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Airtightness Evaluation of Shelter-in-Place Spaces for Protection Against Airborne Chembio Releases

October 15, 2009

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Heather Davis, Steven J. Emmerich, William S. Dols

Due to concerns about potential airborne chemical and biological releases in or near buildings, building owners and managers and other decision makers are faced with a number of options for increasing their building s level of protection against such

Best Practice Guidelines for Structural Fire Resistance Design of Concrete and Steel Structures DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (for Final Version see NIST TN 1681)

February 4, 2009

Author(s)

Long T. Phan

** DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (for Final Version see NIST TN 1681) ** This document is intended to provide practicing engineers and building code officials with a technical resource that contains the current best practice for fire-resistant design of

Modeling Human Behavior during Building Fires

December 30, 2008

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski

Evacuation models, including engineering hand calculations and computational tools, are used to evaluate the level of safety provided by buildings during evacuation. Building designs, occupant procedures, and notification technology are based on the

Building Air Change Rate Estimates for CBR Analysis

September 15, 2008

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily

Building air change rates impact energy consumption for space conditioning and indoor contaminant levels in relation to general indoor air quality issues as well as occupant exposure to airborne chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) agents. With

Diesel Adsorption to PVC and Iron During Contaminated Water Flow and Flushing Tests

September 9, 2008

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper provides aqueous diesel contamination and decontamination tests of a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) surface and an iron (Fe) surface. A test apparatus designed for the purpose of studying adsorption of diesel from a flowing dilute diesel/water mixture

Procedures for the Decontamination of Building Plumbing Systems

April 7, 2008

Author(s)

Stephen J. Treado, Mark A. Kedzierski, V. J. Gallardo

This paper presents a discussion of methods for decontaminating building plumbing systems and restoring them to safe operation, based on generic contaminant characteristics. More specific recommendations are being developed that link decontamination

Performance of Physical Structures in Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita: A Reconnaissance Report (NIST TN 1476)

June 30, 2006

Author(s)

Stephen A. Cauffman, Long T. Phan, Fahim Sadek, William P. Fritz, Dat Duthinh, Walter J. Rossiter Jr

This is the final report on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) led-reconnaissance to assess the performance of physical structures during Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. The report describes the environmental conditions (wind

The Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE): Science, Structure and Examples

January 1, 2001

Author(s)

John van de Lindt, Daniel Cox, Paolo Gardoni, Jong Lee, Jamie Padgett, Therese P. McAllister, Andre Barbosa, Harvey Cutler, Shannon van Zandt

ABSTRACT: Community resilience is the ability of a community to plan for, withstand, and recover from a natural hazard such as an earthquake or flood. Advancing community (or urban) resilience requires: (1) an understanding of how the physical

Guidelines for Automatic Data Processing Physical Security and Risk Management

June 1, 1974

Author(s)

Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology National Bureau of Standards

[Withdrawn February 8, 2005; Superseded by NIST SP 800-30 (July 2002): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=151254] This publication provides guidelines to be used by Federal organizations in structuring physical security programs