Abstract Submission Deadline: July 9, 2021
Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2021
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
The SFPE Annual Conference is the premier gathering of leaders in the Fire Protection and Fire Safety Engineering industry. As we enter the next decade of the 2000s, SFPE is looking for individuals to present on topics that will lead our industry and society into 2021. Below are the 20 identified topics we are soliciting for the 2021 Conference.
To help us with planning, we ask that you please indicate into which of the following track topics that your proposed presentation best fits. Some of these topics have specific examples listed below which have been highlighted to further encourage topics:
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Tracks
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Preferred Topics
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□Human Behavior & Evacuation Modelling
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Demographics: Vulnerable Populations; Cultural Differences; Anthropometry
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Design egress scenarios
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Evacuation Strategies
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□Building Fire/Building Design
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Revit and 3D Building Design (BIM)
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High-Rise Building Design/Mass Timber/Facades
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PBD and Risk-Based Approach Fire Protection Design
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Commissioning and Maintaining Complex Buildings and Life Safety Systems
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Success Summary with Mid-Rise Wood Frame Structure
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□Resiliency/Sustainability
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Environmental impact of fire and fire suppression systems
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Impact of Climate Change on Fire Safety
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Evaluation of life expectancy for fire protection systems
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□Fire Dynamics
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Practical models for: extinction and reignition; under ventilated combustion; glass breakage; deflagrations/detonations
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Large compartment fires
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Ignition Frequencies
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□Fire Service
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Smart Firefighting: IoT integration; mechanical augmentation; fire department communication with BIM
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Wild fire/Urban Fire Fighting – Changes in Patters
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Fire Detection and Communication with Emergency Planning Process
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□Fire Safety Systems
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Impact of ITM on requirements for system reliability
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Protecting Storage with modern materials/Automated Storage Occupancies
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New Systems and Technology
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Risk-Based Approach to Achieving Acceptable Safety
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□Forensics/Investigations
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Improved guidance for quantifying measurement and calculation uncertainty
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Persistence of burn patterns under different compartment conditions
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□ “New Normal”
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FPE industry dealing with COVID/post-COVID
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Emerging Hazards (hydrogen, Li-Ion, Cannabis Extraction, etc.) or Wildfire Hazards
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New Technologies/Smart Technology/BIM
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□Professional Practice
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Business & Ownership in Consulting
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Engineering Ethics and Responsibility of the FPE
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Navigating mid-level career paths
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Navigating Roles evolving roles of FPEs, Insurers, and Architects within the regulatory system
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Submission Requirements
Presentation abstracts should provide sufficient detail regarding scope, results, and applications to determine the quality and applicability of the engineering concepts that would be presented. If your presentation is accepted, the description you provide below will be used for marketing the event and published in the conference program. Additional supplementary references beyond the listed word count may be included. Presentations must be noncommercial in nature. Total presentation time would be 25 minutes, comprised of 20 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions and answers. Presentations will be recorded and made available online as part of the conference proceedings.
The conference is scheduled to be held virtually on October 17-19, 2021.
Complete this form and submit Abstracts with a digital head shot of the presenters to: lguerrazzi@sfpe.org no later than July 9, 2021