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ASHRAE Standard 62.1: Problems, Perceptions and Panaceas?

March 1, 2007
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Dennis Stanke, Gordon Holness, Richard Hermans
ASHRAE Standard 62 was first published in 1973, with the title Standards for Natural and Mechanical Ventilation [REF]. The most recent version (designated as 62.1 and titled Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality) was published in 2004, with some

Building Retrofits for Increased Protection Against Airborne Chemical and Biological Releases

March 1, 2007
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Robert E. Chapman, Steven J. Emmerich, William S. Dols, Heather Davis, Priya D. Lavappa, Amy S. Rushing
Due to concerns about potential airborne chemical and biological (chembio) releases in or near buildings, building owners and managers and other decision makers are considering retrofitting buildings to provide some degree of protection against such events

Verification and Validation--How to Determine the Accuracy of Fire Models.

March 1, 2007
Author(s)
Mark H. Salley, Jason Dreisbach, Kendra Hill, Bijan Najafi, Francisco Joglar, Anthony Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan, Richard Peacock, Robert Kassawara
Both domestically and worldwide, there is a movement to introduce risk-informed and performance-based analyses into fire protection engineering practice. One key tool needed to support risk-informed, performance-based (RI/PB) fire protection is fire models

Localized Residential Fire Suppression Systems (NIST SP 1006)

February 1, 2007
Author(s)
Daniel M. Madrzykowski
A Presentation by Daniel Madrzykowski. Localized Residential Fire Suppression Systems: -Kitchen fire hazard characterization. -Investigate "passive" and "active" fire protection systems. -Full-scale demonstrations/evaluations.

Structural Collapse Research at NIST

January 1, 2007
Author(s)
D W. Stroup, Nelson P. Bryner
Approximately 20 % of fire fighters killed at structure fires over the past ten years have been as a result of structural collapse. Predicting a structural collapse is one of the most challenging tasks facing an incident commander at a fire scene. Usually

Elevator Controls.

December 1, 2006
Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski, R P. Fleming, Jeffrey Tubbs, Christopher Marrion, Jill Dirksen, Chris Duke, Debbie Prince, Lee F. Richardson, Dave Beste, Dottie Stanlaske
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