Built Environment Usability and Safety: Connecting Research, Advocacy, and Practice

Formal welcome by meeting host: Charles Jennings, PhD, FIFireE, Center Director.

Introduction of meeting initiators & program planning team (listed alphabetically):
• Justin Francis, BAEmergMngt, GIFireE, CF, Queensland Fire Service, Australia
• Ed Galea, Bsc, Dip.Ed, PhD, CMath, FIMA, CEng, FIFireE, University of Greenwich, UK
• Jake Pauls, BArch, CPE, HonDSc, Building Use & Safety Consultant, United States & Canada
• Keith Still, PhD, FIMA, FICPEM, SFIIRSM, MEWI, FIPM, FHEA, University of Manchester, UK

Introduction (by Jake Pauls) of Honored Guest and Achievement Award Presentation: TBA

Self Introductions of all other participants in the meeting, sharing only title (if Dr.), name
and where they are normally geographically located (no more than 5 seconds each; video recorded)

Program and logistical/housekeeping announcements.

Keynote Speaker 1: JUSTIN FRANCIS: A fire service perspective on responding to the
dangers of earth, air, fire and water in one of the hottest places on the globe.

Refreshment, comfort, networking, and Web communications break.

Keynote Speaker 2: ED GALEA: Connecting academia and the real world of built
environment settings plus transportation systems and extending beyond fire safety.

Keynote Speaker 3: KEITH STILL: Crowd behavior and major event safety plus security:
working with law enforcement officers and facility management personnel.

Keynote Commenter: JAKE PAULS: Connecting Research, Advocacy and Practice plus some
remarks summing up public health and safety interactions plus perspectives.

Lunch Break

First, one-hour Breakout Session (in main meeting room and two breakout rooms) with
choice of follow-up questions to the three Keynote Speakers and discussions among participants.
After the close of this session, participants should move to one of the two other options.

Second, one-hour Breakout Session (in main meeting room and two breakout rooms)
with choice of follow-up questions to the three Keynote Speakers and discussions among
participants. After the close of this session, participants in the breakout rooms should move back to
the main meeting room.

Refreshment, comfort, networking, and Web communications break.

Afternoon Plenary Session. Reflections by Jake Pauls and Honored Guest of their 100 years
of observing massive changes in our understanding of people’s movement, other behavior and risks
faced in built environment settings.

End-of-Day Panel of All Speakers. Panel member summations of breakout sessions
followed by open discussion by all participants, including their interests in what is addressed in the
next 1.5 days of the meeting plus who should have opportunities for making remarks from the
podium in plenary and breakout sessions on the second day.

Announcements by meeting host, Charles Jennings.

Self Introductions of any new participants in the meeting (not available for such
introductions on Day 1), sharing only title (if Dr.) name and where they are normally geographically
located (no more than 5 seconds each; video recorded)

(To Be Confirmed) Panel of Public Service Professionals concerned with Fire, Law
Enforcement, Public Health, Emergency Medical Services, Building Standards and Control,
Etc., on enhancing and maintaining public safety and health.

Refreshment, comfort, networking, and Web communications break.

(Speakers to be confirmed) Panel of Selected Authors of Books and Mass Media
Journalists on Topics Relevant to the Meeting Themes and Focus Issues. (See breakout of
invited participants who are candidates for this—at end of the main listing.) What has been learned
and how well has it been responded to by the general public, public health and safety officials,
political leaders and others? This could include highly selected readings and other very brief
presentations (e.g., video clips, such as very brief excerpts of a video produced by Jake Pauls,
working with journalist Amanda Ripley, interviewing another pioneer in the field, Dr. John Bryan).

Short Lunch Break

First, one-hour Breakout Session (in main meeting room and two breakout rooms) with
choice of follow-up questions to the two morning panelists plus, collectively, the keynote speakers
from Day 1, and discussions among participants. After the close of this session, participants should
move to one of the two other options.

Second, one-hour Breakout Session (in main meeting room and two breakout rooms)
with choice of new breakout session leaders and topics (as described for the first breakout session).

Refreshment, comfort, networking, and Web communications break.

Afternoon Plenary Session. Questions and discussion on all the breakout session activities
and conclusions.

Announcements by meeting host, Charles Jennings.

Self Introductions of any new participants in the meeting (not available for such
introductions on Days 1 or 2), sharing only title (if Dr.) name and where they are normally
geographically located (no more than 5 seconds each; video recorded)

Summary Reflections on What Has Been Discussed: Keynote speakers and selected
others, sitting as a panel, followed by questions and comments from all participants.

Refreshment, comfort, networking, and Web communications break.

Summing Up the Meeting: So What Now? Panel of Selected Participants, especially
those with Public Safety and Health Decision-making and Implementation Roles (TBD). Open
discussion by all participants.

Formal Close of Meeting. Charles Jennings, plus meeting initiators & program
planning team. Plans for documenting the meeting for an accessible record, if not a formal
publication/video. A huge “Thank You” to all who participated.

The conference will be held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City
University of New York. He College if located at 524 West 59 Street in
Manhattan. That is on the far west side of Manhattan just off Columbus
Circle.
A block of preferred rate rooms are being held at the Fairfield Inn by Marriott
Central Park at 538 West 58 Street, New York, NY 10019 (across the street
from campus).
To obtain the special rate of $262 (plus fees), call 1-844-205-3935 and ask for the
“Built Environment Group” rate.