NFPA'S Fire Protection Research Foundation to Hold Symposium
Jack E. Snell, director of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will be the keynote speaker at the eighth annual Fire Risk & Hazard Research Application Symposium, to be held July 9-11 at the BWI Airport Marriott in Baltimore.
Snell's topic will be "Fire Science and Engineering Come of Age." He will
also discuss NIST's World Trade Center investigation, and the new National
Construction Safety Team. Sponsored by the Fire Protection Research
Foundation of the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association), the symposium
will also feature talks on fire and the environment, fire and toxicity, new
laboratory capabilities, and the activities of the foundation's new Fire and
Transportation Vehicles Research Advisory Council.