About

Ricky Carvel is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Assistant Director of the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering. His research specialities include Tunnel Fire Safety and Material Flammability. He is editor of 'The Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety' and other books. He also offers consultancy services and has advised a number of different engineering companies on fire and life safety issues, both with regards to tunnel safety and in general fire safety engineering.

Contact Details

Dr Ricky Carvel
BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
John Muir Building, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL

Phone/Fax: +44 (0) 131 651 3576
e-mail: Ricky.Carvel (AT) ed.ac.uk
Skype: rickycarvel
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Video clip

The first few seconds of my 15 minutes of fame. This is my (brief) appearance on the Channel 5 documentary "A to Z of disasters" from May 2001. Programme produced by Wark Clements for Channel 5. The letter 'T' had already been devoted to tornadoes, so tunnel fires were fitted in under 'U' for 'Underground'... They interviewed me for well over an hour and cut me down to about 30 seconds of air time. (MPEG file, 15Mb)

Employment History

• Research Fellow, BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
  • September to December 2002; January 2005 to present
• Research Associate, Dept. Civil & Offshore Engineering, Heriot-Watt University.
  • April 1998 to March 2001; August 2001 to July 2002; January 2003 to December 2004
• Consultant, International Fire Investigators & Consultants.
  • April to July 2001
• Research Assistant, Centre for Explosion Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • November 1994 to March 1998

Qualifications

• BSc (hons) - Chemistry and Physics - University of St. Andrews (1992)
• MPhil - Chemistry (catalysis) - University of St. Andrews (1994)
• PhD - Fire Safety Engineering - Heriot-Watt University (2004)