The investigations: The World Trade Center towers
On Aug. 21, 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced it would conduct a building and fire safety investigation of the World Trade Center disaster. This investigation was conducted...

Arizona Train Derailment and Fire Damage Historical Bridge

Ready to Withstand the Fire

Nordic Hotel Combines Fire and Ice

Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
Civil engineers have responsibilities for the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of physical infrastructures. These infrastructures include all types of buildings,...

Business at the Speed of Now: Fire Up Your People, Thrill Your Customers, and Crush Your Competitors By John M. Bernard. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

Bird on Fire: Lessons From the World's Least Sustainable City By Andrew Ross. New York City: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2011.

Scenic Railroad to Repair Fire-Damaged Crossing

NewsBriefs: New NIST Facilities to Study Fire Resistance, Energy Consumption (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

NIST: World Trade Center Building 7 is First Known Case of a Tall Building Collapsing 'Primarily' from Fire

Highways: Tunnel Fire Prompts Rapid Response from Caltrans

NewsBriefs: U.K. Universities Study Cooling Stages of Building Fires (The Engineer Online)

NewsBriefs: Fire Testing Facility Opens at Michigan State (Michigan State University)

Fire Following Earthquake
Prepared by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE. This TCLEE Monograph covers the entire range of fire following earthquake...

Post-Fire Predictions of Peak Discharge

Post Cerro Grande Fire Channel Morphology in Lower Pueblo Canyon: And Storm Water Transport of Plutonium 239/240 in Suspended Sediments

Modeling Post Wildfire Floods Using Mike

Book Review: Fire Following Earthquake edited by Charles Scawthorn, John M. Eidinger, and Anshel J. Schiff. Reston, Virginia: ASCE Press, 2005

Book Review: Building Fire Performance Analysis by Robert W. Fitzgerald. Chichester, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Book Review: Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, 2005

 

 

 

 

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