Following the successful conferences held in Nancy (France) in 2018 and in Barcelona (Spain) in 2024, the 5^th European Symposium on Fire Safety Science (ESFSS) will be organized and hosted by the Department for Fire-Safe Sustainable Built Environment (FRISSBE) at the Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG).

The symposium is scheduled to take place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from September 3^rd to 5^th, 2025.

The symposium series aims to gather researchers from and beyond Europe to exchange ideas and discuss fire safety science.

VENUE

Grand Hotel Union Eurostars. 

Miklošičeva cesta 1, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

PRE-EVENT 

PROGRAM

The program typically foresees oral and poster sessions for the presentation of fully peer-reviewed papers over the three days, including invited plenary lectures from world’s top fire science researchers.

The main topics of the symposium will be:

• Material behaviour in fire (ignition, pyrolysis, heat transfer, flame spread, flammability, smoke production, smouldering, …)
• Fire dynamics (fire plumes, compartment fires, tunnel fires, fire detection and suppression, facades, smoke transport, …)
• Large outdoor fires (wildland fires, wildland-urban interface fires, urban conflagrations, …)
• Structure-fire interactions (thermal and mechanical response of construction materials in fire, steel, concrete, timber and composite structures in fire, …)
• Fire safety engineering (industrial fire safety, fire hazard, risk analysis, resilience, evacuation and human behaviour, performance-based design, fire forensics, …)
• Fire safety and sustainability (bio-based materials, battery fires, electrical vehicles, battery & energy storage systems, solar panels, health and environmental considerations, fire emissions and toxicity, sustainability calculations, …)

Technical sessions will be dedicated to each topic, with selected oral presentations followed by poster sessions.

The symposium is endorsed by the International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS).
IAFSS will award three prizes: the Best Paper Award, the Best Poster Award, And the Best Presentation Award.

Organizers:

FRISSBE       

ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute)

Local Organizing Committee:

• Grunde Jomaas
• Andrea Lucherini
• Urša Blumauer
• Aleš Jug
• Ulises Rojas Alva
• Laetitia Marrot

For registration, please visit this link: REGISTRATION