Luke Bisby
Biographic Data
| ID | 6553961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Bisby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Bisby |
| SIGNATURE | BISBY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8293-4322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Freedom without responsibility
Professional status rests upon a social contract in which society allows specialists to monopolise certain roles on the understanding that they will do so ethically and with appropriate competence. Mechanisms to police such behaviour can be left to professional groups to organise or be legislated for by government, or some combination of the two. In the UK an opportunity to formalise the professional status of engineers arose with the publication…
Vive La Résistance? Standard fire testing, regulation, and the performance of safety
Because fire safety cannot be measured directly, building regulation uses test ratings to determine whether materials and products meet societal expectations. Fire resistance constitutes the most enduring means of gauging fire safety, providing ratings for how elements of structure perform in a standard furnace test. Although it has long been known that this test is unrepresentative of real building fires, fire resistance testing remains central …
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Vive La Résistance? Standard fire testing, regulation, and the performance of safety
Because fire safety cannot be measured directly, building regulation uses test ratings to determine whether materials and products meet societal expectations. Fire resistance constitutes the most enduring means of gauging fire safety, providing ratings for how elements of structure perform in a standard furnace test. Although it has long been known that this test is unrepresentative of real building fires, fire resistance testing remains central …
Freedom without responsibility
Professional status rests upon a social contract in which society allows specialists to monopolise certain roles on the understanding that they will do so ethically and with appropriate competence. Mechanisms to police such behaviour can be left to professional groups to organise or be legislated for by government, or some combination of the two. In the UK an opportunity to formalise the professional status of engineers arose with the publication…
Business (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Fire safety (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Risk analysis (engineering (2 works) · Architectural engineering (1 work) · Bespoke (1 work) · Civil engineering (1 work)