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This report describes results obtained from a fire protection engineering analysis of an historic government office building located in Washington, DC. The
The number concentration, ionization chamber output, and mass concentration were recorded continuously for five different test smokes generated in the fire
The collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, resulting from a combination of aircraft impact damage and subsequent fires, was studied as
It is possible to generate electrical energy from the motion of water due to ocean tides and waves. Oceans are a much more ubiquitous source of flowing water
Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke
CFAST is a zone model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving distribution
Mini-mattresses of a size used for commercial display, were subjected to a pair of NIST-developed gas burners and the resulting heat release behavior was
Richard Gann, Star R. Burgess, Kathleen C. Whisner, Paul A. Reneke
As a result of the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the 1990 U.S. Clean Air Act, there began a movement toward phaseout of
The purpose of detecting fires early is to provide an alarm consistent with an environment which is deemed to be a threat to people or a building. High
William D. Davis, Walter W. Jones, David Holmberg, K A. Reed
This paper identifies building and building related information that would be useful to first responders (fire, police, EMS) and discusses examples of how the
This manuscript contains the technical documentation for the MatML Editor, an enabling technology intended to support widespread adoption of the language. The
This manuscript contains the end-user documentation for the MatML Editor, an enabling technology intended to support widespread adoption of the language. The
A series of measurements and performance evaluations has been conducted in the Temperature Control Module (TCM) for three control system vendors in order to
This report identifies and examines the important issues associated with a measurement and modeling program intended to evaluate how contaminants accidentally
Mark E. Palmer, M Burns, T L. Teague, Mary Turton, Rurik Turton
The AEX XML Schema Reference Guide summarizes the design principles and the structures of the AEX (Automating Equipment Information eXchange) XML schemas
Stephen J. Treado, S Cook, Banty Jain, Michael Galler
This report describes a typical implementation of a building access control system integrated with other portions of a building automation system, using some of
There are many types of sensor devices available in today s market with many still in development. These devices send signals representing the detection of
This is the April 2005 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and
The Fire Dynamics Simulation (FDS) research program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced software that simulates fire
This is the April 2003 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and
The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) version 3.0 software implements a rational, systematic technique for selecting environmentally
This is the April 2004 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and
Innovations in residential construction have faced many barriers to adoption. One critical barrier is the absence of metrics that allow homeowners, home
This is the April 2006 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and
X Feng, Edward Garboczi, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Kenneth A. Snyder, Paul E. Stutzman, T Mason
This report summarizes a project that dealt with the characterization of a fly ash and fly-ash blended cement material, so that these could be incorporated into