QUINCY, MA — Two technical staff members for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) who serve on committees that examined the Sept. 11 collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings will discuss investigative team findings during NFPA’s World Safety Conference & Exposition™ in Minneapolis on May 20.
Robert Duval, NFPA’s senior fire investigator who served on FEMA’s Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT), and Robert E. Solomon, P.E., NFPA’s assistant vice president, building and life safety codes, who served on the special task force on the Future of Tall Buildings, formed by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), will be joined by BPAT team member James Milke, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland, for a presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session.