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Under solicitation number SB 1341-03-Q-Q0084, a firm fixed-price purchase
order has been awarded to Mr. Harold Nelson:
Mr. Harold E. Nelson, formerly a Senior Research Engineer with Hughes Associates,
Inc. A graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology, Mr. Nelson has more
than 50 years of fire protection engineering expertise, specializing in
risk and hazard analysis. He was lead fire protection engineer for the U.S.
General Services Administration, and led the team developing new technology
for fire safety engineering at the National Bureau of Standards. Mr. Nelson
was a participant in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's BPAT study
of the World Trade Center disaster.
Mr. Nelson is uniquely qualified to provide the required fire safety engineering
expertise for this project. Mr. Nelson’s qualifications are listed
below.
Mr.Nelson has a proven ability in fire investigations, including multi-floor
fires in high rise buildings with experience in such buildings as One Meridien
Plaza Bank.
Mr. Nelson participated in the FEMA BPAT study of the Trade Center disaster.
Mr. Nelson has over 50 years of fire protection engineering expertise,
specializing in risk and hazard analysis.
Mr. Nelson has demonstrated experience in the development of practical
fire safety for high-rise buildings.
Mr. Nelson has specialized experience in human behavior in fires, including
egress and fire safety for handicapped persons.
Mr. Nelson has demonstrated knowledge and experience in the building
design, construction, operations and maintenance, and inspection procedures,
with particular emphasis in egress. He also has demonstrated knowledge and
experience with U.S. building and fire codes, standards, and regulatory
system.
The specific tasks to be performed by The Contractor and the specific
methodologies to be used include:
Identification of sources of information about the interiors of the three
buildings (WTC 1, 2, and 7), the types of fuels present, and the compartmentation.
Providing insights into the analyses developed during the FEMA World
Trade Center Building Performance Study.
Assistance in formulating hypotheses regarding the dynamics of the fires
in the interiors of the buildings;
Assistance in identifying key aspects of egress and human behavior during
the fires;
Guidance in conceptualizing the floor-to-floor and cross-floor fire spread,
and documenting renditions of the concepts.
Contributing to the selection of pre-fire conditions for modeling the
thermal environment using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) and documenting
bases for his positions.
Participation in understanding the relationships between the model predictions
and the accumulated photographic evidence and renditions of insights developed.
Assistance in the design of physical and computational tests to document
the accuracy of the modeling predictions.
Providing documentation of his contributions, which will serve as input
to the Final Report.
Providing a non-binding technical review of the Project 5 report. We
don't have dates on any of the other tasks. Contractor deliverables may
include summaries of the tasks. The Contractor will not generate conclusions
of the Investigation. Contractor deliverables may include summaries of the
tasks.
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