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Developing Emergency Communication Strategies for Buildings

March 12, 2012
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Steve M. Gwynne, Kathryn M. Butler, Bryan L. Hoskins, Carolyn Sandler
The purpose of this document is to provide the foundation for the development of a guidance document on emergency communication message content and dissemination strategies. The document answers three major questions regarding emergency communication

Airflow and Indoor Air Quality Models of DOE Reference Commercial Buildings

February 24, 2012
Author(s)
Lisa C. Ng, Amy Musser, Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich
Sixteen reference commercial buildings were defined by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and created as EnergyPlus input files. They were developed for use in assessing new technologies and supporting the development of energy codes. Infiltration rates

Experimental Study of the Three Dimensional Internal Structure of Underventilated Compartment Fires in an ISO 9705 Room.

February 8, 2012
Author(s)
Kelly M. Opert, Andrew J. Lock, Matthew F. Bundy, Erik L. Johnsson, Cheolhong Hwang, Anthony P. Hamins, Stephen P. Fuss, Ki-Yong Lee
This report documents a set of 9 full scale ISO 9705 room under-ventilated compartment fire experiments for the purpose of guiding the development of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) computer fire model - Fire Dynamics Simulator

OASIS Collaborative Energy Standards, Facilities, and ZigBee Smart Energy

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
David G. Holmberg, William Cox, Don Sturek
The enterprise integration-style interfaces and information models in the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) collaborative energy standards are designed to address information exchange across the smart grid. This

Recommendations for Elevator Messaging Strategies

January 6, 2012
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Bryan L. Hoskins
Building occupants, who have been instructed to use elevators for evacuation, and have subsequently congregated within the elevator lobby for eventual evacuation, are presented with an uncertain and potentially intimidating situation. For example, waiting

Simulation of the Dynamics of a Wind-Driven Fire in a Ranch-Style House - Texas

January 5, 2012
Author(s)
Adam M. Barowy, Daniel M. Madrzykowski
This report describes the results of calculations using the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) performed to provide insight on the thermal conditions that may have occurred during a wind-driven fire in a one-story ranch house on April 12, 2009 in Houston

FIRE PATTERN REPEATABILITY: A STUDY IN UNCERTAINTY

January 3, 2012
Author(s)
Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Charles Fleischmann
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a multi-year study, with the support of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the NIST Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES), to examine the repeatability of burn patterns

Wildland Fires within Municipal Jurisdictions

January 1, 2012
Author(s)
Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry
Each year, wildland fires threaten structures and occupants of the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Currently, wildfire ignition estimates largely exclude ignitions originating within municipal jurisdictions, whose jurisdiction encompasses the majority of

Firebrand Generation Data Obtained from a Full Scale Structure Burn

December 5, 2011
Author(s)
Sayaka S. Suzuki, Samuel Manzello
A full-scale, proof-of-concept experiment was conducted to investigate firebrand production from a burning structure. In this experiment, NIST researchers were invited to set up instrumentation during a structure burn down. As the structure burned

Annex 47 Report 1: Commissioning Overview

December 1, 2011
Author(s)
Chlo? Legris, Daniel Choiniere, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti
This report summarizes part of the work of IEA-ECBCS Annex 47 Cost-Effective Commissioning of Existing and Low Energy Buildings. It is based on the research findings from the participating countries. The publication is an official Annex report. Report 1,

High-temperature tensile constitutive data and models for structural steels in fire

November 30, 2011
Author(s)
William E. Luecke, Stephen W. Banovic, Joseph D. McColskey
This report documents the stress-strain behavior of a collection of structural steels recovered from the collapse of the World Trade Center. These steels, combined with literature data form the basis of a model for the stress-strain behavior of structural
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