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Measurable requirements: quantifying safety from fire, Paula Beever, Invited presentation at Fire Australia Conference on the True Cost of Fire, Melbourne, 14th - 16th November 2012

Fire design tools in a risk - informed regulatory framework, Greg Baker, Colleen Wade and Paula Beever, 6th International Conference on Fire Safety Engineering: Performance - based design: advances and new challenges, Madrid, 23rd - 25th February 2011

New approach for fire safety compliance in New Zealand, Paula Beever, Invited presentation at 6th International Conference on Fire Safety Engineering: Performance - based design: advances and new challenges, Madrid, 23rd - 25th February 2011

Appropriate, Acceptable or Adequate: how much is enough? Paula Beever, Keynote presentation to SUPDET Conference, Orlando, Florida, 26th - 27th  February 2009

Developing Fire Performance Criteria for New Zealand's Performance Based Building Code, C. Wade, P. Beever, C. Fleischmann, J. Lester, D. Lloydd, A. Moule, N. Saunders, and P. Thorby, Presented at the Fire Safety Engineering International Seminar, Paris, France, 26th - 27th April 2007

Results of Research into Domestic House Fires and its Implications for Regulators, Paula Beever, and Stephen Kip, Presented to 8th International Fire Science and Engineering Conference, Edinburgh, 29th June - 1st July 1999

Research into Cost - Effective Fire Safety Measures for Residential Buildings, Paula Beever and Mark Britten, Building Control Commission of Victoria, February 1999

Performance - Based Codes: Education for Culture Change, P.F. Beever, Presented to Pacific Rim Conference of Building Officials, Maui, 3 - 7 May 1998

Performance Based Fire Engineering Design In Australia, P.F.Beever, 1st International Conference on Performance - Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Ottawa, September 1996

Regulations, Codes and Standards: the Fire Engineering Approach, P.F.Beever, Presented to Asiaflam, Hong Kong, 15 - 16 March 1995 

Magic Numbers and Golden Rules, P.F.Beever and M. Law, Presented to the 4th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Ottawa, 12 - 17 June 1994


Tamahere Fire, Paula Beever, Presented to Forest and Rural Fires Association of New Zealand Annual Conference, Whangarei, 28th - 30th July 2010

Inquiry into the Explosion at Icepak Coolstores, Tamahere, Paula Beever, Presented to Australasian Fire Authorities Council 16th Annual Conference Proceedings, Gold Coast, 22nd - 24th September 2009

Tamahere Fire Report, Paula Beever, Presented to Fire-NZ conference 'Expanding the Frontiers', Auckland, 9th - 10th September 2009

Explosion & Fire at Icepak Coolstores, Tamahere, Paula Beever, Keynote presentation to Building Officials Institute of New Zealand National Conference, Christchurch, 5th - 9th April 2009

Explosion & Fire at Icepak Coolstores, Tamahere, New Zealand, Paula Beever, Reiss Distinguished Lecture, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, 3rd March 2009

Inquiry into the Explosion and Fire at Icepak Coolstores, Tamahere, on 5 April 2008, Paula Beever, Paul McGill, Paul Henderson and Stephen Warner, New Zealand Fire Service Report, September 2008


Not just a pretty picture… Paula Beever, Keynote presentation to Spatial Sciences Institute International Biennial Conference, Hobart, 14th - 18th May 2007

Victim behaviours, intentionality, and differential risks in residential fire deaths, I. Miller and P. Beever [In Brebbia, C.A., Bucciarelli, T., Garzia, F., & Guarasscio, M (Eds) Proceedings of First International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering, Rome. WIT Press, Southampton], 2005

Helicopters and Dice: information perspectives, Paula Beever, Presented to Australasian Fire Authorities Council 8th Annual Conference Proceedings, Auckland 2005

Role of Risk Analysis in Fire Engineering: Fire Fighting Agencies’ Perspective, Paula Beever and Jonathan Shelley, Asia - Pacific Economic Co - operation Conference, Wellington, 24th - 26th May 2005

Effectiveness of the Service: Performance Measures & Monitoring, Paula Beever, Presented to the Irish Chief Fire Officers Association Conference, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, 3rd - 6th May 2005

