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BFRL Airflow Model Featured in Industry Smoke Control Guidance

CONTAM, the airflow and contaminant transport model developed by BFRL for chemical and biological pollutant movement in buildings, has now been noted as the tool of choice for designing and analyzing smoke management systems. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) smoke control design manual, originally published in 1983, has just been reissued. This third edition contains an extensive description of the CONTAM model and its application to the design and analysis of pressurization smoke control systems. In this application, one can simulate the performance of elevator shaft, stairwell, and stairwell vestibule pressurization systems, as well as systems that exhaust from the fire zone. Having CONTAM featured in this document will facilitate greatly the design of smoke control systems that perform as intended and will allow the analysis of systems of greater complexity than can be analyzed with any other available tool.

Contact:
Andrew Persily, 301-975-6418
Building Environment Division

Army Corp of Engineers Honors NIST Participants in the Pentagon Rebuilding Effort

Following the terrorist incidents of Sept. 11, 2001, the Army Corps of Engineers organized a group to advise the Pentagon renovation construction effort to ensure that best practices were followed during rehabilitation of the Pentagon in order to mitigate such attacks in the future. The team included a wide range of expertise in safety, security, and construction, including John Gross, Walter Jones, and Long Phan of BFRL. They have been recognized by the Corps in a special citation that reads, in part:

“The cross disciplinary team, including John Gross, Walter Jones and Long Phan of NIST is officially commended for valuable contributions as members of the Pentagon Rebuild Retrofit Program Study in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attack. This study was conducted in support of the Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, and team members came from several Army laboratories as well as other federal agencies and civilian institutions. This extremely high visi-bility study resulted in a number of options to improve the efficiency or performance of protective measures for the Pentagon.”
 

Contact:
Walter Jones, 301-975-6887
Fire Research Division
 

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