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Himoto Lab
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The lab uses computation and risk assessment to make buildings and cities resilient to disasters such as fire.
AboutAbout the lab
Disaster-resilient buildings and cities.
Himoto Lab conducts research to realize buildings and cities that are resilient to disasters.
Centered on knowledge from fire safety engineering, the lab explores its methodology by combining new analysis techniques that have recently been developed.
Its topics include fire protection and fire-resistance design of timber buildings, prediction of fire spread in large-scale outdoor fires, and disaster prevention planning that takes social change into account.
The lab is new, launched in April 2025.
Key terms
- Resilient
- Having the ability to recover after a disaster without collapsing greatly; a term that combines strength and flexibility
- Fire spread
- The spreading of fire from one building to another, or from wildland to an urban area
- Fire protection and fire-resistance design
- Design that keeps a fire from spreading through a building and secures time for people to escape even if a fire breaks out
NewsLab news
Published a paper that statistically models the shape and scattering range of firebrands
Published a paper on a risk-based design method to prevent fire spread between buildings
Published a paper that estimates a fire occurrence probability model by hierarchical Bayesian estimation
Published a paper that estimates fire growth rates by building use
Published a paper that predicts the calorific value of combustibles through image analysis
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research to realize buildings and cities that are resilient to disasters. Centered on knowledge from fire safety engineering, it combines computational science methods and new analysis techniques to consider disaster prevention for buildings and cities.
*Illustrative imageDisaster Prevention Planning Responding to Social Change
The lab focuses on the mismatch between the speed at which society changes, through a declining birthrate, an aging population, and population decline, and the speed at which urban space is renewed. It evaluates and predicts the increasing disaster risk using computational science methods, and examines disaster prevention measures suited to the future structure of society.
*Illustrative imageFire Protection and Fire-Resistance Design of Timber Buildings
The lab develops risk-based fire protection and fire-resistance design methods that take into account the influence of uncertain factors affecting fire safety performance. It aims to rationalize the fire protection and fire-resistance design of timber buildings, which have been designed on the basis of prescriptive provisions.
*Illustrative imageFire Spread Prediction for Large-Scale Outdoor Fires
Models for urban fires and wildland fires have been developed separately. The lab integrates them and develops a method to physically predict fire spread at the boundary between the two. It aims to reduce damage like that of the March 2025 wildland fire in Ofunato City.
MembersFaculty
Himoto Lab's members consist of faculty, undergraduate students, and assistant staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorKeisuke HimotoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Fire and Flames 0461” Amada44 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Disaster Prevention Planning Responding to Social Change: “Low residential next to Wadabori Park in Omiya, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, 2024 May” Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Fire Protection and Fire-Resistance Design of Timber Buildings: “SI-MODULAR Tragwerk Deutschland 2019” Halu Stell / CC0 (cropped)
- Fire Spread Prediction for Large-Scale Outdoor Fires: “Brianhead Fire, Utah (MODIS )” Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC / Public domain (cropped)
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