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the award, with commendation given to
deceased co-inventor Len Gibson. The
DiNenno Prize was launched in 2014 to
recognize groundbreaking innovations
that have had a significant impact in the
building, fire, and electrical safety fields.

Standards Medal
Kenneth E. Isman, a clinical professor
in fire protection engineering at the
University of Maryland, was awarded
the 2017 NFPA Standards Medal. The
award recognizes outstanding contributions to fire safety and the development
of NFPA codes and standards.
Isman, who was a member of the
NFPA Standards Council for seven
years, has served on numerous NFPA
committees and is active on the NFPA
101, 5000, 20, 13, 13D, and 13R committees. He has contributed significantly
to the handbooks for NFPA 13, 13D,
and 13R, has participated in Fire Protection Research Foundation projects,
and played an integral role in creating
the first edition of NFPA 25, Inspection,
Testing and Maintenance of WaterBased Fire Protection Systems.

Shannon Advocacy Medal

AP/WIDE WORLD

Ann Jones was named recipient of
the 2017 James M. Shannon Advocacy

Medal for her lifelong devotion to
fire safety and her influential role in
her home nation of Wales enacting a
national requirement for residential
sprinklers. The medal, established
to honor former NFPA president
Jim Shannon, honors a person who
advances the mission of promoting fire
safety by proactively working toward
key changes that reduce fire loss.
Because of Jones' efforts, Wales became
the first country in the world to pass a
national sprinkler requirement in 2011.

Harry C. Bigglestone Award
Enrico Ronchi, Erica D. Kuligowski,
Daniel Nilsson, Richard D. Peacock,
and Paul A. Reneke were awarded
the 2017 Bigglestone Award for their
paper, "Assessing the Verification and
Validation of Building Fire Evacuation
Models." The award, honoring former
Fire Protection Research Foundation trustee Harry C. Bigglestone, is
given annually to a paper appearing
in Fire Technology that best represents
excellence in the communication of
fire protection concepts. The paper
discussed issues relating to standard
procedures for verifying and validating
building fire evacuation models and
protocols.

Fire Protection
Research Foundation Medal
A research report aimed at developing guidance for the fire protection of
lithium-ion batteries earned the 2017
Research Foundation Medal. The medal
recognizes a FPRF project completed in
the previous year that best exemplifies
the Foundation's mission, commitment to
overcoming technical challenges, and a
collaborative approach. The project is the
third phase of a larger project that seeks
to provide technical data to NFPA 13,
Installation of Sprinkler Systems, on how
to protect lithium-ion batteries in storage.
Benjamin Ditch of FM Global received
the Medal on behalf of all those involved.

Industrial Fire Protection
Section Fire Prevention Week
Award
Siemens Building Technologies' comic-book-inspired Fire Prevention
Week program was named winner of
the Industrial Fire Protection Section
Fire Prevention Week Award. The
award recognizes businesses that promote fire and related safety messages
to their employees and communities
during Fire Prevention Week. Siemens
partnered with Marvel Comics to produce the comic.

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STATION
REMEMBERED
In May, a memorial
opened in West
Warwick, Rhode
Island, to commemorate the 100
people who lost
their lives in the
Station nightclub
fire there in 2003.
The blaze was the
fourth deadliest
nightclub fire in
United States
history, and it
prompted NFPA to
lower the occupant
threshold for when
fire sprinklers are
required in assembly occupancies.

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