Development of Fire Guidelines

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has tasked the Multihazard Mitigation Council to develop Best Practices Guidelines for Fire Safety Design of Concrete and Steel Structures. Building on a workshop held in October 2003 that laid out a roadmap of topics requiring future development, NIST is stepping forward with one of the many topics discussed.

The Fire Guidelines has a five person steering committee and four lead authors who have been collaborating with others to examine risk mitigation as well as concrete and steel structures design. The Guide will include appendices with information on existing guidelines, research needs, and design examples. A workshop for interested professionals to review and comment on the guidelines draft was held in March 2005. After the workshop, the comments have been incorporated into the document which is now in the finalization stage.