Richard W. Bukowski
Position
Senior Engineer
Integrated Performance Assessment Group
Fire Research Division
Task
Analysis of Building and Fire Codes and Practices
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology, B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1970
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Richard W. Bukowski P.E., FSFPE is Standards and Codes Coordinator for the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Senior Engineer in the Integrated Performance Assessment Group. Mr. Bukowski is very active within the U.S. and international standards communities. He is a member of the Standards Council of the National Fire Protection Association, which is the body that administers the NFPA’s standards development process and issues all NFPA documents. Mr. Bukowski is Coordinator of the International Council on Building Standards and Documentation (CIB), Working Commission 14:Fire, and is active in the work of CIB TG37: Performance-based Building Regulatory Systems and CIB TG50: Tall Buildings. He was appointed by ANSI as U.S representative to ISO TAG8, which advises the ISO Technical Management Board and provides oversight to all ISO Technical Committees working in the building and fire areas. He is a member of the National Fire Protection Association and a member of the Research Section, Building Fire Safety Systems Section, and Education Section, a Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the States of Illinois and Maryland. He is a prolific writer with over 140 publications to his credit.
In the NIST World Trade Center Response program Mr. Bukowski is leading the review of Codes and Standards applied to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the passive fire protection, and emergency access and evacuation systems of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2, and 7. He is also leading the investigation into the operation of the elevator systems in the buildings and the potential of elevators to be used for occupant egress and first responder access in the future. |
