Building Design + Construction

Fire modeling for high risk, airtight facilities: Practical guidance for reliable CFD simulations in critical facilities

Simulating fires in airtight or mechanically ventilated compartments—such as those found in nuclear facilities and ...
NBC Montana

Missoula fire lab maps wildfire risk using data from 30,000 communities nationwide

MISSOULA, Mont. — At the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, the Fire Modeling Institute pools data from over 30,000 communities across the country to calculate wildfire risk. The mapping process is ...
Firehouse

How GIS, Advanced Communications & Predictive Modeling Are Transforming Fire Department Disaster Response

Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ensure that staffing, to whatever extent, is utilized most effectively. A ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Beats Traditional Weather Models in Forecasting Wildfires

Artificial intelligence is improving the accuracy of fire forecasts made by Europe’s top intergovernmental weather center. Traditional fire forecasts are largely based on weather models that predict ...