The education of safety professionals shows a high variety in their level of approved
qualifications, ranging from a technician level up to university master courses, and more …

Building fire safety activities in the Far East will be briefly reviewed in this paper. Fire safety
concerns in some buildings with new architectural features will be discussed. Glass …

Many tall buildings, deep underground railway tunnels and large halls are built in high-
density cities (Chow, 2003a, 2005a, 2007; Tsujimoto, 2008). Structural elements are either …

Along with the rapid urbanization and economic growth in China over the last four decades,
the higher education in Fire Safety Science and Engineering has been developed and …

The possibility of implementing Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes (EPBFC) in the
HKSAR is briefly discussed. Topics in the existing codes where EPBFC can be applied are …

Aspects of fire safety provisions in ultra highrise buildings will be discussed in this paper.
The total fire safety concept of implementing software fire safety management to control …

There are two objectives in this paper on applying fire modelling techniques for designing
fire safety provisions with symbolic mathematics. The first is to review key equations for a two …

Engineering performance-based fire codes (EPBFC) are to be developed in Hong Kong.
Before implementing EPBFC, or even writing down what should be done, such as the fire …

In the coming decades, the demand for fire engineers will be on the rise in South East Asia.
There, supertall buildings, large atria, deep underground subway stations, long tunnels and …

Any form of Design Project-Based (DPB) assessment should be valid, reliable and socially
acceptable in that it must not cause offence to students, and must also be trusted and …