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Engineering LaboratoryFire Research Division

# Engineered Fire Safety Group

The Engineered Fire Safety Group develops and applies measurement science for cost-effective fire protection and risk-informed life safety decisions for buildings and wildland-urban interface communities.

## Welcome

The Engineered Fire Safety Group also develops advanced, validated models with quantified accuracy and integrates the knowledge, tools, and models to assess building performance with respect to
                    - ignition,
                    - fire growth and spread,
                    - detection,
                    - suppression,
                    - toxicity, and
                    - egress.

**Post-Doc Program** Outstanding applicants are sought for a number of postdoctoral fellowships available through the National Research Council Program. Group members act as research advisors for Post-Doctoral Fellows in a variety of project areas.

## Highlights

                    - Fire Safety in Passenger Rail Transportation
                    - Home Smoke Alarm Tests
                    - Less Fire-Prone Cigarettes
                    -  Next Generation Fire Suppression Technology 
                    -  Safety of Building Occupants, Building Egress 
                    -  Fire on the Web 
                    -  CFAST, Fire Growth and Smoke Transport Modeling 
                    -  FDS / Smokeview 

Staff Directory

## News and Updates

### A Machine Learning-Based Solution Could Help Firefighters Circumvent Deadly Backdrafts

October 17, 2022

### New Fire-Simulating Tool Could Improve In-Flight Fire Safety

March 24, 2021

### NIST/NASA Study Shows One Detector Doesn’t ‘Fit All’ for Smoke in Spacecraft

May 1, 2018

### Mobile ‘Dual-Comb’ Device Significantly Improves Methane Leak Detection

March 22, 2018

View All News and Updates

## Projects and Programs

### Fire Risk Reduction in Buildings Program

### Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Transport

### Residential Fire Safety Innovation

### Safety of Building Occupants Project

View All Projects/Programs

## Publications

### Compartment fires: challenges for fire modeling as a tool for safe design

February 1, 2024

Anthony  Hamins

### Numerical simulations of flame spread in pine needle beds using simple thermal decomposition models

July 31, 2023

Eric  Mueller

### Measuring Firebrand Heat Flux with a Thin-Skin Calorimeter

July 11, 2023

Amy  MenschSavannah  WessiesAnthony  HaminsJiann C.  Yang

### Experimental Studies on the Heat Flux of Individual Firebrands

March 22, 2023

Amy  MenschSavannah  WessiesAnthony  HaminsJiann C.  Yang

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## Awards

### 2021 - Diversity, Inclusivity and Equal Employment Opportunity Award---Amy Mensch, Brandi Toliver, Jeanita Pritchett, Jenise Reyes-Rodriguez, Ashley Beasley Green, Diana Ortiz-Montalvo, Kelley Rogers, Kelly Telu, Ileana Pazos, Tara Fortier

### 2016 - Silver Medal Award---Kevin McGrattan, Randall McDermott, Glenn Forney, Craig Weinschenk, Richard Peacock, Anthony Hamins, Blaza Toman

### 2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Richard Peacock, Paul Reneke, Charles Hagwood, Michael Selepak, Marco Fernandez, Jason Averill, Erica Kuligowski

### Kuldeep Prasad Receives CO-Labs Governor's Award for High Impact Research

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