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held the BRE/RAE Chair in Fire Safety Engineering from 2004 to 2012. Albert Simeoni held the BRE chair from 2013 to 2015. Grunde Jomaas held the BRE chair from 2016 to 2021. Teaching and research in fire safety continues at Edinburgh under the leadership of Prof Luke Bisby, professor of fire and
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The University of Edinburgh was the first university to offer a degree in Fire engineering. Leaders in the field came to Edinburgh to study and research under the supervision of Rasbash, a pioneer of the discipline, and
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The staff of the Edinburgh Fire Research Centre comprises six academics, several research associates, about 20-25 postgraduate researchers and some undergraduate researchers.
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The centre is part of the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering consortium. The joint degree started in September 2010 and involves the universities of
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The Centre supports the Structural and Fire Safety Engineering degrees (BEng, MEng and MSc) as well as a number of short courses for professionals.
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The Centre publishes more than 100 conference papers and a dozen peer-reviewed journal papers per year. Some can be publicly accessed via
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were a series of large-scale fire tests conducted over several years from the early 1990s in a real steel-framed structure at the former
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An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, Dougal Drysdale, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1998
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New International Master in Fire Safety Engineering approved by Erasmus Mundus (accessed 31 July 09)
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were a series of fire experiments conducted in July 2006 in a real 1960s concrete tower block in
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Several publications from The Edinburgh Fire Research Centre
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University of Edinburgh
Fire Protection Engineering
Dougal Drysdale
Jose Torero
Edinburgh
Ghent
Lund
Smouldering
Cardington tests
airship hangar
Cardington
Dalmarnock tests
Dalmarnock
Glasgow
their Digital Repository
An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, Dougal Drysdale, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1998
New International Master in Fire Safety Engineering approved by Erasmus Mundus (accessed 31 July 09)
The Edinburgh Fire Research Centre
Several publications from The Edinburgh Fire Research Centre
"Skyscraper Fire Fighters'"
BBC Horizon
BBC Two
Categories
Fire and rescue in Scotland

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