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Elevating Nuclear Safety Through Probabilistic Safety Assessments
30 Nov 2023
The quest for sustainable, clean energy sources is a global imperative. In this endeavor, nuclear power remains a powerful and reliable contributor. Probabilistic Safety Assessments ensure the safe operation of nuclear power plants.
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Lithium-Ion Batteries in Transportation
14 Nov 2023
Batteries are used in energy storage systems as well as vehicles in warehouses and transit centers and on cargo ships. The risks and hazards vary.
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Conducting Scene Risk Assessments for Structural Fires Investigations
13 Nov 2023
When undertaking a scene risk assessment, investigators bear in mind three key elements: hazards, risks, and control measures.
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Balancing Safety, Conservation, and Practicality in Historic Building Refurbishment
19 Oct 2023
When working on refurbishment projects, fire safety experts need solid knowledge of both practice and theory to apply solutions.
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Exploring and Optimizing Innovative Construction Solutions with Holistic Structural Fire Engineering
9 Oct 2023
The holistic approach to structural fire design helps to address the important fire safety challenges related to new building products and designs.
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Sprinkler Design for Car Parks: Reducing the Impact of Electric Vehicle Fires
29 Sep 2023
A well-designed sprinkler system in a car park and other building areas can control fire spread and provide sufficient time for evacuation, potentially saving lives.
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Back Boiler Explosion Risks
31 Jul 2023
Jensen Hughes investigates many back boiler fires. Though less common now, they still happen, causing injuries or death to occupants of properties
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Choosing a Career in Forensics
4 May 2023
Getting into the forensic world can be challenging. Even after getting a degree, it can still be a struggle to obtain a job in your desired field. Having such a niche job, people often ask me how I got to where I am today.
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Lithium-ion Batteries + Fire At Sea
3 Apr 2023
The discussion about the hazards and risks arising from fires involving lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicles continues to hit the global headlines with much debate on the topic.
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Fire Strategy Development for the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings Restoration Project
20 Feb 2023
Following a £28 million refurbishment project, the 226-year-old Main Mill at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings has been reborn. Using innovative thinking, architects, builders and engineers worked together to solve the challenges presented
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Fire Safety Engineering for Data Centers Requires Specific Expertise
23 Jan 2023
Cloud services and storage require physical data centers to operate, but what is required to make them fire-safe facilities?
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6 Most Common Errors in Implementing Fire Safety Plans
17 Jan 2023
Fire safety engineering errors are very rarely a matter of design error. Most often they arise from information gaps between the work of different designers, procurement, and installers or from conflicting but overlapping designs