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W
HEN I ARRIVED AT the Fire Protection Research Foundation as a research
project manager 10 years ago, I wasn't very familiar with its history. But I knew
I wanted to be part of something that sounded exciting and on the cutting edge
of fire and life safety research.
At that time, the Foundation's research portfolio included activities related to hazards of
composite intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), residential fire sprinkler water usage, hazards
of lithium-ion batteries, home cooking fires, high volume/low speed fans and sprinkler
operation, wildfire risk, and a handful of other diverse and timely topics. The diversity of the
research portfolio and the knowledge that I could play a role in improving safety around the
world drew me in. A decade later, I'm the Foundation's executive director, responsible for leading
research initiatives on fire protection, emergency response, and virtually everything that
challenges safety in the built environment. We deliver research results by collaborating with
project sponsors, project contractors, and advisory panel members. The variety of work we do,
along with the potential life-saving impact of those efforts, continue to make my Foundation
experience as exciting as it was when I first walked through NFPA's doors.
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the research foundation, a milestone that
acknowledges our history of important contributions to fire safety research while positioning
us for more breakthroughs to come. In 1982, NFPA established the Fire Protection Research
Foundation to address a growing need for research to better inform NFPA's body of codes and
standards. Its first project resulted in a report, " Field Test of a Retrofit Sprinkler System, "
which was published in 1983 in response to several deadly hotel fires in the early 1980s. Two
of those fires occurred within two weeks of each other in late 1980: the MGM Grand Hotel &
Casino blaze in Las Vegas, which killed 78 guests and seven employees, and the fire that tore
through the Stouffer's Inn in Harrison, New York, killing 26 people. The research detailed in
our report helped achieve wide acceptance of plastic piping for hotel fire sprinkler retrofits.
That inaugural report is included in a comprehensive library of Foundation research reports-
more than 370 so far-available to the public at nfpa.org/foundation.
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