The Structures in Fire (SiF) Conference is aimed at engineers, designers, manufacturers, and material producers as well asacademics, students, and those involved in research and teaching activities in the field of structures in fire.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Two page abstracts are due on 1 December 2025 with full papers due on 28 February 2026.

List of Topics

• Applications of structural fire engineering
• Concrete structures in fire
• Masonry structures in fire
• Steel structures in fire
• Composites structures or fibre reinforcedpolymers (FRPs) in fire
• Timber structures in fire
• Numerical modelling of structures in fire
• Experimental research of structures in fire
• Impacts of wildfires on structures (papers notaddressing the specific impact on structureswould be out of scope for this conference)
• Performance based design of structures in fire
• Other topics related to structures in fire

Committees

Steering Committee

• Venkatesh Kodur (Chair),Michigan State University, USA
• Paulo Vila Real, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Thomas Gernay, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Kang Hai Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Organizing committee

• Mark F. Green, Queen’s University (Co-Chair)
• John Gales, York University (Co-Chair)
• Masoud Adelzadeh, National Research Councilof Canada
• Noureddine Bénichou, National ResearchCouncil of Canada
• Bronwyn Chorlton, University of Calgary
• Negar Elhami-Khorasani, University at Buffalo
• Islam Gomaa, National Research Council ofCanada
• Hamzeh Hajiloo, Carleton University
• Ramla Qureshi, McMaster University

Venue

The conference will be held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada at Queen's University. Kingston is situated on the territory of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Anishinaabek (Ojibwe) Peoples midway between Toronto and Montreal.

Contact

The conference website is http://sif2026.org and all questions about submissions should be emailed to sif2026@queensu.ca