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Contributors
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Jim Quiter, PE, FSFPE
Jim Quiter recently retired as a Principal of Arup (a global engineering firm), having last served as the Group Leader of their 300 person Los Angeles office. He chaired the task group that developed the 2nd edition of the Guide for Very Tall Buildings, as well as the original task group. He is a former President of SFPE. He is also a member of the NFPA Standards Council, Chair of the NFPA High-rise Building Safety Advisory Committee, author of the High-Rise chapter in the NFPA Handbook, and past chair of the NFPA Safety to Life Correlating Committee.
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Jeffrey Tubbs
A Principal with Arup where he leads the Americas Fire Skills Network and the Boston Consulting Practice, Jeff brings nearly 25 years of experience, and has led the development of innovative yet practical fire engineering strategies for projects across the US and around the world. Many of these projects have included unique smoke control strategies that were supported by practical egress designs.
Jeff has a unique background that blends course instruction, committee leadership, and subject matter expertise with practical smoke control and egress engineering design experience. He is well known for developing practical yet innovative designs.
Jeff was the primary instructor for the popular course FPE 555: Detection, Alarm and Smoke Control as an Adjunct Professor at WPI; he has been a member of the NFPA Smoke Management Committee for nearly 15 years, and he was Chair of the ASHRAE Technical Committee 5.6: Control of Fire and Smoke. Jeff was a member of the ASHRAE review sub-committee for the Handbook of Smoke Control Engineering (ASHRAE, 2012), Chair of the ASHRAE Technical Committee 5.9: Enclosed Vehicular Facilities Handbook sub-committee (fire safety guidance for road and rail tunnels and rail stations), and reader for the A Guide to Smoke Control in the 2006 IBC (ICC, 2006). He is Chair on the Chair of the ICC Means of Egress Committee (IBC 2021), primary author of the text Egress Design Solutions (Wiley, 2007), and a registered professional engineer in 12 states plus DC and an SFPE Fellow.