Code Developer Convenes Committee To Offer Advice on Safety Issues 12/27/2004
The National Fire Protection Associations fledgling advisory committee on high-rise safety may ultimately advocate more code changes relating to building operations and maintenance than physical changes, said its chairman at the groups kickoff meeting in Boston.
"I think the need has been established to look at" high-rise fire safety, not just because of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, but because of two recent fires in Chicago and one in Caracas, said James L. Quiter, chairman of NFPAs High-Rise Building Safety Advisory Committee, at the Dec. 14-15 meeting. "But I dont think were going into this with a pre-established notion there will be major code changes coming out of it." The fire protection engineer is a principal in the San Francisco office of ARUP.