Guest Editorial: SiF'08 Special Issues 1 & 2 Journal of Fire Technology

摘要

Structural fire safety is one of the key considerations in buildings since fire represents one of the most severe environmental hazards encountered by the built infrastructure. A number of recent white papers and reports, commissioned following the 9-11 disaster where fires played a severe destructive role, conclude that there is serious lack of data, tools, technologies and qualified personnel to facilitate structural fire safety design. This was mainly attributed to the fact that within the area of fire science, structural fire safety is the least developed. In addition, there are very few forums (conferences and workshops) devoted to structural fire engineering theme, for researchers and practitioners to exchanges their research results and learn the work of others.