BFRL News Archive

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Summer 2008   James Turner, CII Annual Meeting, August 2008NIST Leader Calls for Commitment to Technology Innovation, Collaboration in Construction Industry.  Details... 
   
Summer 2008   Nanoparticle additives to lubricants commonly combined with refrigerants used in chillers may encourage secondary nucleation—bubbles on top of bubbles. The double-bubble effect enhances boiling heat transfer and, ultimately, could help to boost the energy efficiency of industrial-sized cooling systems.Cool! Nanoparticle Research Points to Energy Savings. Details...
   
Summer 2008   Three Experts Named to Earthquake Advisory Board.  Details...
   
Spring 2008   Firefighters watch as a fan, simulating wind, changes airflow and smoke conditions during experiments in a seven-story high-rise abandoned apartment building on New York City's Governors Island. The NIST tests examined firefighting techniques such as the use of positive pressure ventilation fans, wind control devices and hose streams to control or suppress heat and smoke from wind driven fires.NIST Evaluates Firefighting Tactics In NYC High-Rise Test . Details...
   
Spring 2008   Failure Investigations Report Highlights Efforts for Safer Buildings. Details...
   
Winter 2008   Elevators Seen as Playing Hi-Rise Fire Evacuation Role.  Details...
   
Winter 2008   NIST is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to quantify the dangers of improperly used gasoline-powered portable generators and to evaluate possible technical solutions to the problem. Here, NIST researcher Steven Emmerich adjusts a multi-gas analyzer that will measure carbon monoxide, oxygen, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons concentrations produced by such a generator located, against safety advice, in a garage.NIST to Study Hazards of Portable Gasoline-Powered Generators.  Details...
   
Winter 2008   NIST Firebrand Device Could Save U.S. and Japanese Homes.  Details...
   
Winter 2008   Fire Tests Examine Structural Collapse Hazards and Warning Devices. Details...
   
Winter 2008   SRMs Track Fire Retardants in Humans and Environment.  Details...
   
Winter 2008   A sheet of laser light illuminating the surface of the heat exchanger during the air velocity measurement experiment.NIST Helps Heat Pumps ‘Go With the Flow’ to Boost Output.  Details...
   
Winter 2008   NIST Begins Technical Study of South Carolina Warehouse Fire. Details...
   
Winter 2008   BFRL Winners of December 2007 Medal Awards.  Details...
   
Winter 2008  

Holiday Fire Safety: Trees that have been watered properly are harder to ignite than dry trees.  Details...

 

   
Fall 2007  
photo of firebrand generator

NIST Firebrand Device Could Save U.S. and Japanese Homes.  Details...

 

   
Fall 2007   Federal Register Notice Seeking Nominations for Membership on NIST Federal Advisory Committees  Details...
   
Summer 2007   Fire Tests Examine Structural Collapse Hazards and Warning Devices. Details...
   
Summer 2007   NIST WTC Recommendations Spur New Model Building Codes.  Details...
   
Summer 2007   NIST researcher on the site of the warehouse fire.

NIST Begins Technical Study of South Carolina Warehouse Fire.  Details...

   
Summer 2007   Check Out the NEHRP Success Stories Newsletter, "Seismic Waves".  Read the newsletters...
   
Summer 2007   Building Retrofits Reduce Chem/Bio Hazards Risks.  Details...
   
 
Summer 2007   Check Out the NEHRP Success Stories Newsletter, "Seismic Waves".  Read the newsletters...
   
Spring 2007   Questions and Answers Clarifying Findings of NIST Home Smoke Alarm Study.  Details...
   
Spring 2007   NIST Risk Mitigation Guide Gives Planners a Head Start. Details...
   
Spring 2007   NIST Building Software Offers Green Product Advice.  Details...
     
Spring 2007   Construction Strategies to Avoid Progressive Collapse.  Details...
   
Spring 2007  
Indoor Air Contaminants

Air Contaminants Databases Ease Healthy Homes Planning.  Details...

 

   
Winter 2007   Workshop on Fire Reconstructions – Use of Computer Models to Simulate Real Fires, April 3, 2007.  Details...
   
Winter 2007   Annual Fire Conference 2007, April 4-5 (date changed), Call for Abstracts due January 15, 2007.  Details...
   
Winter 2007   Image from fire test.NIST Test Fans the Flames for High-Rise Fire Safety.  Details...
     
Winter 2007   Workshops Address How to Avoid Progressive Collapse.  Details...
   
Winter 2007  

New Fact Sheet Addresses Questions on WTC Report.  Details...

   
Winter 2007   Enhanced Air Quality Modeling Software Available.  Details...
   
Winter 2007   Holiday Fire Safety.  Details...

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