Fire Science Show 🔥

50k listens! A new milestone reached, all thanks to you, loyal listeners. Thank you for spending your time with the Fire Science Show, I appreciate you listening, following, sharing and interacting with the show a lot. @buzzsprout

New Episode! "235 - A Repeating Tragedy with Lazaros Filippidis" A fire in a public venue happened again. No, I am not talking about the one in Switzerland. Since the tragic New Year celebration, we… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141420883146…

New Episode! "234 - Building a fire safety coulture with George Boustras" Today we sit down with safety science leader George Boustras - a professor at European University Cyprus, UNESCO Chair in Di… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141420882952…

New Episode! "233 - Safety as a moving target with Danielle Antonelis" Fires in informal settlements and humanitarian settings rarely make headlines, but they define daily life for millions. We sit … Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141394284832…

New Episode! "232 - 2025 Wrap up episode - How fires turn into catastrophies" Catastrophes don’t happen because of one bad decision; they happen when many small assumptions fail at the same time. I … Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141347284008…

New Episode! "Merry Christmas everyone!" I would like to take this opportunity to wish you Merry Christmas, a great time with your families, a bit of rest and time to reflect, and an awesome 2026 to… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141298247749…

New Episode! "231 - BESS explosion prevention and mitigation with Lorenz Boeck and Nick Bartlett" Today we cover another branch of safety of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), that is explosion … Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141250079389…

New Episode! "230 - Wind driven conflagration experiments with Faraz Hedayati" A facility with 105 synchronized fans pushing hurricane-class wind across a full-size house while a live fire... This i… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141200887557…

New Episode! "229 - Learning from 900 fires with Björn Maiworm" What can you learn after processing observations across 900 severe fires? A lot. Actually, I will send you to the paper straight away:… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141152645969…

New Episode! "228 - Quantifying the expected utility of fire tests with Andrea Franchini" What do you expect from running a fire test? I would hope that it improves my state of knowledge. But do the… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141104521864…

New Episode! "227 - The differences between EV and ICEV fires in car parks" A viral clip of an EV igniting was what started my worries about safety in car parks I have been designing. Are we ready f… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141056126835…

New Episode! "226 - New Swiss fire safety code with Gianluca De Sanctis and Sofia Kourgiantaki" It is a massive effort to rewrite a national fire safety code around measurable risk, explicit targets… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/141007728052…

New Episode! "225 - Battery Energy Storage Systems with Noah Ryder" Demand for the energy storage is as high as ever, and is about to triple-quadruple. The development of technology is at unpreceden… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140958894006…

New Episode! "224 - Navigating the complexities to change our field - a roundtable with Steve McGuirk and Brian Meacham" This week, in the Fire Science Show, we host a roundtable discussion on compl… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140910983630…

New Episode! "223 - Fire induced delamination in CLT with Antonela Čolić" In this episode of the Fire Science Show we invite dr. Antonela Čolić from the OFR Consultants, to break down the performanc… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140861824030…

New Episode! "222 - Integrating WUI risk management and fire safety engineering with Pascale Vacca" In this episode we try to demonstrate another step in integrating fire engineering into WUI risk m… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140813466882…

New Episode! "221 - Fire experiments at the ISS (SoFIE-MIST) with Michael Gollner" Fire doesn’t play by Earth’s rules once you leave gravity behind. In this deep dive with Professor Michael Gollner,… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140765197081…

New Episode! "220 - Test vs experiment with David Morrisset" In this episode we dive into the ap between standardized tests and experiments, trying to figure out (a) is there a difference and (b) if… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140717255769…

New Episode! "219 - Giving back with the SFPE Foundation - with Leslie Marshall" In this episode, we give focus to the SFPE Foundation – a catalyst transforming how fire engineering research is fund… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140668431781…

New Episode! "218 - Decay and cooling phases with Andrea Lucherini" What happens when the flames die down? It's a question rarely addressed in fire engineering, yet the decay and cooling phases of f… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140620071273…

New Episode! "217 - Things that go wrong with the smoke control and how we fix them" In my personal view, an alarming truth about building fire safety lies in the gap between what's designed and wha… Player links & show notes: firescienceshow.com/e/140572587596…