Contributors
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Emily Brecher
Emily Brecher has been a fire consultant in the Arup Boston Office for 5 years. She attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute for both her undergraduate and Masters degrees. Since joining Arup, Emily has been involved in a wide variety of projects including code consulting, fire and egress modeling, fire alarm and fire protection design, and hazardous materials consulting. She is the 2nd Vice President of the New England Chapter of SFPE.
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Jim Quiter
With more than 40 years of experience as a fire engineer, Jim is a globally recognized as a leader in Fire Protection Engineering. Jim’s experience blends an excellent understanding of fire protection engineering and performance-based codes with wide recognition as an expert in US codes and their applications. As a result of his active participation in the code-change process and participation on major projects throughout the world, he is well renowned within the US and International Code community. He is currently the Chair of the NFPA High Rise Building Safety Advisory Committee, Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SPFE) and an active member of NFPA Standards Council. Jim has participated in many projects involving smoke control design and testing. He was the lead engineer on one of the first special inspection for smoke control projects at the Luxor in Las Vegas. He is a past President of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and has been a major participant in the US approach to performance-based codes as the former Chair of NFPA 101 Life Safety Code Task Force.
Jim recently retired from Arup. His last position was as the managing Principal (2017- February 2020) of Arup’s Los Angeles office, with fiduciary duties for projects and key clients of a 300 person, $100 million office. Other positions within Arup included leading the fire business in the Americas, leading the consulting business in the Americas, leading Management Consulting globally, and Managing Principal of the San Francisco and Chicago offices.