Advanced Fire Safety Engineering Strategies for Complex and Contemporary Buildings
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 71
Editors
Interests: fire safety legislation; modelling the evacuation of buildings in the event of fire; modelling the development and spread of fire in buildings; behavior of people in emergency situations; modelling risk in buildings; smoke control in buildings; fire detection in buildings; fire extinguishing and fire behavior of construction products
Interests: fire safety in buildings; rural and wildland fires; wildland-urban interface fires; fire behaviour; emergency planning; civil protection; risk assessment and management; forest fire prevention and suppression; resilience and safety in built environments; natural and technological risks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Advanced Fire Safety Engineering Strategies for Complex and Contemporary Buildings”, addresses challenges associated with emerging construction trends.
Contemporary buildings, characterized by high-rise configurations, complex geometries, interconnected spaces, innovative materials, advanced energy systems, and emerging construction technologies, present fire scenarios that often exceed conventional prescriptive approaches. Their assessment requires fire safety engineering, enabling performance-based design through advanced computational methods and the development of regulations, standards, and performance-based codes (PBC).
Original research contributions are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Performance-based design for contemporary architecture;
- Interdisciplinary approaches in architecture, fire engineering, and materials science;
- Advanced fire modelling and simulation;
- Digital technologies and intelligent fire safety systems;
- Fire performance of sustainable, hybrid, and emerging materials;
- Fire safety in high-rise and non-conventional buildings;
- Innovative facades and vertical fire spread;
- Evacuation modelling and occupant-centred fire safety design;
- Intelligent detection, predictive risk assessment, and resilient systems;
- Structural fire engineering and multi-hazard performance;
- Fire safety of renewable energy systems, battery storage, and electric vehicle infrastructure;
- Regulatory frameworks, standards, and PBC for emerging fire safety challenges;
- Lessons learned from recent fire events.
This Special Issue aims to advance knowledge and foster interdisciplinary solutions to improve the safety of complex buildings.
Prof. Dr. António Leça Coelho
Prof. Dr. André Rodrigues
Dr. Nuno Correia dos Santos
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- fire safety engineering
- performance-based fire design
- fire risk assessment
- fire modelling and simulation
- intelligent fire safety systems
- high-rise buildings
- sustainable and hybrid materials
- evacuation modelling
- structural fire engineering
- fire safety regulatory frameworks
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