We had a very successful attendance at the Structures in Fire conference in Coimbra, Portugal. Mark Green and John Gales successfully bid for the next SIF conference to be held in Canada. The conference will be held at Dr. Gales' alma mater Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) with some events also planned in Toronto. We will…
Our YorkUfire team (Katie, Tim and Ethan) visited London UK to meet with our collaborators and friends last October. The research visit was formerly an annual event for our graduate and undergraduate team members before Covid since 2015 where they were given a chance to share their research with collaborators, and we are quite happy…
Its been awhile since we have updated the community on our progress at York University. You can follow our research activities. So this post serves as this update following a seperate posting in the IAFSS newsletter Recent Research Projects When lab restrictions came into place back in March 2020, a number of data collection initiatives…
Our research team traveled to Naples Italy to attend the IfireSS conference. Ben Nicoletta presented his paper to a keen audience. The paper, Performance of Gfrp stay-in- place Form work for Bridge Dec ks after Real and Simulated Fire Damage (download here) was an interesting work with collaboration from University of Waterloo and Queen's University. It is a…
Very exciting to announce that effective this year I am joining John Wiley's journal, Fire and Materials as an Associate Editor. In this role I will be considering mainly the structural materials papers. Fire and Materials is one of the more older peer reviewed journals for our research community beginning in 1976. The journal is…
The MGM Grand Fire occurred on November 21st 1980. It represents a significant case study in the study of Human Behavior in fire as well as for smoke dynamics. About 87 people were killed in this fire. Recently I had a chance to visit and talk to certain staff members at the current building over…
Welcome to the first entry of this website. The website, galesfiresafety.com is meant to compile my research activities in one location. While not ‘everything’ I am involved with will be found here, I do believe this platform offers unique advantages for public engagement and accessibility. On this website you will find details of my current…
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