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Conference Tracks Use these 12 convenient tracks as a guide for planning your session attendance. This year’s conference offers more than 150 educational sessions, divided into tracks to help you find the sessions that best meet your professional needs. Determining your attendance schedule in advance is the best way to maximize the value of the time you have to spend. Building & Life Safety 17 Sessions Technologies, best practices, and statistical data needed by designers, engineers, and building and fire officials responsible for plans review, inspections, and other building-related tasks. Codes & Standards 51 Sessions Expert guidance on the practical application of NFPA codes and standards, as well as information on recent updates and changes. Detection & Notification 10 Sessions Code requirements and design issues affecting the application of new technologies in alarm and signaling systems, and the impact of maintenance on system performance. Electrical 13 Sessions Best practices in the electrical industry and how they are influenced by new electrical design issues, successful maintenance programs, effective inspection techniques, and safety programs. Emergency Preparedness/ Business Continuity 10 Sessions The latest methodologies for accurately assessing risks and consequences, emergency preparedness, contingency planning, and incident management and recovery capabilities. Fire & Emergency Services 46 Sessions A look at what’s new in fire-fighting technology, safety preparedness for first responders, incident command strategies, and fire prevention and inspection techniques. Fire Protection Engineering 14 Sessions Ideas for meeting fire protection challenges using computer modeling, field testing, post-incident analyses, and other methods for developing performance-based building solutions. Fire Suppression 25 Sessions The importance of proper design, installation, inspection, testing, maintenance, and plan review to sprinkler system effectiveness. Green 3 Sessions How environmentally-friendly initiatives affect the design, maintenance, and testing of fire and life safety systems and components. Loss Control/Prevention 13 Sessions Strategies for mitigating risk through accurate assessment of occupancy and commodity classification, enhanced reliability of fire protection systems, and other risk factors. Public Education 19 Sessions New planning strategies and creative solutions for meeting the challenges of effective public fire and life safety education. Research 34 Sessions The latest research into critical fire and life safety initiatives, including the reliability of emerging technologies. CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS General Session monDAY, JUnE 10 • 1:00 – 3:00 pM Chair’s Remarks Philip C. Stittleburg Chair, NFPA Board of Directors President’s Report James M. Shannon NFPA President & CEO Keynote Address • Arie Crowne Theatre Team of Rivals: The Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Kearns Goodwin, world-renowned historian and author of the best-selling book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, will share lessons in leadership, building and maintaining teams in the midst of trying circumstances and overcoming obstacles on the path towards your goal. She will also share her experience with the feature film Lincoln which opened to rave reviews and received 7 Golden Globe and 12 Oscar nominations. Please join us for inspiration and historical insights that transcend time! Featured Presentation TUESDAY, JUnE 11 • 8:00 – 9:00 Am The Pentagon, Fire and Life Safety — Ten Years Later William J. Fries III Fire Marshal & Supervising Fire Protection Engineer, U.S. Department of Defense Ariam C. Kloehn Deputy Fire Marshal & Fire Protection Engineer, U.S. Department of Defense Fire protection and life safety features have significantly changed at the Pentagon during the ten plus years since the 9/11 terrorist attack on the building and its occupants. This session will discuss the changes made to enhance passive and active protection and life safety systems for the world’s largest office building. A project of this magnitude has many partners, unique problems, and “politics.” Case study examples will be shared, as well as the application and use of international building codes, NFPA standards, DoD Uniform Facilities Criteria, and code “plus” additions to reach solutions.

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NFPA Journal - March/April 2013

NFPA Journal - March/April 2013
Contents
First Word
In a Flash
Perspectives
Firewatch
Research
Heads Up
Structural Ops
In Compliance
Buzzwords
Outreach
Electrical Safety
Wildfire Watch
Cover Story: Storage Occupancies
Fifty Years of Smoke Detection
Industrial Occupancies
Chicago 2013
Fire Analysis + Research
Section Spotlight
What’s Hot
Looking Back

NFPA Journal - March/April 2013