All Episodes

272 - How to add wind to fire CFD analysis?

271 - pyFDS-Evac with Mohcine Chraibi

270 - How the Cone Calorimeter took over with Marc Janssens

269 - Fire investigations and the scientific method with Vincent Brannigan

268 - Is critical velocity that critical?

267 - Modelling Fire Growth with Stephen Welch

266 - Compartment fire framework with Vinny Gupta

265 - How fires can lead to a nuclear winter? with Stephen Welch

264 - Engineering Firebrand Showers with Samuel L. Manzello

263 - Developments in modelling WUI fires with Arnaud Trouvé

262 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 22 - Optical diagnostics in fire with Elizabeth Weckman

261 - The story of the Cone Calorimeter with Vyto Babrauskas

260 - Fire safety in a carbon budget with Cecilia Wetterqvist and Axel Mossberg

259 - Communicating fire science with politicians with Birgitte Messerschmidt

258 - e-mobility fires in trains with Adam Barowy

257 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 21 - Radiation with Simo Hostikka

256 - Modelling turbulent combustion in fire CFD with Bart Merci

255 - Timber load bearing capacity in fire from nano- to megascale with Felix Wiesner

254 - Communicating fire science with firefighters, with Steve Kerber

253 - NERIS - the paradigm shift for the US fire data collection with Craig Weinschenk

252 - Substantiating Fire Models with Craig Hofmeister and Bryan Klein

251 - Occupant loads in Car Parks with Mike Spearpoint

250 - Communicating fire science with construction professionals

249 - PBD of a large car park with EVs (Case study) with Jonathan Hodges, Mark McKinnon and Christian Rippe

248 - JRC update on Fire Safety Engineering in Europe with Francesca Sciarretta

247 - Calculation methods for fire resistance with Piotr Turkowski

246 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 20 - Fire Resistance Criteria with Piotr Turkowski

245 - FDS input file ASMR in forest

244 - Decision making in large-scale evacuations with Erica Kuligowski

243 - 20 Informal Settlement Fire Experiments with Sam Stevens

242 - Learning from Earthquake Engineering with Negar Elhami-Khorasani and Justin Moresco

241 - Opportunities with AI (in 2026) with MZ Naser

240 - Distressed by the AI stuff around

239 - Assessing post-fire structural damage in tunnels with Negar Elhami-Khorasani

238 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 19 - Defining fires in your models

237 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 18 - Explosions with Ali Rangwala and Lorenz Boeck

236 - Fitting an efficient smoke control system in a confined space

235 - A Repeating Tragedy with Lazaros Filippidis

234 - Building a fire safety culture with George Boustras

233 - Safety as a moving target with Danielle Antonelis

232 - 2025 Wrap up episode - How fires turn into catastrophies

Merry Christmas everyone!

231 - BESS explosion prevention and mitigation with Lorenz Boeck and Nick Bartlett

230 - Wind driven conflagration experiments with Faraz Hedayati

229 - Learning from 900 fires with Björn Maiworm

228 - Quantifying the expected utility of fire tests with Andrea Franchini

227 - The differences between EV and ICEV fires in car parks

226 - New Swiss fire safety code with Gianluca De Sanctis and Sofia Kourgiantaki

225 - Battery Energy Storage Systems with Noah Ryder

224 - Navigating the complexities to change our field - a roundtable with Steve McGuirk and Brian Meacham

223 - Heat-induced delamination in CLT with Antonela Čolić

222 - Integrating WUI risk management and fire safety engineering with Pascale Vacca

221 - Fire experiments at the ISS (SoFIE-MIST) with Michael Gollner

220 - Test vs experiment with David Morrisset

219 - Giving back with the SFPE Foundation - with Leslie Marshall

218 - Fire decay and cooling phases with Andrea Lucherini

217 - Things that go wrong with the smoke control and how we fix them

216 - What do we measure and how? with David Morrisset

215 - Lessons from the 2018 Camp Fire with Eric D. Link

214 - Thermal Imagers with Martin Veit

213 - Setting up your own chatbot with Ruggiero Lovreglio and Amir Rafe

212 - A glossary for evacuation with Enrico Ronchi and Ezel Üsten

211 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 17 - Detecting fires

210 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 16 - Turbulence with Randy McDermott

209 - Updates from the SFPE with Chris Jelenewicz

208 - The basics of fire water supply with Szymon Kokot

207 - Fire Safety of Balconies with Mike Spearpoint and Konstantinos Chotzoglou

206 - Fire Engineering Infrastructural Projects with Mukesh Tomar

205 - FDS maintenance and development with Randy McDermott

204 - 4th Birthday of the Podcast. Some stories about the past and the future

203 - The lessons from repeating Jin's experiment on visibility in smoke

202 - Designing fire safety with firefighters in mind

201 - The last fire - a novel set in industrial fire engineering with Joaquim Casal

200 - Façade flammability across scales and standards with Guillermo Rein and Matt Bonner

199 - Commercial Timber Guidebook with Danny Hopkin and Luis Gonzalez Avila

198 - Waste and recycling fires and how to fight them with Ryan Fogelman

197 - Fire spread through external walls pt. 2 with FSRI

196 - Fire spread through external walls pt. 1 with FSRI

195 - Fire Safety Cases with Chris Mayfield and Martyn Ramsden

194 - Playing with batteries with Xinyan Huang

193 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 15 - Extinguishing systems with Bogdan Racięga

192 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 14 - Jet fan systems for car parks

191 - Committee participation with Birgitte Messerschmidt and Kees Both

190 - Car park fires review with Zahir

189 - Simple things that work

188 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 13 - Porous solid fuels

187 - Smouldering of preserved timber with Wenxuan Wu

186 - Egressibility: a paradigm shift in evacuation research with Enrico Ronchi

185 - Recap on wildfire science

184 - Cost-benefit analysis in structural fire safety with Thomas Gernay and Chenzi Ma

183 - Innovation and fire safety with Vincent Brannigan

182 - Bias in fire research

181 - Regulatory regimes with Vincent Brannigan

180 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 12 - Pressurization systems

179 - Assurance in fire safety with Abhishek Chhabra

178 - Origin stories of fire prevention and firefighting with Michał Stachowicz

177 - Physics-Based Modelling of Fire Spread with Francesco Restuccia

176 - The Myth of Panic with Daniel Nilsson

175 - Changes in the UK fire regulations with Dame Judith Hackitt

174 - My predictions for AI in fire