BEEE Research Student Received Sheldon Tieszen Student Award at IAFSS

The Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering (BEEE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is pleased to share the news that BEEE PhD student Tianwei Chu has received the prestigious Sheldon Tieszen Student Award for the excellence of research paper presented in the 14th International symposium on fire safety science (IAFSS 2023, top conference of the field).

The award was presented by the Chairman of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) and are sponsored by the International FORUM of Fire Research Directors. The International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, a triennial event organized by the IAFSS since 1985, is widely recognized as the most important academic gathering in the field of fire safety science. The Sheldon Tieszen Student Awards were established to recognize the excellence in an IAFSS symposium paper in fire safety science by a student making a significant contribution to that paper..

The award-winning research paper is titled ‘Introducing an Active Opening Strategy to Mitigate Large Open-Plan Compartment Fire Development’, which introduces a novel fire control strategy ‘Active Opening’ to mitigate the fast fire spread in large open-plan compartments. This research was advised by Dr Jiang Liming  (his chief supervisor) with the help from Professor Asif Sohail Usmani (his co-supervisor). The research was based on PolyU’s recent investigations on fire development mechanisms in modern building compartments, and it has received highly praising feedback after Tianwei’s presentation in IAFSS.

We would like to offer the warmest congratulations to Tianwei for his outstanding achievement in IAFSS. For more information about ‘active opening’, please follow the research led by Dr Jiang Liming and view the VR videos of the recent demonstration tests using scaled compartments.

(https://youtu.be/NlUvKoxewjs?si=hvvcTBaHKiuT-KC5 )