2024 11006 PhD School of the Nordic Fire and Safety Network focus on Energy - Buildings and transportation

Welcome to the summerschool Sustainable safety in buildings and transportation

Purpose

The purpose of this PhD summer school course is to introduce the field of fire safety and risk management coupled with energy and digitization. The course is held every four years, and in turn with the course 41007. The course is held by DTU and The Nordic Fire & Safety Network (NFSN), uniting the major Nordic Universities and Research Institutes dealing with fire safety and risk management. Professors from the Technical University of Denmark, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Lund University, Aalto University, Luleå University of Technology, University of Stavanger, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and Iceland University as well as VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and the Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology are involved in the network and will teach this course.

Language: English

Points (ECTS): 2,5

Type: PhD, special course

Time: 70 hours on place in Lund, Sweden and online

Registration 

Please register through sending a mail to nfsn@byg.dtu.dk, subject: summerschool 2024

 

Place:
Online and at RISE, Scheelevägen 17, Lund, 22363, Sverige

Dates and requirements:

1.5.2024-1.9.2024

In present 17.6.2024-20.6.2024

The course starts 1.5.2024 with a one day online meeting. The course consists of home work, a 4-day course (17-20 June 24), further home work with in projects. 2 days (17 and 20.6.2024) lectures, group work and presentations by the students as well as 2 days conference (18-19.6.2024). The course participants must work on a project linked to their PhD project and present their work.

 

Goals:

A student who has fully met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Identify and present relevant topics and areas in relation to own PhD project

2. Discuss basic issues in the seminars presented

3. Use basic tools to manage your own PhD. project

4. Communicate research using "Storytelling"

5. Construct a poster using basic graphic principles

6. Give a 3-minute pitch

7. Evaluate the topics presented from a technical-scientific point of view

8. Understand essential professional themes of NFSNergy

Content

  1. Presentation of ongoing PhD-research
  2. Pressure management in air-tight buildings (Aalto/Iceland)
  3. Risk Management (LTH Risk)
  4. Building materials and construction
    1. Ageing of Material (Anna Sandinge, RISE)
    2. Challenges in structural fire safety design (DTU)
    3. Combustible insulation, wood (NTNU)
    4. Cable fires (LTU)
  5. System safety (UiS)
  6. Fire safety BIM (DTU/RISE)
  7. Project selection
    1. Group division
    2. Discussion and selection of ideas
  8. Project presentation

Literature reference will be uploaded

Teaching method: The course consists of a 3-day course (Digital), home within projects. And 2 days presentations by the students (during corona digital, elsewise in June). The course participants must work on a project linked to their PhD project and present their work. Furthermore, the students are expected to participate in the Nordic Fire & Safety Days 2024. 

Evaluation       Pass/not pass – reports and exercises

Required attendance at the 3-day seminar, active participation in all seminar days and preparation of a Popular Science Summary (writing and video) of their PhD project and a project presentation of a project developed for and in the course.

Responsible

Associate professor Anne Dederichs Lyngby Campus, Bygning 118, Tlf. (+46) 705215117Anne.Dederichs@ri.se

Professor Anne Steen-Hansen, NTNU,

Professor Margaret McNamee and Marcus Abrahamsson, Lund University

Associate professor Simo Hostikka, Aalto University

Professor Bjørn Karlsson, University of Iceland

Associate professor Luisa Giuliani, Lars Schiøtt Sørensen, Technical University of Denmark

Professor Michael Försth, Luleå Technical University

Associate professor Henrik Bjelland and Professor Ove Njå, University Stavanger

Researcher Ragni Mikalsen and Anna Sandinge, RISE

Researcher Bjarne Husted DBI

Researcher Tuula Hakkarainen

Institute: Dept. of civil engineering, Technical University of Denmark

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