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Contributors
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Steve Gwynne
Steve has nearly 25 years of experience in pedestrian dynamics, human behaviour in fire and evacuation modelling. He has worked for the Canadian /US governments, academic institutes in the US/Sweden/Canada/UK and in consultancy. He has been involved in data collection, model development/application, procedural design, and regulatory development. He has worked in the aviation, maritime, rail and built environments, and has also worked in large-scale disasters (e.g. wildfire incidents). Steve is currently the Research Lead at Movement Strategies and Industrial Professor of Evacuation and Pedestrian Dynamics at Lund University, as well being on the adjunct faculty of Universities of Maryland (US) and Memorial (Canada). He co-authors three chapters in the SFPE Handbook and was a co-author of the SFPE Guide to Human Behaviour in Fire (2nd Edition). He has also contributed to NFPA, ISO, IMO, ICC, NBC and SFPE documents.
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Aoife Hunt
Aoife is a leading specialist in people movement and emergency planning. She has 14 years' experience in simulating human behaviour and pedestrian dynamics and completed an award-winning PhD in evacuation modelling. Leading on high profile projects across sectors, Aoife advises on the movements of people and materials in buildings, hospitals, stadia and events, the public realm, and transport systems across the world. She leads research projects to advance the safety and security of crowded places, specialising in human behaviour in emergencies and pedestrian movement through security overlays, including through hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) barriers, and search and screening checkpoints.
Aoife has delivered more than 50 projects in pedestrian planning and drives innovative technical solutions to address complex safety and security requirements. She helps owners and operators to improve the efficiency, safety, and profitability of their design and operations. She is regularly consulted on national guidance documents such as the 6th Edition of the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (Green Guide), SG02 Planning for Social Distancing at Sports Grounds, the Public Realm Design Guide, CIBSE Guide D, PAS 127, and is currently co-authoring the chapter on evacuation modelling in the SFPE Fire Engineering handbook.
Aoife is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, and delivers lectures at several academic institutions on crowd flow modelling, human behaviour in emergencies, and evacuation analysis. -
Karen Boyce
Dr. Karen Boyce is a Senior Lecturer and a member of the Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT) centre at Ulster University where she also Course Director for MSc Fire Safety Engineering. Her research interest lies primarily in relation to understanding the behaviour and movement of occupants during evacuation and much of her research has focused on issues related to the evacuation of disabled people. High profile projects have included an investigation into the behaviours of evacuees of World Trade Centre on 9/11. She is the author of 70+ research publications and a member of the Advisory Board of Fire and Materials. She is co-author (with Dr Steve Gwynne) of the chapter entitled Engineering Data in the 5th Edition of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers Handbook.
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Beth Tubbs
SFPE’s President-Elect, has been with the ICC since 1995. During her time at ICC, Beth has had a role in a variety of different activities within ICC and with outside organizations such as SFPE, ASME and IFSS. She was the lead staff during the initial development of the ICC Performance Code. This led to extensive involvement at a national and international level with performance building regulations and performance-based design. Beth has also been active with prescriptive building and fire code development and application throughout her career. She is currently the secretariat to the International Existing Building Code, ICC Performance Code and the International Fire Code and lead staff for the ICC Fire Code Action Committee.