Development, Technology and Change, Paula Beever, Presented to the Irish Chief Fire Officers Association Conference, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, 3rd - 6th May 2005

Advancing Knowledge in Fire Risk Management, Paula Beever, Presented to Institution of Fire Engineers Conference, Dublin, 14th - 16th July 2004

New Zealand Fire Service Fire Fighting Water Supplies Code of Practice, SNZ PAS 4509: 2003

Advancing Knowledge in Fire Risk Management, Paula Beever, Australasian Fire Authorities Council 8th Annual Conference Proceedings, Darwin, 10th - 12th August 2001

Resource Allocation Modelling, Paula Beever and Basil Cuthbert, Australasian Fire Authorities Council 7th Annual Conference Proceedings, Glenelg, Adelaide, 8th - 10th September 2000

Fire Engineering, Fire Safety and Risk Management in New Zealand, Ken Harper and Paula Beever, Chief Fire Officers' Association Annual Conference, Limerick (Ireland), 3rd - 4th May 2000 (Recipient of the Sjölin Award in recognition of work to foster utilization of modern fire safety engineering principles by the New Zealand Fire Service - FORUM for International Cooperation on Fire Research, 2002)

A Rational Approach to Fire - Fighting Water Supplies, P.F. Beever and B. Davey, Australasian Fire Authorities Council 6th Annual Conference Proceedings, Melbourne, 15th - 17th October 1999


International Developments Using Lifts for Evacuation P. F. Beever, Presented to Fire Australia Conference, Brisbane, 26th -28th June 2002

A Novel Approach to Tall Building Design Using The Australian Performance Code, Paula Beever, Invited paper presented to Second International Conference on Performance - Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Maui, 5 - 9 May 1998

Fire Safety in Shopping Centres, I.D.Bennetts, K.W.Poh, S.L.Poon, I.R.Thomas, A.C.Lee, P.F.Beever, G.C.Ramsay, G.R.Timms, Fire Code Reform Centre Project 6, BHP Research Report BHPR/SM/R/G/073, August 1997

Fire Code Reform Centre: Fire Engineering Guidelines Workshop, P.F.Beever, Presented to the Building Australia’s Future Workshops, Surfers Paradise, 14 - 16 October 1996

Fire Code Reform Centre: The Research Program, P.F.Beever, Presented to the Building Australia’s Future Conference, Surfers Paradise, 14 - 16 October 1996

Lille TGV Station, J Wernick, P.F.Beever and S LeBourva, The Structural Engineer, 74 (2), 1996 (Paper awarded the Diploma of the Oscar Faber Award 1996)

Fire Safety Engineering Applications, P.F.Beever, Construction Challenges - Steel Solutions: UK National Steel Construction Conference, London, May 1995

Fire Safety by Design: A Framework for the Future, P. F. Beever, Proceedings of a Technical Conference organised jointly by the Fire Research Station and the Institute of Fire Safety; Fire Research Station, Borehamwood,10th November 1993, Elsevier Science Publ., 1994.

Fire Safety Design, Architects Journal, 21 April 1993.

Fire Safety Engineering in Airport Terminals, P.F.Beever, Presented to Seminar on Airport Facilities Design, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, September 1992.

How Fire Safety Engineering Can Improve Fire Safety: Use of Statistics, P.F.Beever, Fire 91, Eastbourne, UK, November 1991.

An Engineering Approach to Fire Safety, P.F.Beever, Presented to Safe T91: Safety in Live Entertainment, London, June 1991.

