The use of mass timber in buildings instead of non‐combustible materials has benefits in
sustainability, aesthetics, construction times, and costs. However, the uptake of mass timber …

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a mass timber product that has attracted increasing interest
in mid-and high-rise building construction. However, conventional compartment fire models …

Forecasting building fire development and critical fire events in real-time is of great
significance for firefighting and rescue operations. This work proposes an artificial …

There is an increasing global demand to build from timber as it is a sustainable and
attractive material. One of the key challenges associated with timber buildings is their …

Close inspection of accidental fires in large, open-plan compartments reveals that they do
not burn simultaneously throughout the whole enclosure. Instead, these fires tend to move …

In recent years, large-scale structural fire testing has experienced something of a
renaissance. After about a century with the standard fire resistance test being the …

Abstract Drawing from Career Construction Theory (Savickas, 2013) and Social Cognitive
Theory (Bandura, 1986), we examine role modeling as a socialization mechanism that …

Observations from realistic fires have revealed that a fire tends to “travel” across the floors
rather than burning simultaneously for the duration. However, the collapse mechanism and …

This paper characterises the fire dynamics in the Large-Scale Demonstrator Malveira Fire
Test, a full-scale fire experiment carried out in an industrial building in Portugal. The …

Many studies of the thermal and structural behaviour for large compartments in fire carried
out over the past two decades show that fires in such compartments have a great deal of non …