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Taking Measure

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Jason Averill

Averill

Jason Averill is the chief of the Materials and Structural Systems Division. Mr. Averill started at NIST in the Fire Protection Engineering Division in 1997 and has devoted his technical career to making buildings safer for the public and first responders, first as a research fire protection engineer and currently overseeing technical work involving community resilience, earthquake and wind engineering, and material science.