The Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering (CESARE) undertakes research primarily in the area of fire safety and risk engineering. However Centre staff has also experience in other aspects of safety including working at heights.
Research and development activities are undertaken for a variety of industrial and government organisations. Customers include OneSteel, BlueScope Steel, Australian Buildings Codes Board, Fire Code Reform Centre and Singapore Civil Defence. The Centre has also been involved in a peer review capacity for major building projects such as Federation Square, Spencer St station re-development and Brisbane Cricket Ground.CESARE is located at the Werribee Campus of Victoria University.
Fire Safety Engineering can be described as a branch of engineering that uses engineering and scientific principles from a range of disciplines to enable the design of buildings and infrastructure for fire safety. Knowledge of the behaviour of structures, heat and mass transfer, hydraulic and mechanical systems, human behaviour and fire dynamics all form an important part of this discipline of engineering. This branch of engineering is still in the developing phase and the generation of new information and approaches is important.
The approach taken at the Centre to Fire Safety Engineering is a holistic approach set within a risk framework.
The Centre offers the following postgraduate courses
- Graduate Certificate in Performance-Based Building and Fire Codes
- Graduate Diploma in Building Fire Safety and Risk Engineering
- Master of Engineering in Building Fire Safety and Risk Engineering (Coursework)
- Master of Engineering
- Doctor of Philosophy
Academic and research staff within the Centre have research and practical experience in the areas of structural behaviour and design, heat transfer, mechanical systems, human behaviour in fire, risk assessment and management, and detection systems.
