A5052737449- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Fire effects on concrete materials
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Fire Detection and Safety Systems
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
- Combustion and Detonation Processes
- Seismic Performance and Analysis
- Construction Project Management and Performance
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Risk Perception and Management
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
- Underground infrastructure and sustainability
- Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
- Education, Safety, and Science Studies
- Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
- BIM and Construction Integration
SignaBlok (United States)
2020-2022
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
1992-2021
Clark University
1999-2008
ARUP Laboratories (United States)
2005
Arup Group (United States)
2004
National Fire Protection Association
1995-2000
Although performance-based building regulations are in use or under development numerous countries worldwide, there remain significant challenges adequately identifying and defining performance, understanding addressing diverse societal expectations, establishing robust regulatory systems. These become intensified as the construction market becomes increasingly global, with resulting expectation that instruments valid across borders do not create barriers to trade, while at same time address...
Fires are adverse events with tangible costs for property and human life. Quantification of the immediate direct fire provide a metric understanding social economic impact assessing progress in prevention protection. In addition to their physical costs, fires have range less obvious consequences on natural environment. These include air contamination from plume (whose deposition is likely subsequently land water contamination), runoff containing toxic products, other environmental discharges...
The International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) is comprised members from some 40 countries. This paper presents the Association's thinking, developed by Management Committee, concerning pressing research needs for coming 10 years presented as IAFSS Agenda 2030 a Safe World. are couched in terms two broad Societal Grand Challenges: (1) climate change, resiliency and sustainability (2) population growth, urbanization globalization. Challenges include significant fire safety...
Society is changing ever faster, and tunnels are complex systems where performance affected by many different stakeholders. This suggests that safety management needs to be proactive based on a perspective acknowledges socio-technical theories. Although thinking principles foundational in overarching goals European regulation, system generally not affecting tunnel fire design or engineering practice. In the countries investigated this study, (TFSM) builds experience-based risk...
ABSTRACT The use of emergency backup and storage facilities to supplement existing in response the potential effects various natural anthropogenic hazards (e.g., floods, fires, outages, acts malice) can be an effective way reducing vulnerability enhancing resilience supply chain other logistics functions. Although there additional costs associated with utilizing facilities, they a particularly attractive cost‐effective alternative those cases where long‐term disruptions can, or should,...
Building regulatory agencies worldwide are grappling with how to define and implement appropriate mandatory voluntary measures for new existing buildings that address societal political demands increased environmental resource sustainability resiliency the effects of climate change without lessening historical building focus on health, safety welfare occupants. It can be argued a transition from prescriptive performance-based regimes, coupled introduction policy objectives resiliency, in...
Performance‐based building codes are being developed and promulgated around the world. Concurrently, performance‐based analysis design approaches used in a number of disciplines, including structural, mechanical, fire protection engineering. The regulatory environment promises great opportunities for engineers designers to innovate apply analytical tools methods safe, efficient, cost‐effective, aesthetically pleasing buildings. However, regulators enforcement officials, often met with...
Building regulatory systems have been evolving in recent decades, first with a transition to functional or performance basis, and more recently the introduction of new societal objectives, including those related sustainability climate change resiliency. Various policy technical challenges identified this evolution, lack common basis for establishing expectations, quantified metrics, robust mechanisms incorporate objectives manner that effectively integrates diversity stakeholder input...
The fundamental construct for performance-based design fire safety in use today has not significantly changed since the early 1990s. While current seen some success, is as broadly accepted approaches other building-related engineering disciplines. To advance safety, it proposed to move towards a sociotechnical systems approach. This means changing starting point from focus on objectives unique property of buildings, infrastructure, or operations, and considering one several objectives. It...
Over the past 25 years, building regulations in many countries have become less prescriptive and more functional or performance oriented. Concurrently, there has been an increase application of performance-based design concepts use innovative methods materials. In some cases, also increased reliance on self-certification by professionals. Each these changes promises flexibility reduction regulatory burden. most are fulfilled. However, cases where aspect system does not work as intended,...