Tomasz Tyszkiewicz won the competition organized by the Board of the Association of Fire Engineers and Technicians. Due to the pandemic, the competition that took place in 2021 concerned the academic years 2017/18 and 2018/19.

A graduate of Civil Engineering, Tomasz Tyszkiewicz, MSc., presented and compared the design methods contained in the current European Standards, with the method of considering membrane interactions in the design of composite steel and concrete ceilings.

The author pointed to significant reserves of fire load capacity in the composite ceilings.

It is worth mentioning that the method used by Tomasz Tyszkiewicz will be part of the upcoming new generation of Eurocode 1994-1-2.

The thesis supervisor was prof. Adam Glema together with Wojciech Szymkuć, Msc.

Congratulations!