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NCST Advisory Committee Mtg. Agenda Oct. 19-20, 2004



National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee Meeting Administration Building
Employees Lounge

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October 19, 2004
Open Session Agenda

8:00 a.m.

Robert Hanson
Welcome and Opening Remarks

James Hill
NIST Opening Remarks

8:15 a.m.

Shyam Sunder
Status of World Trade Center Investigation and Discussion

9:45 a.m. Fahim Sadek
Project 2 – Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft Impact Damage Analysis
11:00 a.m.

Kevin McGrattan
Project 5 - Simulation of the Fires in WTC 1 and 2

Kuldeep Prasad
Project 5 - Simulating the Coupled Fire, Thermal, Structural Response of World Trade Center Towers

Richard Gann
Project 5 – Reconstruction of Fires in WTC 1 and WTC 2

12:15 p.m. LUNCH
1:15 p.m.

John Gross
Project 6 – Standard Fire Tests of WTC Tower Typical Floor Construction

John Gross and Nicholas Carino
Project 6 - Strength and Impact Response of SFRM

John Gross and Therese McAllister
Project 6 – Structural Fire Response and Collapse Analysis

2:45 p.m. J. Randall Lawson
Project 8 – Fire Service Technologies and Guidelines
4:00 p.m. Public Comment Period
5:00 p.m. Adjourn

National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee Meeting
Administration Building
Employees Lounge

October 20, 2004
Open Session Agenda

World Trade Center Investigation (continued)

8:00 a.m. Jason Averill
Project 7 – Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communications
8:45 a.m. William Grosshandler
Project 4 – Investigation of Active Fire Protection Systems
9:15 a.m. Frank Gayle
Project 3 – Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of Structural Steel
9:45 a.m. William Grosshandler
The Station Nightclub Investigation
10:15 a.m.

Robert Hanson
NCST Advisory Committee Discussion

  • Annual Report Planning
  • Other Advisory Committee Business
11:00 a.m. Adjourn Open Session

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Created June 21, 2010, Updated August 25, 2016
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