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Prof. Kathleen A. Dunne, P.E., R.A. is a full professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn, NY and Coordinator of the Technology Curriculum. She teaches in the Structures sequence as well as the Materials and Methodologies of Construction sequence. Prof. Dunne is a licensed Professional Engineer and Registered Architect with over 25 years of experience as a consulting structural engineer. She is a partner in Dunne & Markis Consulting Structural Engineers in Riverdale, NY. Her firm specializes in consulting to architects on small to medium size projects including commercial, educational, institutional and residential projects. The firm has participated in restoration work on many landmark structures.

Jake Pauls, CPE. Beginning with 20 years at the National Research Council of Canada, and now having 35 years of experience in research, codes/standards development, public health advocacy and consulting, Jake Pauls currently serves on several national committees in the USA involved with standards and model codes for building and design. For seven committees he represents the American Public Health Association. Educated in architecture and certified in ergonomics, he is well known for bridging among ergonomics, public health and development of codes and standards for building use and safety. A focus for much of this work is stairway safety and usability including stairway use in major evacuations such as with the World Trade Center for which he co-directs an international initiative on evacuation research.

Andrew C. Casper, Chief of Department, San Francisco Fire Department (Ret.) has over 30 years of professional experience in the fields of Firefighting and Emergency Management and Building Evacuation Procedures for high-rise buildings. In addition to the S.F.F.D., he has held positions with FEMA as Division Director at the Emergency Management Institute, and as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Fire Safety in Washington, D.C. He has conducted Management studies of fire departments throughout the U.S. and in Australia, and has investigated major disasters for the U.S. Fire Administration. He has trained over 1,000 high rise building Fire Safety Directors for certification. He is currently a private consultant in High Rise Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness and is the author of numerous articles on fire safety, evacuation procedures and related topics.

Prof. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, Ph.D., P.E. is a licensed Professional Engineer and is a Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He has more than 36 years of experience in structural design and construction primarily on buildings and bridges. His main areas of research, teaching and consulting are structural engineering of steel and composite structures and protection of buildings against natural hazards (earthquakes) and terrorist attacks (blasts). In 1998, he was awarded the T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award of the American Institute of Steel Construction, one of the highest honors in his field. He has more than 180 publications on structural engineering, earthquake engineering and blast-resistant design of buildings and bridges. In the aftermath of the 9/11 WTC tragedy, funded by the National Science Foundation, he conducted a field investigation and analysis of the collapsed towers. In 2002, he testified before the Committee on Science of The House of Representatives on his research on WTC.

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