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Presentations from the most recent Structures in Fire Forum 

10th April 2026 - The Diamond, University of Sheffield [Agenda]


  • “Fire Resistance Tests and Analysis of Plasterboard-Encased Steel Columns under Standard Conditions”. Octavian Lalu, Building Research Establishment BRE [pdf, 2.9 MB]
  • Fire testing method for passive fire protection exposed to natural fire curves”.  Clifford Chinaya & Arnoud Breunese, Efectis France & Etex Group (respectively) [pdf, 1.9 MB]
  • “Data centre prescriptive temperature approach”.  Lee Kenneth Taylor, Akzo Nobel UK Ltd [pdf, 1.1 MB]
  • “The wind effect on the disproportionate collapse of an open-sided steel-concrete composite floor car park in travelling fires” Morvarid Koohkhezri, University of Liverpool  [pdf, 4.9 MB]
  • “Heat transfer in concrete-filled steel tubes”.  Rwayda Al Hamd, The University of Manchester  [pdf, 1.8 MB]
  • “Concrete in Fire: Thermo-Hygro-Mechanical Coupling, Pore Pressure Build-Up, and Material Degradation.” Giacomo Torelli, The University of Sheffield [pdf, 3.4 MB]
  • “An applied methodology for the inclusion of travelling fires in the fire safety design process of a building”. Jorge Cisneros, Stantec UK  [pdf, 1.9 MB]
  • “Travelling or Parametric fire curves? A data-driven model for building fire risk assessment in performance-based design”.  Qingfeng Xu, University of Manchester [pdf, 3.6 MB]
  • “Why Eurocode parametric fire design framework cannot maintain target reliability through cooling- A first principles analysis”. Ankit Agrawal, Jacobs [pdf, 1.6 MB]

Structures in Fire Forum Presentations for previous fourms:

  • September 2025 - IStructE
  • April 2025 - Edinburgh
  • September 2024 - IStructE
  • May 2024 - Liverpool
  • September 2023 - IStructE
  • May 2023 - Edinburgh
  • September 2022 - IStructE
  • April 2019 - IStructE
  • September 2018 - Warwick University
  • April 2018 - IStuctE
  • September 2017 - University of Edinburgh
  • April 2017 - IStructE
  • September 2016 - University of Edinburgh
  • April 2016 - IStructE

Repository of presentations from historic Steel in Fire Forums (pre-2016 presentations can be found at www.steelinfire.org.uk