July 2010
Kenneth Gentile, P.E. has joined Hughes Associates, Inc. to lead a new office in Albuquerque, NM.
May 2010
Nicoletta, Michael, A.I.A., joins Hughes Associates, Inc. as Senior Fire Protection Consultant
April 2010
Bruce Campbell of Hughes Associates Inc, wins prestigious Walter W. Maybee award from the Department of Energy, in recognition of his knowledge, experience, dedication, professionalism, and his lifetime achievements in the pursuit of fire safety.
April 2010
Best Paper Award at International Tunnel Symposium goes to HAI’s J. R. Mawhinney and J. Trelles.
September 2009
"Nationally known fire scientist", Craig Beyler, authors report for Texas Forensic Science Commission that concludes "Texas fire investigators had no basis to rule a deadly house fire was arson – a finding that led to the murder conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham."
See the article in Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.
June 2010
The Impact of Portable Fire Extinguisher Agents on Cultural Resource Materials, Scheffey, J. L. and Forssell, E.W., NFPA Conference & Expo,
Las Vegas 2010.
May 2010
Fire Alarm System Maintenance and Upgrades – Compatibility, Reliability, and Code Compliance, Moore, W. D., The May 2010 issue of College Planning & Management.
February 2010
Video Image Detection and Optical Flame Detection for
Industrial Applications, Gottuk, D.T. and Dinaburg, J.B., SUPDET 2010.
October 2009
Fire Dynamics and Forensic Analysis of Limited
Ventilation Compartment Fires
Volume 1: Experimental, Wolfe, A.J., Mealy, C.L. and Gottuk, D.T.
October 2009
Fire Dynamics and Forensic Analysis of Limited
Ventilation Compartment Fires
Volume 2: Modeling, Boehmer, H., Floyd, J. and Gottuk, D.T.
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.