FDS Courses

[GB]

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

[Tom Sutton]

Have you tried the official website. 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/
Target Area: Training in the basics of FDS/Smokeview for newcomers. Interested in forming a self-help group for more advanced users.

[Northern Uproar]

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/

Dave McGill was the course director.

[CivvyFSO]

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.