FSEG NEWS


These pages contain NEWS concerning FSEG activities.

Under RESEARCH NEWS can be found information concerning FSEG achievements, staff news, new FSEG projects and new developments within FSEG.
Under SOFTWARE NEWS can be found the latest information concerning the entire range of FSEG software products.



(A) Research News
(B) Software News
(C) Press Releases
(D) News Archive
(E) Press Release Archive


(A) Research News: back

This section lists all news concerning FSEG staff and their research activities.

[16/05/22]new pic FSEG welcome new PhD student Timothy Crow to the team.  
FSEG welcomed a new PhD research student, Timothy Crow, to the SMARTFIRE team.  Using the SMARTFIRE CFD fire simulation software, Tim’s project will investigate issues affecting the spread of fire over external cladding systems in high-rise buildings and approaches to reduce the impact of such fires.


[04/09/19] FSEG in collaboration with Multiplex and funding from IOSH, has completed a unique study into the evacuation of high-rise construction sites. The study involved four unannounced full-scale evacuation trials using two different high-rise construction sites, a series of five controlled evacuation experiments on construction sites and some 1900 computer simulations of high-rise construction site evacuation.

 
Logistics

The project had six aims and objectives, the most important being to:

Findings

A summary of the project findings and a link to the full report and collected data can be found below.


[21/05/15] FSEG PhD student wins inaugural SFPE Guylene Proulx Scholarship.

Robert Brown, FSEG PhD student (member of staff at Memorial University Canada) has been awarded the SFPE Foundation first annual Dr. Guylène Proulx, OC Scholarship. This award was established in 2014 in honour of Dr. Guylène Proulx, an outstanding researcher in human factors and human behaviour related to fire, and a passionate advocate for fire safety awareness. The grant will go towards funding Mr. Brown’s PhD project entitled “Collection, Analysis and Implementation of Human Performance Data from Planned Assembly Trials on Passenger Ships at Sea.” Rob’s PhD is based on work FSEG undertook as part of the EU FP7 SAFEGUARD project.

More information can be found in the UoG press release and the SFPE press release.

SFPE Foundation logo Dr. Guylène Proulx



[30/05/14] FSEG win Medal of Distinction from The Royal Institution of Naval Architects.

Robert Brown, Prof Ed Galea, Dr Steven Deere and Mr Lazaros Filippidis from FSEG have won the 2014 Medal of Distinction from the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA). The award is made for the best paper to appear in the The Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, International Journal of Maritime Engineering in 2013. The paper was entitled:

"Passenger Response Time Data-Sets for Large Passenger Ferries and Cruise Ships Derived from Sea Trials"

The paper was published in the RINA Journal, The Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, International Journal of Maritime Engineering, Vol 155, Part A2, pp A97-A103, April-June 2013.

Prof Ed Galea accepting the award from the RINA President The Medal of Distinction
Prof Ed Galea accepting the award from the RINA President The Medal of Distinction


Further photographs may be found on the FSEG Facebook pages.


[26/02/14] FSEG win The Guardian University Award for Research Impact

In acknowledgement of FSEG’s work on developing the IADSS concept and its contribution to the GETAWAY project, FSEG was awarded the prestigious Research Impact Award for 2014 as part of The Guardian University Awards. A full account of the award and the citation can be found on The Guardian web pages and photographs may be found on the FSEG Facebook pages.

The Guardian University Awards Winner 2014 The Guardian University Awards Winner 2014 - Team photograph by James Turner
Team photograph by James Turner


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(B) Software News: back

This section lists latest news concerning FSEG software products.

[04/08/23] new pic maritimeEXODUS V6.1 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

A number of previously reported software bugs have also addressed in the V6.1 release. 



[31/05/2017] buildingEXODUS v6.3 IS NOW AVAILABLE!


[11/11/2013] SMARTFIRE v4.3 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

The release of SMARTFIRE V4.3 incorporated several significant additions to the SMARTFIRE CFD engine.

VERSION 4.3 MODIFICATIONS

 

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