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)


