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June 2009
Wayne D. Moore of Hughes Associates, Inc. received NFPA’s Standards Medal, the highest award presented by NFPA’s Standards Council for outstanding contributions to fire safety in the development of codes and standards.

June 2009
Governor of Florida, Charlie Crist reappoints Hamid Bahadori of Hughes Associates, Inc. to the Florida Building Commission.

May 2009
Statue of Liberty Crown to Reopen July 4th, Washington Post - Washington, DC, USA, "Baltimore-based Hughes Associates was hired to conduct the study. The Park Service closed the Statue of Liberty and nearby Ellis Island to the public ..."

CrownHeights.info » Don't Linger in Statue of Liberty's Crown, "The new fire safety and emergency evacuation study, commissioned by the National Parks Service and executed by Baltimore-based Hughes Associates Inc., says about 240 people a day could safely make the trip ..."

Silverscorpio.com » No more than 5 minutes for visitors in Statue of Liberty's crown, "Commissioned by the National Parks Service and executed by Baltimore-based Hughes Associates Inc., the new fire safety and emergency evacuation study has revealed that about 240 people could safely make the trip in a day ..."

March 2009
The Adequacy of Guidance on Agent Concentrations in Standards for Gaseous Fire Extinguishing Systems, prepared by Hughes Associates, Inc. for the Stratospheric Protection Division Office of Air and Radiation United States Environmental Protection Agency.

March 2009
Craig Beyler of Hughes Associates, Inc. has agreed to deliver The Institution of Fire Engineers' 2009 Rasbash Lecture on the theme "A Review of Fire Suppression Science and Engineering, Firepoint Theory and Beyond".

February 2009
The Fire Protection Research Foundation (FPRF), announced that HAI engineer Joseph Scheffey is the winner of the William M. Carey Award for the best paper on fire suppression presented at SUPDET 2008, the Foundation’s annual technical working conference on suppression and detection research and applications.

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Publications

June 2009
Smoke Detection Calculations – New Advances, Gottuk, D.T., NFPA Conference & Expo, Chicago, 2009.

June 2009
Video Image Detection (VID) Systems Installation Performance Criteria, Gottuk, D.T., NFPA Conference & Expo, Chicago, 2009.

March 2009
The Current and Future Applications of Water Mist Fire Suppression Systems, Part 1 - Introduction & Fundamentals, Part 2 - Types of Water Mist Systems and Equipment, Part 3 - Codes, Standards, Test Protocols, Part 4 - Future directions, Mawhinney, J. R., P.E., FSFPE, SFPE Atlanta Symposium, 2009.

February 2009
Smoke Alarm Response: Estimation Guidelines and Tenability Issues, Mealy, C.L. and Gottuk, D.T., SUPDET 2009.

February 2009
Foam Fire Suppression for High Challenge Shipboard Spaces, Scheffey, J. L., SUPDET 2009.

February 2009
Using Human and Technological Resources to Manage People Movement, S.M.V. Gwynne and D. L. Boswell, SUPDET 2009.

February 2009
Challenges in Integrating Mass Notification with Fire Alarm Systems, W.D. Moore, SUPDET 2009.

February 2009
Securing Schools by Design: Integrating CPTED & Technology, Summers, R.E., Consultant’s Corner, International Security Vendor Semi-Annual Publication.

February 2009
Pre-evacuation Data Collected from a Mid-rise Evacuation Exercise, Gwynne, S.M.V. and Boswell, D.L., Journal of Fire Protection Engineering.

February 2009
Understanding the Effectiveness of Notification Technologies in Assisting Vulnerable Populations, Gwynne, S.M.V. and Boswell, D.L., Journal of Fire Protection Engineering.

January 2009
Testing The Plastic: Research shows that not all composite intermediate bulk containers (CIBCs) are created equal when it comes to fire protection, Scheffey, J. L., P.E., NFPA Journal, January/February 2009.

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