W12
Test Your Knowledge: An Interactive Discussion of Fire Protection System ITM
William Koffel, Koffel Associates, Inc.
Lennon Peake, Koffel Associates, Inc

 

In this unique session, the content will be based on the level of knowledge of the participants. The presenters will ask questions of the audience to assess their knowledge of the requirements regarding the inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire protection systems. The participants' responses will be immediately displayed using a live polling system. Depending on the number of correct responses, the presenters will either discuss the question polled or move on to the next question.


Presented by:

William Koffel, Koffel Associates, Inc.
Bill Koffel is President of Koffel Associates, a fire protection and life safety engineering design and consulting firm, and is recognized as an expert in the fire protection and life safety aspects of codes and standards. Headquartered in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, the firm provides consulting; engineering design and construction administration; codes and standards development; seminar development and training; product testing and evaluation/representation; and litigation support to public and private clients worldwide. Bill remains active in the development process of the industry's governing codes, standards, and design guidelines, including ICC, NFPA, SFPE, and UL. He is a member of many NFPA technical committees, and is the Chair of both the NFPA Life Safety Correlating Committee and the technical committee responsible for NFPA 25. Bill is a former code official with the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office and a Past President of the SFPE.

Lennon Peake, Koffel Associates, Inc
Lennon Peake is a manager at Koffel Associates, Inc. a fire protection engineering and code consulting firm headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. Mr. Peake has a B.S. degree in both fire protection and mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland. Prior to working for Koffel Associates, Inc., he was employed at an architectural/engineering firm. Mr. Peake has coauthored several performance-based case studies for the SFPE International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods.