Fire Protection Technologies Portal

The objective of the Fire Risk Reduction in Communities Program is to develop and deploy advances in measurement science to improve the resilience … more

The objective of the Fire Risk Reduction in Buildings Program is to develop and deploy advances in measurement science to increase the safety of … more

At present, there is no research facility in the world that allows scientists and engineers to conduct research on the response of real-scale … more

The ability to conduct safe, repeatable and accurate intermediate and large scale fire experiments is essential to understanding fire behavior and … more

Two NIST models, CFAST (Consolidated Fire And Smoke Transport) and FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator), are the most widely used models worldwide for … more

NIST will develop best practices, guidance, and pre-standards for the design and performance prediction of building and community emergency … more

The National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) is adding a unique facility that will serve as a center of excellence for fireperformance of … more

The fire emulator/detector evaluator (FE/DE) is a computer-controlled flow tunnel used to re-create the environments surrounding detectors in the … more

As the federal government's principal fire research laboratory, EL maintains some of the country's best and most extensive fire testing … more

This apparatus, developed at EL, determines gasification rate (mass loss rate) of a horizontally oriented specimen exposed in a nitrogen … more

This apparatus, developed at EL, determines material properties related to piloted ignition of a vertically oriented sample under constant and … more

  Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically … more

The Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport, CFAST, is a computer program that fire investigators, safety officials, engineers, architects … more

Sprinkler Use Decisioning is a Web-tool designed to facilitate economic analysis of residential fire sprinklers at the homeowner-and … more

Turnout Gear Selector (ToGS) helps the manufacturers, purchasers and users of fire turnout gear evaluate and select the turnout coat and pants … more