Category: Events
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President’s and Partners’ Visit to the Fire Service College
In keeping with the 2024 President’s theme of fire and its effects, members and partners spent 25 and 26 July 2024 at the 365-acre Fire Service College at Moreton-in-Marsh in the Cotswolds. For over 60 years the College has been at the forefront of fire safety and response training, from cadets to senior officers, covering…
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Clean Power Generation from the Intractable Coalfield Fires: Turning Harm into Benefit
Underground fires represent a massive and uncontrolled release of energy that is not used, is very difficult to suppress and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Extracting energy while systematically suppressing these fires is a major technological challenge, but one with significant potential benefit. Professor Torero discussed the fundamentals of energy recovery from…
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Spring Voyage to Paris: The Restoration of Notre-Dame
53 members and partners spent four days in Paris from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 May 2024 with the 2024 President, Chris Foster. The theme was the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral following the fire of April 2019. The keynote speaker at the conference at La Maison des Travaux Publics on Friday 24 May was Philippe…
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Unplanned Adventures in Fire Science, Engineering and Regulation
In September 2001 a young structural engineering PhD student, whose research happened to be on the fire-induced collapse of load-bearing elements in buildings, watched both World Trade Center towers burn and collapse. Sixteen years later, now a professor of fire and structures, he watched Grenfell Tower burn. Each time, he had to understand how this…
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How to Protect People and Homes from Wildfires: Flames, Engineering and Computer Models
Catastrophic wildfire events have been increasing in frequency and impact and are projected to get worse. While fire is part of a forest’s natural cycle and can help restore balance in the ecosystem, it becomes a hazard when it threatens human life and property. Professor Rein discussed the effect of climate change on the prevalence…
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Forensic Fire Investigation: The Underpinning Fire Science and Investigative Methodology
The 2024 President’s inaugural lecture and dinner followed the Annual General Meeting at One Great George Street on Monday 29 January 2024. When unchecked, fire causes many fatalities, a greater number of serious injuries, and annual social and economic losses in the UK typically exceeding £10 billion. Chris described the stages in the growth of…
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Meetings 2021 to 2023
This is the list of IESF British Section meetings, lectures, visits and voyages from 2021 to 2023, as it appeared on the earlier version of the website. Later events each have their own post on the Programme page.