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Resilience

Disaster & failure studies

May 2016 Agenda

National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee (NCSTAC) Meeting

3 May 2016

ROOM C121 (THE WEST SQUARE ROOM), ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 101

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS & TECHNOLOGY (NIST)

100 BUREAU DRIVE

GAITHERSBURG, MD 20899

AGENDA (PDF Download)

MEETING GOALS:

Receive NIST's response to the Committee's 2015 annual report recommendations
Receive update on the progress of the implementation of NIST Joplin tornado investigation's recommendations
Receive update on the Disaster and Failure Studies program

Tuesday, 3 May
Time	Topic	Discussion Leader
*Opening Remarks*
9:00 - 9:15 am	Meeting Goals Agenda	Jeremy Isenberg NCSTAC Chairperson
9:15 – 9:20 am	Welcome Opening Remarks	Kent Rochford Associate Director for Laboratory Programs NIST
9:20 – 9:35 am	NIST's Response to NCSTAC's 2015 Report to Congress	Howard Harary Director Engineering Laboratory, NIST
9:35 – 9:50 am	Committee Discussion of the NIST Response to the 2015 Recommendations	Jeremy Isenberg
*Progress on Implementation of the Joplin Tornado Recommendations*
9:50–10:45 am	Summary of Progress on Joplin Recommendations Tornado Hazard Maps	Long Phan Group Leader, Structures Group NIST Melissa Faletra Wind Engineer, Applied Research Associates, Inc.
10:45 – 11:00 am	BREAK
11:00 – 12:00 pm	- Standards ASCE - Tornado Wind Speed Estimation ASCE - Performance-Based Design for Extreme Winds NFPA - Mass Evacuation and Sheltering - IBC and IEBC Code Change Proposals - Guidance on Selection of Best Available Refuge Areas for Tornadoes -NFPA Update on Emergency Communications (Recommendation 13) - NOAA Grid-based, probabilistic threat communication: Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs)	Marc Levitan Acting Director of NWIRP NIST Erica Kuligowski Group Leader, Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group, NIST Dave Jorgensen Research Meteorologist and Chief, NOAA/National Severe Storms Lab/Warning R&D Division
12:00 – 1:45 pm	Lunch & Tour of the Nation Fire Research Laboratory COMMITTEE PHOTO
1:45–2:00 pm	Public Comment Period	Jeremy Isenberg
*Disaster and Failure Studies Program Updates*
2:00 – 2:25 pm	Disaster and Failure Studies Overview - recent disasters Public access of the Chile Earthquake Data Repository/Status of the Joplin and Moore Tornadoes Repository Update on Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning - Thrust 3	Jason Averill, Division Chief, Materials and Structural Systems Division NIST
*WUI Fires and NFRL Updates*
2:25 – 2:35 pm	WUI Fires and NFRL Updates	Nelson Bryner, Division Chief, Fire Research Division NIST
*Reauthorization of the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program*
2:35 – 2:45 pm	National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP) Reauthorization	Marc Levitan
2:45– 3:00 pm	BREAK
*NCSTAC Discussions*
3:00 – 4:00 pm	Ask of the Committee regarding NCST Deployment	Howard Harary
4:00 – 5:00 pm	NCSTAC Preparation of Annual Report to Congress	Jeremy Isenberg
5:00 pm	ADJOURN

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Created May 6, 2016, Updated April 5, 2022