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<div style="font-size:0.76em; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:0.16em; color:#C0D4E7;">FIRE SAFETY ACADEMY · WIKI</div>
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<p style="font-size:1.03em; color:#DDE8F2; max-width:41em; margin:0;">A growing reference for students, engineers and fire safety professionals. Explore the science of fire, building protection and the methods used to assess safety.</p>
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<div style="display:flex; align-items:center; gap:0.8em; margin:0.9em 0;"><span style="color:#F5B17B; font-size:1.3em; font-weight:bold;">01</span><span>Understand fire</span></div>
<div style="display:flex; align-items:center; gap:0.8em; margin:0.9em 0;"><span style="color:#A8D4F4; font-size:1.3em; font-weight:bold;">02</span><span>Protect buildings</span></div>
<div style="display:flex; align-items:center; gap:0.8em; margin:0.9em 0;"><span style="color:#98DDD5; font-size:1.3em; font-weight:bold;">03</span><span>Assess safety</span></div>
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<h2 id="Learning_levels" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:1.55em; font-weight:700; color:#142B42; border:0; margin:0 0 0.2em; padding:0;">Choose a starting point</h2>
<p style="color:#526475; margin:0 0 1.2em;">Four levels of depth, from first principles to specialist analysis. Start with one of these topics.</p>
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<div style="font-size:0.76em; letter-spacing:0.09em; font-weight:bold; color:#1971C2;">LEVEL 01</div>
<h3 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:1.25em; color:#142B42; padding:0; margin:0.2em 0 0.55em;">Basic</h3>
<div style="font-size:0.91em; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:0.4em;">Start with the essentials</div>
<p style="font-size:0.88em; color:#526475; margin:0;">Clear explanations of what fire safety concepts mean and why they matter.</p>
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<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Fire safety engineering]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Fire triangle]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Heat transfer]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Compartment fire]]</li>
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<div style="font-size:0.76em; letter-spacing:0.09em; font-weight:bold; color:#0C7889;">LEVEL 02</div>
<h3 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:1.25em; color:#142B42; padding:0; margin:0.2em 0 0.55em;">Intermediate</h3>
<div style="font-size:0.91em; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:0.4em;">Understand how it works</div>
<p style="font-size:0.88em; color:#526475; margin:0;">Explore physical principles, protection systems and the steps in fire safety design.</p>
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<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Design fire]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Fire safety strategy]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Available safe egress time|Available safe egress time (ASET)]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Required safe egress time|Required safe egress time (RSET)]]</li>
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<div style="font-size:0.76em; letter-spacing:0.09em; font-weight:bold; color:#B84B15;">LEVEL 03</div>
<h3 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:1.25em; color:#142B42; padding:0; margin:0.2em 0 0.55em;">Advanced</h3>
<div style="font-size:0.91em; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:0.4em;">Connect theory and calculation</div>
<p style="font-size:0.88em; color:#526475; margin:0;">Study calculation methods, test methods and worked engineering examples.</p>
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<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Thermal inertia]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Tenability criteria]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Fire Dynamics Simulator|Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Sensitivity analysis]]</li>
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<div style="font-size:0.76em; letter-spacing:0.09em; font-weight:bold; color:#70489A;">LEVEL 04</div>
<h3 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:1.25em; color:#142B42; padding:0; margin:0.2em 0 0.55em;">Expert</h3>
<div style="font-size:0.91em; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:0.4em;">Examine models and uncertainty</div>
<p style="font-size:0.88em; color:#526475; margin:0;">Investigate specialist models, detailed analyses and the limits of their application.</p>
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<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[MQH correlation]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Mesh resolution]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Verification and validation]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Uncertainty analysis]]</li>
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<p style="color:#526475; margin:0 0 1.2em;">Browse all 19 categories, or go straight to an article below each category.</p>
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<h3 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:#142B42; font-size:1.35em; margin:0.3em 0 0.45em; padding:0;">Understand fire</h3>
<p style="font-size:0.89em; color:#43576A; margin:0;">From combustion and heat transfer to fire growth, smoke and its effects.</p>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Combustion|Combustion]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Combustion]] · [[Stoichiometry]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Physics & Heat Transfer|Physics & Heat Transfer]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Heat transfer]] · [[Thermal diffusivity]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Ignition & Flame Spread|Ignition & Flame Spread]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Ignition]] · [[Flame spread]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Fire Dynamics|Fire Dynamics]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Heat release rate]] · [[Fire plume]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Enclosure Fires|Enclosure Fires]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Compartment fire]] · [[Flashover]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Smoke, Toxicity & Tenability|Smoke, Toxicity & Tenability]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Smoke]] · [[Tenability criteria]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.75em; font-weight:bold; color:#1971C2; letter-spacing:0.1em;">SUBJECT COLLECTION 02</div>
