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José Torero
Working Group: Fire Performance of Façades
University of Maryland, Head, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering | College Park, United Kingdom
About
Professor José L. Torero is Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. He works in the field of Fire Safety Engineering where he specializes in the behaviour of fire in complex environments such as forests, tall buildings, novel architectures, tunnels, aircraft and spacecraft. He holds a BSc for the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (1989), and an MSc (1991) and PhD (1992) from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Doctor Honoris Causa by Ghent University (Belgium) in 2016.
José is a Chartered Engineer (UK), a Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK), the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institution of Civil…
CTBUH Roles
Working Group: Fire Performance of Façades (2017 – Present)
Fire & Life Safety Committee, Member (2017 – Present)
Working Group: Fire & Safety, Co-Chair (2009 – 2013)
International Research Seed Funding, Peer Review Panel (2012, 2013, 2014)
CTBUH Initiatives
The Brisbane 2016 Summer Seminar: Design of Tall Buildings
24 November 2016
Should Fire Safety Limit Timber Building?
24 July 2014
Should Fire Safety Limit Timber Building Height?
24 July 2014
Research
01 June 2013
Overview of the Benefits of Structural Fire Engineering
Allan Jowsey & Peter Scott, AkzoNobel; Jose Torero, University of Queensland
The field of structural fire engineering has evolved within the construction industry, driven largely by the acceptance of performance-based or goal-based design. This evolution has...
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Research
01 March 2013
Some Considerations for the Fire Safe Design of Tall Buildings
Adam Cowlard, Adam Bittern, Cecilia Abecassis-Empis, & José L. Torero, University of Edinburgh
In any subject area related to the provision of safety, failure is typically the most effective mechanism for evoking rapid reform and an introspective assessment...
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Research
01 July 2011
Challenging Attitudes on Codes and Safety
José L. Torero, BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering
The history of technological evolution is filled with failures and the lessons learned from them. Many will even claim that “design by disaster” is one...
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CTBUH Initiatives
24 November 2016
The Brisbane 2016 Summer Seminar: Design of Tall Buildings
CTBUH Brisbane held their 2016 Summer Seminar in conjunction with the ASCE. The topic of discussion was "Design of Tall Buildings."
24 July 2014
Should Fire Safety Limit Timber Building?
CTBUH Brisbane is holding their next breakfast seminar series exploring the impact emerging technology is having on our buildings and cities on fire safety in timber buildings.
24 July 2014
Should Fire Safety Limit Timber Building Height?
The Brisbane Committee held the 3rd of its Emerging Technologies Breakfast Seminars with José L. Torero presenting on “Should Fire Safety Limit Timber Building Height?”
18 September 2012
Fire & Safety Workshop, Shanghai
The Fire & Safety Working Group met in Shanghai to discuss progress on several on-going initiatives and recent studies.
14 September 2011
New Fire Safety Research Project
The Council is pleased to announce that a CTBUH-affiliated research program aiming to address the threat of fires to tall buildings has recently received funding from the UK EPSRC.
1 September 2011
Fire Safety of Tall Buildings Research Project
The Council is pleased to announce that a CTBUH-affiliated research program aiming to address the threat of fires to tall buildings.
Research
01 June 2013
Overview of the Benefits of Structural Fire Engineering
Allan Jowsey & Peter Scott, AkzoNobel; Jose Torero, University of Queensland
The field of structural fire engineering has evolved within the construction industry, driven largely by the acceptance of performance-based or goal-based design. This evolution has...
01 March 2013
Some Considerations for the Fire Safe Design of Tall Buildings
Adam Cowlard, Adam Bittern, Cecilia Abecassis-Empis, & José L. Torero, University of Edinburgh
In any subject area related to the provision of safety, failure is typically the most effective mechanism for evoking rapid reform and an introspective assessment...
01 July 2011
Challenging Attitudes on Codes and Safety
José L. Torero, BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering
The history of technological evolution is filled with failures and the lessons learned from them. Many will even claim that “design by disaster” is one...
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