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Contributors
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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.
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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.