... disaster engineering fire engineering The Buncefield terminal in Hertfordshire, UK was a collection of fuel storage tanks, known as a tank farm, and associated incoming and outgoing supply pipelines and equipment to fill road tankers. The impermeability requirement for walls and bases...

... to keep pace with the latest developments in the building industry and fire engineering science. Key revisions include the mandatory requirement in 1973 for automatic sprinkler systems for new commercial buildings over 30 m high, which was extended to all new commercial buildings irrespective of height...

...Yong Wang, BA, PhD, CEng, FIStructE It is over a decade since the UK's Cardington fire research programme began and eight years since the collapse of the US World Trade Center, two events that have shaped research on fire engineering of steel and composite structures. Successful performance...

..., are also discussed. The 2007 fire in the Burnley tunnel in Australia is highlighted as an example of an incident where technology prevented the initial fire growing into a catastrophe. fire engineering safety & hazards tunnels & tunnelling The catastrophic fire in the Mont Blanc road...