Geert De Schutter RILEM Honorary Member

Prof Bart Merci is awarded the Arthur B. Guise Medal

10 week research stay at Cardiff University by dr. Tim Van Mullem

SMARTINCS'23 Conference in Ghent

Dr. Martin Thielens wins IWMA Young Talent Award for his PhD Thesis

Prof. Matthys awarded as fib Fellow

First journal paper by our colleague Juan Manuel Etcheverry

Site visit at the new Casino in Middelkerke

Prof Merci delivers keynote lecture at the 10th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering

Eline Vereecken wins the 2023 fib Achievement Award

PhD student Zhan Wang strengthens the team

Dr. Weixi Zhang wins the ABTUS-BVOTS Scientific Prize for his PhD thesis.

Self-Healing concrete is arousing more and more interest!

Xiepeng Sun wins prestigious IAFSS award with his PhD

Qihao Sun is welcomed at the department

The Civil Engineering Technology study programmes obtained a positive Quality Assurance Resolution

FWO Senior research project for Wouter De Corte

Mingzhu Chen is welcomed at the department

ERC Starting Grant for Ruben Van Coile

Associate professor Ruben Van Coile has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his research proposal AFireTest.

The participation of the C&E group in the 76th RILEM Annual Week and International Conference

Ticho Ooms wins the Sackesyn Award for best master's dissertation in Civil Engineering

Laurens De Mol and Robbe De Groote have won the Besix Award and the Sackesyn Award for the best master dissertation in Civil Engineering Technology

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya is now one of the IMFSE Full Partner Universities!

Prof Bart Merci and dr. Longxing Yu organize the China Platform Academic Forum 2022 event

Ruben Van Coile succeeds Bart Merci as convener of the Fire Safety education commission

Florian Put joins the SFE team

Ranjit Chaudhary receives Student Best Paper Award at ICOSSAR 2021-2022

Outstanding poster award for Dulce!

Lea Elhokayem (IMFSE alumnus) wins the best thesis award at the Nordic Fire & Safety Days conference in Lund

IMFSE alumnus Haydn Lewis wins the IWMA Young Talent Award

Alexander Snegirev strengthens the Fire Safety Science and Engineering group

Zomerwijs in the Magnel-Vandepitte laboratory

IMFSE: Graduation Day 2022 and Celebration of 10 Years of IMFSE

The first journal article by Mirko Pejatovic is now published in Glass Structures & Engineering.

Prof. Taerwe represents the department internationally, defining the 'Engineer of the Future' and teaching on structural fire design

Our department hosted the 8th Challenging Glass Conference!

Robin De Schryver obtained the degree of Doctor in Civil Engineering.

Welcome Paula Zappitelli to the lab!

After working hard, we relax hard at the UGent Happy Hour!

Prof Merci teaches Fire Safety Science and Engineering at ESIA 2022 in France

Ming-Cian Hong is awarded as a best student presenter at the 10th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards (ISFEH10)

Magnel-Vandepitte staff members proudly represented UGent at the ENGIE Ghent City Run 2022!

Yury Villagran-Zaccardi obtained the position of R&D Engineer Recycling and Sustainable Construction Materials at VITO!

Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering: dinner with MFSE graduates

Prof Ruben Van Coile and Prof Bart Merci host the meeting of the International Fire Safety Consortium in Ghent

What are we doing to improve sustainability and economic viability of concrete?

Resources, Conservation & Recycling 2021 Best Paper Award for colleagues of our Department!

Ruben discusses fundamentals of fire safety on the Fire Science Show

Do Bamboo - UGent students build full-scale bamboo spatial structure

Students from Ghent University and a number of talented young people from Sinaai, led by Professor Jan Belis, put their best talents together on the Ter Beke site. 💪

Eline is granted the degree of Doctor in Civil Engineering

International Food Fest held again after 3 years

Silver pinecone for the UGent team in the 2021 Christmas Tree Fire HRR Prediction Competition

Prof Merci and dr Maragkos involved in international project on fire modeling

Researchers at our department are listed within the top 2% researchers worldwide

Following the August 2021 data-update for "Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", several researchers of the Dep. of Structural Engineering and Building Materials are listed within the top 2% researchers worldwide

Eline is awarded first place in '3 Minute Thesis' competition!

Ghent University Joins Worldwide Research Initiative Led by Underwriters Laboratories and International Fire Safety Consortium

new PhD position opened

Zhang Yi is welcomed

Wang Xiaoyun (Sean) is welcomed back

Eline Vereecken obtains second place in '3 Minute Thesis' competition!

How can we avoid that concrete bridges come down with a big bang!

Public PhD defense of Xuejiao Zhu scheduled for Monday 13 December

Dan Wang is welcomed

Public PhD defense of Xiepeng Sun scheduled for Monday 13 December (online)

Public PhD defense of Luchuan Ding scheduled for Tuesday 14 December

Rahul Attupurathu Vijayan appointed as professor in India

Lien Saelens is welcomed as new research assistant