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Fire Risk Reduction in Communities Program
Last Updated Date: 01/09/2013 The objective of the Fire Risk Reduction in Communities Program is to develop and deploy advances in measurement science to improve the resilience … more
Fire Risk Reduction in Buildings Program
Last Updated Date: 01/02/2013 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
National Fire Research Laboratory Fire Resistance of Structures Project
Last Updated Date: 01/02/2013 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
National Fire Research Laboratory Metrology and Operations Project
Last Updated Date: 01/02/2013 The ability to conduct safe, repeatable and accurate intermediate and large scale fire experiments is essential to understanding fire behavior and … more
Fire Modeling for Performance-Based Design Project
Last Updated Date: 01/02/2013 Two NIST models, CFAST (Consolidated Fire And Smoke Transport) and FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator), are the most widely used models worldwide for … more
Safety of Building Occupants Projects
Last Updated Date: 01/02/2013 NIST will develop best practices, guidance, and pre-standards for the design and performance prediction of building and community emergency … more
Advanced Fire Detection Project
Last Updated Date: 01/02/2013 By 2014, this project will develop the technology to significantly reduce residential fire deaths through demonstration of economical advanced … more
Advanced Gas-Phase Fire Retardants Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 There is high motivation in industry to replace the widely used brominated fire retardants (and their antimony synergist). In order to … more
Reduced Flammability of Upholstered Furniture Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 This project will produce the measurement science needed to enable the reduction of the contribution of residential upholstered furniture to the … more
Reduced Ignition and Flame Spread with Nano-Engineered Foam Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 This research will enable commercialization of a reduced flammability, inexpensive, and EHS [1] compliant polyurethane foam and a high smoldering … more
National Fire Research Laboratory Infrastructure and Commissioning Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 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
Smart Firefighting Project
Last Updated Date: 12/31/2012 New opportunities to fuse emerging sensor and computing technologies with building control systems and firefighting equipment and apparatus are … more
Reduced Ignition of Building Components in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire problem is a structure ignition problem. To reduce the risk of structural ignition, the technical … more
WUI Fire Data Collection and Exposure Modeling Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is defined as a location where structures meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland. Since 2000 … more
WUI Building and Fire Codes and Standards Project
Last Updated Date: 12/27/2012 Within the Fire Risk Reduction in Communities Program at NIST, projects seek (through laboratory experiments, field measurements, and computer … more |
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