Cabins and Islands, P.F.Beever, Paper presented to the 3rd International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Edinburgh, July, 1991 (Commended in British Consultant of the Year Awards, for fire safety design work on Kansai Airport, Japan - British Consultants Bureau, 1993)

Smoke Flow and People Movement Modelling for an Airport Terminal Building, P.F.Beever, International Conference on Evacuation from Complex Spaces, Newcastle, July 1991


Light Scattering Characteristics and Size Distribution of Smoke and Nuisance Aerosols, D.W. Weinert, P. F. Beever, T. G. Cleary and G. W. Mulholland, Presented to the 7th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Worcester, Ma, 16th - 21st June 2002 (Paper awarded International Association of Fire Safety Science Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence for the best paper in the Seventh Symposium, 2005)

Effects of Buoyancy Driven Turbulent Mixing in Building Fires, Yaping He and Paula Beever, 8th International Fire Science and Engineering Conference, Edinburgh, 29th June - 1st July 1999

Buoyancy Driven Flow in Building Enclosures Subjected to Fires, Yaping He and Paula Beever, 13th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, 13th - 18th December 1998

Self - Heating and Spontaneous Combustion P.F.Beever, Society of Fire Protection Engineers Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, P.J.DiNenno (editor), NFPA, Quincy, Mass, 1st edition 1988, 2nd edition 1995

Estimating the Response of Thermal Detectors P.F.Beever, International Fire Protection Engineering Institute - V, Conference, Ottowa, Canada May 1989, paper published in the Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, 2, 1, 1990

Scaling Rules for Prediction of Thermal Runaway P.F.Beever and J.F.Griffiths, International Symposium on Runaway Reactions, Cambridge, Mass, 1989

Reply to 'Comments on Thermal Response of Sprinklers' C.R.Theobald, P.F.Beever and S.J.Melinek, Fire Safety Journal 14, 191 - 192 1989

The Thermal Sensitivity of Sprinklers C.R.Theobald and P.F.Beever, BRE Note, N73/88 1988

Comments on 'Thermal Ignition in Packed Particulate Solids by Griffiths et al.' P.F.Beever, Combustion and Flame 67, 265 - 266 1987

Initiation and Propagation of Smouldering Reactions P.F.Beever, Ph.D. Thesis University of Leeds, UK 1986


Fire and Explosion Hazards in Spray Drying Operations, P.F.Beever and D.Crowhurst, Journal Dairy Technology, 42, 3, 1989

Hazards in Drying Thermally Unstable Powders P.F.Beever, I. Chem. E. HAZARDS X Symposium, Manchester, UK 1989

Fire and Explosion Hazards in the Spray Drying of Milk P.F.Beever, J. Food Technology 20, 637 - 645, 1985

Self - Ignition of Powders in Bulk and in Layers P.F.Beever, International Symposium on Particulate and Multi - Phase Processes, Miami, Florida 1985

Spontaneous Ignition of Milk Powders in a Spray - Drying Plant P.F.Beever. Journal of the Society of Dairy Technology 37, 68 - 71, 1984

Self - heating of Powders in Theory and Practice P.F.Beever, International Conference on the Safe handling of Flammable Dusts, Nurenberg, Germany, 1983

Understanding the Problems of Spontaneous Combustion P.F.Beever, Fire Engineers Journal 42, 38 - 39, 1982

Characteristics of Spontaneous Fires P.F.Beever, J. Occupational Accidents 3, 299 - 305, 1982

Spontaneous Combustion - Isothermal Test Methods P. F. Beever, BRE Information Paper, IP23/82 1982

Spontaneous Combustion P.F.Beever, BRE Information Paper, IP6/82 1982

Isothermal Methods - Practical Case Histories P.F.Beever, I. Chem. E. Symposium - Runaway Reactions, Chester, UK 1981

Isothermal Methods for Assessing Combustible Powders P.F.Beever and P.F.Thorne, I. Chem. E. Symposium - Runaway Reactions, Chester, UK 1981


Incidence and Control of Subterranean Fires, P.F.Beever, BRE Occasional Paper, April 1990

Subterranean Fires in the UK - The Problem P.F.Beever, BRE Information Paper, IP3/89, 1989

Tip Fires - The Risk Below P.F.Beever, Municipal Journal 96, 2652 - 2653, 1988

Fire and Explosion Hazards Associated with the Redevelopment of Contaminated Land D.Crowhurst and P.F.Beever, BRE Information Paper, IP2/87 1987

Assessment of Fire Hazard in Contaminated Land P.F.Beever, First International TNO Conference on Contaminated Soil, Utrecht, The Netherlands 1985