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ADAI (Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics) is a private non-profit organization, created in 1990 by a team of researchers from the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra.
The Center for Studies on Forest Fires, is a branch of the ADAI that develops and disseminates knowledge in the field of forest fires and fires at the wildland urban- interface. The main topics of research are the fire behavior and fire safety.
ADAI is the project coordinator and, due to its area of expertise, leads the activities related to fire risk in the surroundings of the constructions.
A large part of the tests will be carried out at the Forest Fire Studies Laboratory from ADAI and in the experimental field test of Gestosa where ADAI annually organize an experimental campaign.
On September 8, 2017, AVIPG (Pedrogão Grande Fire Victims Association) officially became a non-profit private association and, on October 30, was recognized as of a public utility. Its headquarters are located at Casa Paroquial de Vila Facaia, in the municipality of Pedrógão Grande.
AVIPG’s mission is the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of people affected by the Pedrógão Grande fire event in 2017, to honor mortal victims and the wounded, as well as to promote measures that prevent the occurrence of similar tragedies.
Promote the relationship with private and public entities in the area affected by the fire event of Pedrógão Grande in June 17, 2017.
The Legal Research Institute of the Law Faculty of the University of Coimbra aims to organize research in thematic lines and groups fostering interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinary, to promote investment in applied research and to develop collaboration with national and foreign entities.
The Legal Institute of the University of Coimbra leads the surveying of the normative and legislation in the subject addressed by the project – safe constructions in fire risk areas and fuel management in the surrounding area – and the analysis of their effective application. The survey of the standards currently in force and the study of their effective application allow for a more realistic diagnosis and constitute a relevant contribution in the normative proposals that may be formulated as a result of the project.
IJFDUC will coordinate the creation of rules for constructions in wildfire prone areas, the development of constructions’ good practices and the development of persuasive or imposing legislation proposals driven by the technical project results.
itecons – Institute for Research and Technological Development for Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability is a non-profit association that works as a dynamic interface of knowledge between the scientific community and industry, providing applied research, testing, consulting services and training in the fields of construction, energy, environment and sustainability.
itecons team is composed by people with scientific know-how on structural safety of buildings in fire situations, with publications in scientific peer-review journals. Also noteworthy in the team is the participation and organization of congresses and symposia in the area of Fire Safety in Buildings, such as the Fire Safety Journeys (JORNINC) and the Civil Protection Journeys (JORPROCIV), the Ibero-Luso Conference -American Fire Safety (CILASCI) and the International Fire Safety Symposium (IFireSS).
itecons will provide knowledge and technical competence in the area of fire safety in buildings, with a special focus on the fire resistance and reaction of construction materials.
The tasks in the research project in charge of itecons are the collection of wildland urban interface fire data, survey of existing normative and regulations in the area in other countries, characterization of the wildland urban interface areas, computational simulations for the analysis of wildland urban interface fire behaviour, testing of construction solutions, proposals for alternative constructive solutions for wildland urban interface areas.
We couldn’t do it without them!
Justin Leonard has dedicated his 26 year research career to the understanding of how bushfire risk to life and infrastructure can be managed.
This research combines learnings from bushfire exposure experiments with post bushfire survey investigations and computer modelling of bushfire interactions with buildings.
The most recent activities include the development of accreditations course on bushfire risk assessment with Melbourne University, supporting the Victorian Community Bushfire Community Refuge Pilot Program, development of a risk assessment framework for Victorian Schools, Fire fighter vehicle defence system development and testing, developing the bushfire planning risk maps for Queensland, development of a comprehensive life/house loss database for Australia, and assisting various individuals and industry groups develop novel building design solutions and related standards.
Dr. Samuel L. Manzello joined the Fire Research Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is part of the United States Department of Commerce, in January 2001. Prior to his appointment at NIST, he completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2000, with a dissertation in the area of sooting and radiation in microgravity droplet combustion.
During his tenure at NIST, Dr. Manzello’s research interests have been intentionally broad, and may be best described as bringing fundamental combustion knowledge to practical problems. While serving as a National Research Council (NRC) Post-Doctoral Fellow at NIST, his research in droplet-surface interaction was featured in the journal Nature. In addition to microgravity combustion, and droplet-surface interaction, he has led investigations on soot formation in a well-stirred reactor/plug flow reactor, the physics of fire-structure interaction, and most recently Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. The renown NIST Firebrand Generator or “Dragon” has enabled the investigation of vulnerabilities of structures to wind-driven firebrand showers for the first time.
Full Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech and research scientist at the Center for Technological Risk Studies at UPC. She develops teaching and research activities in diverse fields related to wildfire management and technological risk analysis.
Over the last 20 years, she has studied several aspects of fire behavior and dynamics by a multidisciplinary approach, combining both experimental and modeling techniques in a wide range of scenarios.
She has profited from diverse fire environments (i.e. wildfires, wildfire research burning campaigns, outdoor large-scale industrial testing fields, compartment fires, laboratory set-ups, etc.) to observe monitor and analyze flames and their effect to different types of assets and ecosystems.
She has been the leader of the European Project WUIVIEW, aimed at designing, setting-up and operating a virtual workbench service for the analysis of fire risk in the surroundings of buildings at the wildland-urban interface.
She is currently leading two research projects dealing with wildland-urban interface fires: WUICOM – BCN Fire resilient communities of Barcelona aimed at developing and implementing a holistic approach to analyse risk at Barcelona metropolitan area due to WUI fires, accounting for infrastructural, societal and ecosystems vulnerabilities; and WUITIPS – Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Touristic Infrastructure Protection Solutions, an European project aimed at advancing towards a harmonised understanding of the wildfire problem in touristic areas, providing knowledge on the impact of fire on buildings, installations, cultural heritage, infrastructures and the involved population.
Dr. Greg Baker is currently a Research Director at applied fire research consultancy Fire Research Group Limited, based in Wellington, New Zealand, where he specialises in expert witness litigation projects relating to fire safety. Dr. Baker has worked in the New Zealand building and construction industry for over 35 years including in structural engineering consultancy, building product manufacturing, construction & contracting, product R&D, product testing, and research. Dr Baker has been involved in fire research for the last 25 years, primarily with a focus on compliance with performance-based building codes.
For the last six years, Dr. Baker has been collaborating with researchers from Australia, the US and New Zealand to investigate the implementation of performance-based design principles in the emerging field of wildfire engineering. Dr. Baker is also a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he is a collaborator in a research consortium which is conducting multi-disciplinary research that, inter alia, investigates the interaction between meteorology, wildland fires and urban fires, so as to reduce fire risk at the rural-urban interface.
In 2016, Dr. Baker completed his Ph.D. in fire engineering at the University of Canterbury, with a thesis in the areas of probabilistic compartment fire modelling and quantitative risk analysis. Dr. Baker is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) in Australia, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), and a Professional Member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (PMSFPE), where he chairs the SFPE Standing Committee on Research, Tools and Methods, as well as a standards making committee that is developing a new SFPE performance-based design standard for fire protection engineering practitioners.
Project Reference: PCIF/AGT/0109/2018
“Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in the Field of Wildfire Prevention and Response – 2018”
Project started on January 15, 2020 | End of the project on January 14, 2023
