International Symposium of Fire Safety Science

The Division of Fire Safety Engineering was well represented at the International Symposium of Fire Safety Science in Tsukuba, Japan. Several papers and poster were presented by people associated with the division. There were also awards presented to our colleagues Margaret McNamee (Forum award), Arthur Rohaert for best student paper and Konrad [...]

Welcome Patrick Sudhoff, our PhD-guest!

From 2012-2018, I studied „Safety & Hazard Defense”, an interdisciplinary and consecutive bachelor’s and master's degree program on fire protection, disaster management and hazard prevention at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU) and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences in Germany. After graduating in 2018, I started to work [...]

Rita Fahy

Det är med sorg som vi får informera om att vår gästlärare Rita Fahy från NFPA gått bort den 12 juli. Rita deltog i undervisningen om människors beteende vid brand och var en mycket uppskattad lärare och kollega

Course on Tunnel Fire Dynamics

This autumn the division of fire safety engineering will offer one of our doctoral courses as an external course for professionals. The course "Fire Dynamics in Tunnels" is managed by Prof Haukur Ingason and corresponds to 7.5 ECTS! You can sign up for the course here. Please contact Haukur Ingason (haukur.ingason [ at ] ri.se) for more [...]

Thesis presentations May 23 and May 29

Redovisning av examensarbete 20:e mars

Den 20:e mars redovisas examensarbete på avdelningen Brandteknik, LTH. Vänligen se bifogat schema. Redovisningarna kommer att hållas i sal V:Brand, Johan Ericssons väg 1 i Lund samt online via Zoom. Zoom-länk: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/64679498714  Ni är varmt välkomna att delta.

WUI-NITY 4 project on wildfire evacuation modelling

The division of Fire Safety Engineering is part of the WUI-NITY consortium, that has been awarded a new grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The WUI-NITY 4 project focuses on an integrated software platform that works to enhance life safety in case of wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires by simulating WUI evacuation [...]

New newsletter from the FIRE21 project

There has been a new newsletter published in the FIRE21 project. You can find it here. FIRE21 is a research project that investigates problem solving in the Fire and Rescue Services in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The project examines the importance of formal and informal networks before, during and after a rescue operation.

Studenter på Brandskydd 2022

I förra veckan genomfördes konferensen Brandskydd 2022. Studenter blev inbjudna att visa upp sina pågående examensarbete! Från avd. Brandteknik visade Madeleine Häggqvist och Petter Tisell upp sitt examensarbete "Branddetektering med ljud i enkla träelement". Det är jättetrevligt att våra studenter blir inbjudna till denna typ av konferenser och [...]

Presentation av examensarbeten 9:e december

Den 9 december redovisas examensarbete på avdelningen Brandteknik, LTH. Vänligen se bifogat schema. Redovisningarna kommer att hållas i sal V:P1, Johan Ericssons väg 1 i Lund samt online via Zoom. Zoom-länk: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/62075212969 Ni är varmt välkomna att delta.