Why Cultural Heritage Safety Engineering Still Struggles to Be Recognised
Why universities, heritage institutions, and project governance still fail to treat it as a discipline in its own right In...
Fire safety engineering
Fire Safety in Cultural Heritage Buildings: Beyond Compliance, Toward Protection
Fire is arguably the greatest single threat facing cultural heritage. From the catastrophic 2018 fire at the National Museum of...
Why Historic Buildings require dedicated Fire Studies
In a 2024 post titled “Why the Notre Dame Fire Improved Historic Buildings Safety”, this website examines the significance of...
Why Care Fire Risk to Non Structural Historic Elements
Globally, historic buildings are often defined not only by their structural components but also by the non-structural elements that adorn...
Why the Notre Dame Fire Improved Historic Buildings Safety
Safety professionals face significant challenges in ensuring the safety of historic buildings, particularly in estimating the impact of fires on...
What Really Happened in 1823? Uncovering the Gaps in the Saint Paul Basilica Fire Narrative
On the two-hundredth anniversary of the devastating fire that consumed much of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls...
Fire Threat to Cultural Heritage Stone Buildings
Fire has always been a threat to cultural historic valuable buildings and surroundings. The level of loss is unacceptable, yet...
Fire Safety Engineering and Cultural Heritage Buildings
Updated January 2026 Introduction One of the most powerful tools that fire protection professionals have at their disposal to reflect...
Nantes Gothic Cathedral Damaged by Fire
On July 18th, 2020, a devastating fire engulfed the St Peter and St Paul Gothic Cathedral in Nantes, a medieval...
Notre Dame Fire: What we Know About
The fire at Notre-Dame de Paris on 15 April 2019 remains one of the most significant heritage losses of the...
Scottish Historic Buildings National Fire Database. Annual Reports
Cover of the 2008-2009 Scottish Historic Buildings National Fire Database Annual Report The Minute of Agreement between Historic Scotland and...
