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Engineering Laboratory / Fire Research Division

Engineered Fire Safety Group

Projects/Programs

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Advanced Fire Modeling

Ongoing
This project develops and maintains robust, validated fire models—and the associated visualization and analysis tools—for performance-based fire safety, forensics (fire reconstruction), and fire research applications in the built and natural environments.
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Building Fire Safety Evaluation

Ongoing
This project aims to reduce residential fire deaths and injuries by advancing detection systems, researching smoke measurements, and evaluating new technologies' impact on safety. It develops datasets and models to assess building fire hazards, informing better codes, standards, and public awareness efforts.
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Transport

Completed
This project develops a high-accuracy reference system for near-industrial-scale CO2 measurements, providing a framework for low-uncertainty emissions data and improving atmospheric dispersion models to reduce uncertainties in greenhouse gas source predictions.
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Safety of Building Occupants Project

Completed
By 2016, this project aims to develop a framework for a model predicting evacuation decision-making during building fires, improving the accuracy of egress modeling tools used in performance-based design (PBD) of buildings.