The 12th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF2022)

The 12th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF 2022) has been successfully held in PolyU campus from 29 November 2022 to 2 December 2022. The conference including a one-day workshop and three-day hybrid presentation sessions was organised by Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering (BEEE) with huge support from Faculty of Construction and Environment, Croucher Foundation and Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE).

The main focus of the SiF series of conferences is to provide an opportunity for researchers, practitioners and engineers to share and discuss their research related to structures in fire with their peers in an open, international forum. SiF2022 adopted a hybrid mode including online and in-person presentation at PolyU for broader access. In SiF2022, 226 abstracts were received and 115 papers after the review were presented by more than 110 researchers from more than 20 different countries. More details of SiF2022 including the conference proceedings, photos, and follow-up updates can be found at the conference website: www.sif2022.org.

After the conference, many delegates have highly praised the arrangement of SiF2022 to the chairs of local organising committee: Professor Asif USMANI (Head of BEEE) and Dr Liming JIANG (Assistant Professor of BEEE). On behalf of the organising committee, they would like to thank all the in-person and online delegates of SiF2022 and the enormous support from the SiF Steering Committee, SiF2022 Local Organising Committee, SiF2022 Scientific Committee and particularly the BEEE General Office, and all the SiF2022 volunteers!