This week there was an unusual tension in the Structures Lab at The University of Queensland as UQ Fire prepared things for the arrival of engineered, laminated bamboo. PhD candidates Mateo Gutierrez, Angela Solarte and Ian Pope led major efforts to obtain the shipment of … Continue reading Bamboo shipment fuels research