<h3 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:#142B42; font-size:1.35em; margin:0.3em 0 0.45em; padding:0;">Protect buildings</h3>
<p style="font-size:0.89em; color:#43576A; margin:0;">Materials, structures and the systems used to detect, contain and control fire.</p>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Materials & Fire Testing|Materials & Fire Testing]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Reaction to fire]] · [[Fire testing]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Structural Fire Engineering|Structural Fire Engineering]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Fire resistance]] · [[Steel in fire]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Passive Fire Protection|Passive Fire Protection]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Fire compartmentation]] · [[Firestopping]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Detection & Alarm|Detection & Alarm]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Fire alarm system]] · [[Smoke detector]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Fire Suppression|Fire Suppression]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Sprinkler system]] · [[Water mist system]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Smoke Control|Smoke Control]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Smoke control]] · [[Stair pressurisation]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.75em; font-weight:bold; color:#0C7889; letter-spacing:0.1em;">SUBJECT COLLECTION 03</div>
<h3 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:#142B42; font-size:1.35em; margin:0.3em 0 0.45em; padding:0;">Assess safety</h3>
<p style="font-size:0.89em; color:#43576A; margin:0;">People, modelling and risk, from design decisions to complex hazards and fire service operations.</p>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Human Behaviour & Evacuation|Human Behaviour & Evacuation]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Evacuation]] · [[Human behaviour in fire]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Fire Modelling|Fire Modelling]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Fire modelling]] · [[Computational fluid dynamics|Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Fire Safety Design & Regulation|Fire Safety Design & Regulation]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Performance-based design]] · [[Building regulations]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Fire Risk Analysis|Fire Risk Analysis]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Fire risk assessment]] · [[Quantitative risk assessment|Quantitative risk assessment (QRA)]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Explosions & Industrial Fires|Explosions & Industrial Fires]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Explosion]] · [[Hydrogen safety]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Firefighting & Fire Service|Firefighting & Fire Service]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Firefighting]] · [[Fire service access]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:0.96em; font-weight:bold;">[[:Category:Special Hazards & Building Types|Special Hazards & Building Types]]</div>
<div style="font-size:0.83em; line-height:1.7; margin-top:0.2em;">[[Lithium-ion battery fire]] · [[High-rise building]]</div>
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<h2 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:1.12em; font-weight:bold; color:#142B42; margin:0 0 0.4em; padding:0; border:0;">About this knowledge base</h2>
<p style="font-size:0.88em; margin:0;">The Fire Safety Academy Wiki connects fire science with engineering practice. Articles are organised by subject and written at four levels of depth, with references and links to related concepts.</p>
<p style="font-size:0.84em; color:#526475; margin:0.6em 0 0;">The wiki is growing. Red links mark pages that have not yet been created.</p>
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<div style="font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:0.4em;">Keep exploring</div>
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<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Special:AllPages|All articles, A–Z]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Special:Categories|Categories with articles]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]]</li>
<li style="margin:0.3em 0;">[[Talk:Main Page|Discuss this page]]</li>
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FIRE SAFETY ACADEMY · WIKI
Fire safety engineering.
From fundamentals
to expert practice.

A growing reference for students, engineers and fire safety professionals. Explore the science of fire, building protection and the methods used to assess safety.

A CONNECTED FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE
01Understand fire
02Protect buildings
03Assess safety
4 learning levels · 19 subject areas

Choose a starting point

Four levels of depth, from first principles to specialist analysis. Start with one of these topics.

LEVEL 01

Basic

Start with the essentials

Clear explanations of what fire safety concepts mean and why they matter.

LEVEL 02

Intermediate

Understand how it works

Explore physical principles, protection systems and the steps in fire safety design.

LEVEL 03

Advanced

Connect theory and calculation

Study calculation methods, test methods and worked engineering examples.

LEVEL 04

Expert

Examine models and uncertainty

Investigate specialist models, detailed analyses and the limits of their application.

Explore by subject

Browse all 19 categories, or go straight to an article below each category.

About this knowledge base

The Fire Safety Academy Wiki connects fire science with engineering practice. Articles are organised by subject and written at four levels of depth, with references and links to related concepts.

The wiki is growing. Red links mark pages that have not yet been created.

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