Publications

2010

Baker, G., Spearpoint, M., Wade, C and Fleischmann, C. “Development of a Radiative Fire Spread Sub Model for an Enhanced Zone Model”. Submitted for presentation at the Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology.

Baker, G.B., Spearpoint, M.J., Wade, C.A. and Fleischmann, C.M. “Selecting an Ignition Criterion Methodology for use in a Radiative Fire Spread Submodel”. Fire & Materials (accepted for publication).

Fleury, R. “Evaluation of Thermal Radiation Models for Fire Spread Between Objects”, Masters of Engineering in Fire Engineering thesis, Dept. of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010.

Fleischmann, C.M. Han, Y.Z. Caldwell, C.A. and Saunders, N. Case Study Building Specifications - A New Zealand Approach, 8th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Lund, Sweden.

Baker G, Saunders, N, Kennedy, K. “Delivery of Passive Fire Protection in a Performance-Based Regulatory Environment”, Proc. 8th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Design Methods, Lund, Sweden, June 2010.

Robbins, A.P.  Wade, C.A. and Baker, G.B. Characterising Fire Scenarios Based on New Zealand Fire Incident Data. 8th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Lund, Sweden.

Wickström, U. Robbins A. and Baker G. “The use of adiabatic surface temperature to design structures for fire exposure”, Proceedings of the sixth international conference structures in fire, V. Kodur, J-M. Franssen, Eds., DEStech Publishing Inc., Lancaster, PA, US, pp. 951-958.

Baker, G.B. Performance-Based Fire Safety Engineering. BUILD 118 Magazine, June/July 2010. 

Robbins, A.P.  & Wade, C.A.  
BRANZ Study Report 222
BRANZ Ltd, Judgeford, New Zealand
Residential New Zealand fire statistics - part 1 - initial analysis

Robbins, A.P.  & Wade, C.A.  
BRANZ Study Report 223
BRANZ Ltd, Judgeford, New Zealand
Residential New Zealand fire statistics - part 2 - two-level event tree analysis

2009

Baker, G.B and Wade, C.A.
Development of Probabalistic Design and Analysis Tools for Performance-based Fire Safety Engineering.
Paper presented at 2009 International Symposium on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering.
17th October 2009, Beijing, China. 

Robbins A. P. and Collier P. C. R.
BRANZ Study Report 206
BRANZ Ltd, Judgeford, New Zealand
Heat Flux Measurements: Experiments and Modelling

2008

Wade, C.  “Conceptual Framework for Performance-Based Fire Engineering Design in the New Zealand Building Code: Specification of Fire Scenarios”, 7th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Auckland, New Zealand, April 2008.

Fleischmann, C. “Conceptual Framework for Performance-Based Fire Engineering Design in the New Zealand Building Code: Specification of the Design Fire”, 7th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Auckland, New Zealand, April 2008.

Lloyd, D, and Fleischmann, C. “Benchmarking Life Safety for the Proposed Fire Performance Framework in the Next Generation New Zealand Building Code”, 7th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Auckland, New Zealand, April 2008.

Wade, C.A. and Robbins, A.P.
BRANZ Study Report No. 195
BRANZ Ltd, Judgeford, New Zealand
Smoke filling in large spaces using BRANZFIRE

Collier P. C. R. and Whiting P. N.
BRANZ Study Report 194
BRANZ Ltd, Judgeford, New Zealand
Timeline for Incipient Fire Development

Robbins A. P. and Wade C. A.
BRANZ Study Report 185
BRANZ Ltd, Judgeford, New Zealand
Soot Yield Values for Modelling Purposes - Residential Occupancies

C R Thomas
University of Canterbury
Study of Full Scale Fire Test Results Versus BRANZFIRE Zone Model Output (PDF, 3.1 Mb)

2007

Tobeck, D.
Master of Engineering in Fire Engineering
Data Structures and Reduction Techniques for Fire Tests
http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1578