Sentence examples for fire engineer from inspiring English sources

This final quality played a pivotal role in its decline as a structural material for large buildings, says David Barber, a Washington, D.C.-based fire engineer and expert in wooden buildings at the engineering firm Arup.

Fire engineer Jowsey, who still has a year left of his CASE studentship, would like to work as a fire specialist at an engineering consulting firm.

Around San Diego County, firefighters wore black bands on their badges in memory of Steve Rucker, 38, a fire engineer from the Novato Fire Protection District near San Francisco, who died on Wednesday while fighting the Cedar Fire near Wynola.

Fire engineer Jowsey agrees that the pace of research in industry can be faster.

Barber, the fire engineer, says that much of the rap against wood reflects confusion between familiar wood-framed buildings, built of small, combustible lumber, and tall ones with massive timbers.

Where fire engineering methods can be used, i.e., in a performance-based Building Code environment, little guidance is given and solutions rest with the specific fire engineer whose knowledge and experience is relied on to provide the complying solution.

With rapid developments in performance-based fire engineering, computer evacuation models have been widely used by fire engineers and government officials in fire safety design of buildings.

Statistical analysis of previous fire incidents in the UK has been carried out with the intent of providing an evidence base in the creation of a decision support system tool for UK fire engineering consultants to aid in the design of cost effective fire engineered structures.

Despite the progress made in bringing their models to fire engineers, the researchers admit that firefighters are reluctant to embrace the technology, preferring in most cases to rely on their experience and traditional methods.

By then, a small group of fire engineers had already begun to discredit many of the assumptions employed in fire investigations, like the practice of using the amount of heat radiated by a fire to assess if an accelerant had been used.

Fire engineers are in general, aware of their duties under Building legislation.