Headlines

• Congratulations to Luke Bisby who has been promoted to be Arup Professor of Structures and Fire from April 2013.
• Prof Jose Torero meets Bill Gates as our team came third in the "Reinventing the Toilet" challenge. See photos in the Gallery, news story (from University of Toronto) is here.
• We are currently conducting large scale fire tests at BRE, Watford. Regular video updates are being posted on our blog and YouTube channel:
  
  

Fire Safety Engineering

The University of Edinburgh has been an important institution in the field of Fire Safety Engineering for over three decades. Many of those who are now leaders in the field came to Edinburgh to study and research under the supervision of the late Prof David Rasbash, one of the main pioneers of the discipline, and Prof Dougal Drysdale, author of the definitive text book on the subject, 'Introduction to Fire Dynamics' (Wiley, 3rd edition 2011) and Prof Jose Torero who was, until recently, the BRE/RAE Chair in Fire Safety Engineering. Teaching and research in fire safety continues at Edinburgh under the interim leadership of Dr Luke Bisby and applications are currently invited for the post of Professor of Fire Safety Engineering. The BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering is part of the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh.

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What we do

We are a world-class research fire centre with 40 research members from more than 18 different nationalities.The BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering exists to: Equip tomorrow's leaders in the field with the skills they require Support today's fire safety with multidisciplinary research Provide first-class education in Fire Safety Engineering and Stuctural Fire Engineering Deliver fire safety consultancy services to industry and other consultancies Disseminate information about advances and research in fire safety engineering through courses, symposia and publications

Recent additions to the gallery

Updates See latest news on the Blog and our Youtube channel. For a 'snapshot' of the students and research in the group in November 2011 click here. You can freely access the latest publications and PhD theses in the digital repository. BBC Horizon show 'Skyscraper Fire Fighters' featuring our work. Interested in working with us?. See PhD and Postdoc positions here.

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Sponsors and Collaborations

• Lloyd's Register Educational Trust (LRET) [click here for International MSc scholarship details]
• BRE Trust, Arup, EPSRC, Technology Strategy Board, European Commission FP6, Scottish Enterprise, NASA, Combustion Science & Engineering Inc., Research Fund for Coal and Steel, The Concrete Centre, Buro Happold, Tata Steel, Powerwall Systems Ltd. Met Office, International Fire Investigators and Consultants, Rushbrook Fire Safety Engineering, Nuffield Foundation, UKIERI, Bristish Council
• University of Western Ontario, University of Corsica Pascal Paoli, University of Strathclyde, Heriot Watt University, Environmental Reclamation Services Ltd., Geosyntec Consultants Ltd.
• Joint research centre in Fire Safety Engineering with Tongji University, China (established 2008).

Recent poster presentations

SAFE MSc Projects 2011-2012
Fire Performance of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Confined Concrete Columns by Yajing (Sharon) Gao	External fire spread of building facade by Didi Li	Punching Shear of FLat Slabs in Fire Conditions by Atli Rutur Thorsteinsson BEST POSTER AWARD (joint)	Application and Vlaidation of FireFOAM in a Wide Range of Methane Fire by Chao Wang	Spalling behaviour of HSC Beam subject to high temperatures by Mian Zhou BEST POSTER AWARD (joint)

For more posters, please see our Poster Publications Page.

Public Lecture 2011

The Twin Towers: 10 Years - 10 Lessons on Sustainable Infrastructure
Royal Society of Edinburgh / Royal Academy of Engineering Joint Lecture 2011
Presented by Prof Jose Torero
Recorded Monday 14th March 2011

How to find us

Our facilites are located in the King's Buildings campus (2.5 km south of the city center), in the William Rankine Building and the John Muir Building. Click for maps of King's Buildings and more information.

Publications so far this year

2012 Papers

	Gales, J., Bisby, L.A. & Stratford, T.J. New Parameters to Describe High Temperature Deformation of Prestressing Steel determined using Digital Image Correlation, accepted April 2012, Structural Engineering International (IABSE), 13pp.	[DOI] [ERA]
	Li, S.Q., Chen, J.F., Bisby, L.A., Hu, L.M. & Teng, J.G. 2012. Strain Efficiency of FRP Jackets in FRP-Confined Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubes, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 12(1): 75-94.	[DOI] [ERA]
	R. Carvel "Mitigation of tunnel fires" 5th Int. Symp. on Tunnel Safety and Security, New York, USA, 14-16 March 2012. pp. 27-40.	[DOI] [ERA]
	R. Carvel, D. Bishop & S. Welch "The influence of blockages on backlayering in tunnel fires: A numerical study" 5th Int. Symp. on Tunnel Safety and Security, New York, USA, 14-16 March 2012. pp. 369-376.	[DOI] [ERA]
	F. Colella, A. Sciacovelli, V. Verda, R. Borchiellini, G. Rein & R. Carvel "Multiscale Modelling of Fire Emergencies in a Transverse Ventilated Tunnel" 5th Int. Symp. on Tunnel Safety and Security, New York, USA, 14-16 March 2012. pp. 339-348.	[DOI] [ERA]
	Bradley D, Chamberlain GA, Drysdale DD. "Large vapour cloud explosions, with particular reference to that at Buncefield." Phil Trans Roy Soc A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2012 Feb 13;370(1960):544-66.	[DOI] [ERA]
	S MacPhee, G Rein, J Gerhard, A Novel method for simulating smouldering propagation and its application to STAR (Self-sustaining Treatment for Active Remediation), Environmental Modelling & Software 31 (2012) pp 84-98	[DOI] [ERA]
	W Jahn, G Rein, JL Torero, Forecasting fire dynamics using inverse Computational Fluid Dynamics and Tangent Linearisation, Advances in Engineering Software 47 (2012) 114Ð126.	[DOI] [ERA]
	R Hadden, A Alkatib, G Rein, JL Torero, Radiant Ignition of Polyurethane Foam: the Effect of Sample Size, Fire Technology (in press), 2012.	[DOI] [ERA]
	D. Lange, C. Roben & A. Usmani, Tall Building Collapse Mechanisms Initiated by Fire: Mechanisms and Design Methodology, Engineering Structures 36 (2012) pp. 90-103	[DOI] [ERA]