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Francesca was awarded a student research grant from the SFPE Foundation, the money will be used to partially fund large-scale experiments that will be running at ITB Poland in spring/summer 2021. These experiments will investigate the mechanical performance of curtain wall facades exposed to non-uniform heating from fire.
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El-Shanawany Memorial Prize
Eirik was awarded the Dr Ashraf Ben El-Shanawany Memorial Prize! Dr El Shanawany was an Engineering Doctorate student at Imperial College, who died in 2017, shortly after finishing his thesis entitled Uncertainty Quantification in Probabilistic Safety Analysis. The prize is awarded for outstanding achievement in research, public outreach, and innovation with focus on safety. We are proud of Eirik and honoured for this medal.
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Evacuation from Wildfires grant
Imperial Hazelab is part of two research grants recently won to simulate the evacuation from wildfires. Funders are NIST in USA and RAEng (Safer Complex Systems). In the context of the ferocious wildfires in the West Coast, especially in California and Oregon, and when 500 thousand people have been evacuated from their homes, a computational tool that allows for better and faster evacuations is essential. This is a collaboration of Hazelab group with University of Lund (Sweden) . Movement Strategies (UK), RMIT (Australia), NRC (Canada) and NFPA (USA).
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The Great Fired-Up of London
Imperial College hosted Fired-up following the event’s success at the University of Edinburgh in 2018. The event is a chance for young, UK based fire researches to meet up and discuss their work in a more informal setting than a traditional conference. A total of 40 students from 4 different UK universities attended the conference. We are looking forward to the 2020 edition!