Jason Averill
Position
Research Engineer
Integrated Performance Assessment Group
Fire Research Division
Task
Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communications
Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
BS Civil Engineering, 1996
MS Fire Protection Engineering, 1998
Johns Hopkins University
Continuing Studies towards Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
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Mr. Averill joined NIST in 1998 as a fire protection engineer after completing a one-year internship. He has worked on full- and bench-scale fire experiments (including evaluation of smoke detector performance, material flammability, hazard assessment of passenger rail cars, and product toxicity), computer fire and egress modeling, building evacuation research, and codes and standards activities.
In 2005, Mr. Averill was awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Federal Service for leading the evacuation project as part of the Federal Investigation of the World Trade Center disaster. Mr. Averill was also awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for Superior Federal Service in 2004 for research characterizing the performance of home smoke alarms.
Mr. Averill's building code activities include membership on the International Code Council's IBC Means of Egress Committee, the National Fire Protection Association's Life Safety Code Means of Egress Committee, American Society of Mechanical Engineers A17.1 Task Group on Emergency Use of Elevators by Occupants and Firefighters, and the NIST Institutional Review Board (Review of Human Subjects Research). He is a member of the National Fire Protection Association, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, and the Salamander Society. |
