This is our first newsletter to share with youourrecentmovementincludingthepresencein SiF 2024 atCoimbraand thedynamicdiscussionduringtheconference about ourrecentlyestablish

Hong Kong PolyU teamled by Prof JIANG Liming has successfully won a 4 million grant from Faculty of Construction and Environment to build a hybrid testing facility, which aims to conduct synchronized testing between a structural system model in OpenSees for fire and the specimen test. Th

Philip Thomas Medal is a prestigious award of IAFSS for the best paper presented in previous IAFSS. There is only one paper selected in every three years. IAFSS is International Association of Fire Safety Science and the International Symposium of Fire Sasfety Science. The paper awarded

Dr Liming Jiang has received Outstanding Reviewer Award for his excellent reviewing service to the Journal of Structural Engineering.

Dr Liming Jiang (Vice Director of International Research Lab on Fire Safety Engineering) has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in Hong Kong Polytechnic University.\

On January 21, 2025, a real-time early warning fire-induced collapse test of a two-story steel frame building was successfully conducted in Shanghai by Prof. Guo-Qiang Li's research team from Tongji University.The other institutions participating in the test include Shanghai Fire Science R