High-Rise Building Safety: Emerging Threats and Evacuation Challenges

About This Event

SAVE THE DATE: The Regenhard Center is assembling another day-long high-rise building safety conference. Speakers will include:


Roger Sakowich, Assistant Chief, FDNY


Jake Pauls, Occupant Movement Expert


Justin Francis, Australian Fire Service Officer, and Churchill Fellow (on high-rise practices in world cities)


Glenn Corbett, John Jay College, on Active Shooter Threats in a High-Rise environment: Learning from Las Vegas 


Norman Groner, John Jay College, Occupant Movement Strategies and Controls


James Quintiere, University of Maryland, on Post-Flashover Fires




Other topics include:


Update on Grenfell Tower inquiries and changes


Updates on Wood structural systems in tall buildings


Forecast of the height and number of tall buildings globally in 2050


More details to follow.


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