FIRE!
CESARE TURNS UP THE HEAT
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Fire safety engineering is a comparatively new discipline. Research is as broad as examining how
burning structures behave, heat and mass transfer, the way humans behave in the face of fire, and
the performance of hydraulic and mechanical systems under extreme heat. Its aim is to develop
principles for designing safe buildings and infrastructure.
Victoria University's Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering (CESARE), which
opened in July 1991 and is part of the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science, has earned an
international reputation for its research into fire safety engineering. Based in Buildings 4 and 5
at Werribee Campus, the centre has 14 full-time and part-time staff. There is also a large-scale test
facility at rural Fiskville, about 70 kilometres west of Melbourne.
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