RaCERS faculty on the Road

RaCERS faculty are in frequent demand for lectures and instruction. RaCERS Executive Committee and Associate Professor Glenn Corbett presented on “Smoke Control Systems” operation by the fire service at the Fire Safety Directors Association of Greater New York’s 33rd Annual Research Symposium held in Brooklyn in October. Corbett shared the dais with Frank Leeb, Chief of the FDNY Academy, who spoke on challenges of complex buildings; and Battalion Chiefs Simon Ressner and Stephan Spall of FDNY, both of whom serve as structural engineers for New York Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1. They spoke on rapid diagnosis of structural safety following vehicle collision and partial collapse.

FSDANY Speakers

RaCERS Director Charles Jennings presented on the role of automatic fire sprinklers in the 1991 One Meridian Plaza Fire, at the time the largest high-rise fire in US history, at the Mid-Atlantic meeting of the National Fire Sprinkler Association. He presented in September in Vernon, New Jersey.