pilar.giraldo@ctfc.cat
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Her expertise focuses on fire behavior and façade fire spread, fire safety, and fire propagation modeling, with extensive experience in research projects on timber construction elements and sustainable building. She served as a Steering Committee member and co-leader of a working group in COST Action FP1404 Fire Safe Use of Bio-Based Building Products, and actively collaborates with the global research network Fire Safe Use of Wood (FSUW). She is co-founder and activity coordinator of LIGNOMAD, a Spanish research network promoting the use of wood and lignocellulosic materials in construction. In addition, she contributes to initiatives aimed at fostering the use of local wood in the Catalan construction industry.
Haurie, Laia., Campesino, Sergio., Avellaneda, Alina., Giraldo, M. Pilar., Lacasta, Ana. (2024). Efecto de la presencia de horgura en el comportamiento al fuego de uniones metálicas ocultas para estructuras de madera. Congreso Iberoamericano CIMAD, 2070 – 273.
Haurie, Laia., De la Barrera, Adriana., Segués, Edgar., Giraldo, M. Pilar., Rubio, Victor. Fire Performance of Epoxy Mortar Repair System. (2024). Wood and Fire Safety 2024.
Giraldo, M. P., Avellaneda, A., Haurie, L., Vilches, M., & Lacasta, A. M. (2023). Experimental study of the effects of accelerated aging cycles on the fire reaction performance of five wood species. In Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2023) (Vol. 1, pp. 564–570).
Guía de Fuego ASEFAVE (2023). Alex Siuró, Zigor Marroquín, Ferran Muñoz, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Nuria Costa, Miguel Ángel Núñez, Elena Malaina, María Pilar Giraldo.
Haurie, L., Giraldo, M. P., Lacasta, A. M., Montón, J., & Sonnier, R. (2019). Influence of different parameters in the fire behaviour of seven hardwood species. Fire safety journal, 107, 193-201.
Palumbo, Mariana., Lacasta, A. María., Giraldo, M. Pilar., Haurie, Laia., Correal, Eduard. Bio-based insulation materials and their hygrothermal performance in a building envelope system (ETICS). (2018). Energy and Building, vol. 174, 147 – 155.
Leiva, Camila., Diaz Grande, Jaume., Giraldo, M. Pilar., Cascante, D., Soto, P.G. (2018) Safety evaluation in face of fire of three solutions in timber fronts in Buildings. : World Conference on Timber Engineering.
Palumbo, M., Lacasta, A. M., Navarro, A., Giraldo, M. P., & Lesar, B. (2017). Improvement of fire reaction and mould growth resistance of a new bio-based thermal insulation material. Construction and Building Materials, 139, 531-539.
Pastor, E., Corberó, B., Rios, O., Giraldo, M. P., Haurie, L., Lacasta, A., Cuerva, E., & Planas, E. (2016). Compartment and façade large scale tests: Behavior comparison of different insulating materials in case of fire. Applications of Structural Fire Engineering.
Giraldo, M. P., Haurie, L., Sotomayor, J., Lacasta, A. M., & Montón, J. (2016). Characterization of the fire behaviour of tropical wood species for use in the construction industry. In Proceedings of the WCTE 2016: World Conference on Timber Engineering (pp. 5387-5395). Austria, August 22-25.
Palumbo, M., Giraldo, M. P., Navarro, A., & Lacasta, A. (2015). Performance of biobased insulation board from crop by-products and natural gums. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Bio-based Materials. June 10.
Lacasta Palacio, A. M., Haurie Ibarra, L., Palumbo Fernández, M., & Giraldo, M. P. (2015). Factors affecting smouldering combustion of bio-based thermal insulation materials. In Proceedings of the European Workshop on Fire Safety of Green Buildings (pp. 40-42). Berlin, Germany, 6-7 October.