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FIRE RELATED TRAINING, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXAMS => Continuing Professional Development => Topic started by: GB on February 03, 2011, 09:21:17 PM

Title: FDS Courses
Post by: GB on February 03, 2011, 09:21:17 PM

Does anyone know of any courses / workshops running on how to use FDS?

Title: Re: FDS Courses
Post by: Tom Sutton on February 03, 2011, 11:31:10 PM

Have you tried the official website. http://www.fire.nist.gov/fds/ (http://www.fire.nist.gov/fds/)

Maybe you could try the company below with an email, I have no knowledge of them other than they were the only UK company I could find.

Name: Simon Ham, Director, Fire Safety Engineering Consultants Limited
Address:  FiSEC Lincoln Office, 33 Spring Hill, Lincoln, LN1 1HF, United Kingdom
Email:  simonham@btconnect.com
URL:  http://fisec.co.uk/ (http://fisec.co.uk/)
Target Area: Training in the basics of FDS/Smokeview for newcomers. Interested in forming a self-help group for more advanced users.

Title: Re: FDS Courses
Post by: Northern Uproar on February 08, 2011, 11:54:11 AM

Some of my colleagues have done a correspondance course in FDS from the School of Fire Protection, Seneca Collage, Toronto, and they speak quite highly of it - one was a complete beginner.

http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/fire/fds/ (http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/fire/fds/)

Dave McGill was the course director.

Title: Re: FDS Courses
Post by: CivvyFSO on February 10, 2011, 12:11:32 PM

GB, the user manual is about the best thing you will get if you are willing to stick at it and take your time.

If your company has the money I would suggest learning as much as you can on the actual code to give you a good background in how it works, then getting something like Pyrosim.