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Recent reports and publications of the Fire Safety Institute

Rasbash, D. J., G. Ramachandran, B. Kandola, J. M. Watts, Jr., and M. Law, Evaluation of Fire Safety, John Wiley, London, 2004.

Watts, John M., Jr. and Marilyn E. Kaplan, Fire Safe Building Rehabilitation, NFPA International, Quincy, MA, 2003. 

Watts, John M. Jr., “Fire Risk Indexing: A Systematic Approach to Building Code ‘Equivalency’ for Historic Buildings”, APT Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2003, pp. 23-28. 

Watts, John M., Jr., "Assessing Life Safety in Buildings", Section 13, Chapter 1, Fire Protection Handbook, 19th ed., Vol. II,  NFPA, Quincy MA, 2003, pp. 13-5 to 13-14.

Watts, John M., Jr., "Simplified Fire Risk Calculations", Section 3, Chapter 11, Fire Protection Handbook, 19th ed., Vol. I,  NFPA, Quincy MA, 2003, pp. 3-161 to 3-168.

Watts, John M., Jr., "Probabilistic Fire Models", Section 3, Chapter 6, Fire Protection Handbook, 19th ed.,Vol. I, NFPA, Quincy MA, 2003, pp. 3-97 to 3-104.

Watts, John M., Jr., "Fundamentals of Fire Safe Building Design", Section 2, Chapter 2, Fire Protection Handbook, 19th ed., Vol. I, NFPA, Quincy MA, 2003, pp. 2-37 to 2-49.

Watts, John M. Jr. and Robert E. Solomon, “Fire Safety Code for Historic Structures”,  Fire Technology, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2002, pp. 301-310.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Fire Risk Indexing”, Section 5, Chapter 10, SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, NFPA, Quincy MA, 2002.

Watts, John M., Jr. and Robert E. Chapman, “Engineering Economics”, Section 5, Chapter 7, SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, NFPA, Quincy MA, 2002.

Watts, John M., Jr. and John R. Hall, Jr., “Introduction to Fire Risk Assessment”, Section 5, Chapter 1, SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, NFPA, Quincy MA, 2002.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Fire Protection Performance Evaluation for Historic Buildings”, Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2001.

Watts, John M., Jr. and Eric R. Rosenbaum, “Fire Risk Assessment for Cultural Heritage”, Interflam2001 Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1, Interscience Communications, London, 2001, pp 203-212. 

Watts, John M., Jr., “Basic Methods of Quantitative Fire Risk Assessment”, Proceedings: Fire Risk & Hazard Assessment Symposium, Fire Protection Research Foundation, Quincy MA, 2001.

Watts, John M., Jr., and Marilyn E. Kaplan, “Fire Risk Index for Historic Buildings”, Fire Technology, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2001, pp. 165-178.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Performance-Based Fire Safety Codes for Heritage Buildings”, Proceedings: Third International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Lund, Sweden, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda MD, 2000, pp. 93-103. 

Kaplan, Marilyn E., and John M. Watts, Jr., “Draft Code for Historic Buildings”, Association for Preservation Technology International, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Natchitoches, LA, 2000.

Watts, John M. Jr. and Robert E. Solomon, “Code for Fire Protection in Historic Structures: NFPA 914 2001”, Proceedings: International Conference on Fire Protection of Cultural Heritage, K. Papaioannou, ed., Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2000, pp. 27-40.

Watts, John M., Jr., and Marilyn E. Kaplan, Fire Safety Codes and Heritage Preservation, NPS Training Manual, U.S. National Park Service, Washington DC, 2000.

Beller, D.K., and J.M. Watts, Jr., “Occupancy Classification for Performance-based Life Safety”, Fire and Materials, Vol. 23, 1999, pp. 281-289.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Y2K Performance-Based Life Safety Code”, Proceedings: Third International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda MD, 1999, pp. 146-151.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Risk Index for Emergency Egress”, Proceedings: Fire Risk & Hazard Assessment Research Application Symposium, Fire Protection Research Foundation, Quincy MA, 1999, pp. 113-124.

Kaplan, Marilyn E., and John M. Watts, Jr., “Development of a Prototypical Historic Building Fire Risk Index to Evaluate Fire Safety in Historic Buildings”, APT Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 2-3, 1999, pp. 49-54.

Watts, John M., Jr., “The Role of ASTM Standards in NFPA Performance-Based Codes”, ASTM’s Role in Performance-Based Fire Codes and Standards, ASTM STP 1377, J.R. Hall, Jr., Ed., American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken PA, 1999, pp. 105-114.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Index Approach to Quantifying Fire Risk”, Proceedings: SFPE Symposium on Risk, Uncertainty, and Reliability in Fire Protection Engineering, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda MD, 1999, pp. 39-45.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Rehabilitating Existing Buildings”, Fire Protection Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1999, pp. 6-8, 10, 12, 14-15.

Beller, D.K., and Watts, J.M., “Human Behaviour Approach to Occupancy Classification”, Human Behaviour in Fire, Proceedings of the First International Symposium, University of Ulster, 1998, pp. 83-103.

Watts, John M, Jr., “Fire Risk Evaluation in the Codes: A Comparative Analysis”, Proceedings: Second International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda MD, 1998, pp. 226-237.

Parks, Lyman L., Brian D. Kushler, Michael J. Serapiglia, Lawrence A. McKenna, Jr., Edward K. Budnick, and John M. Watts, Jr., “Fire Risk Assessment for Telecommunications Central Offices”, Fire Technology, Vol. 34, No. 2, 1998, pp. 156-176. 

Watts, John M., Jr., and Marilyn E. Kaplan, “Development of a Prototypical Historic Fire Risk Index to Evaluate Fire Safety in Historic Buildings”, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Natchitoches, LA, 1998.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Analysis of the NFPA Fire Safety Evaluation System for Business Occupancies”, Fire Technology, Vol. 33, No., 3, 1997, pp. 276-282.

Watts, John M., Jr., and Marilyn E. Kaplan, “Development of an Historic Fire Risk Index”, Proceedings: Fire Risk & Hazard Assessment Research Application Symposium, Fire Protection Research Foundation, Quincy MA, 1997, pp. 315-327.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Communicating Fire Suppression and Detection Research to Users”, Proceedings: Fire Suppression and Detection Symposium, Fire Protection Research Foundation, Quincy MA, 1997, pp. 221-233.

Budnick, Edward K., Lawrence A. McKenna, Jr., and John M. Watts, Jr., “Quantifying Fire Risk for Telecommunications Network Integrity”, Fire Safety Science, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium, International Association of Fire Safety Science, 1997, pp. 691-700.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Fire Risk Assessment Using Multiattribute Evaluation”, Fire Safety Science, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium, International Association of Fire Safety Science, 1997, pp. 679-690.

Watts, John M., Jr., and Marilyn E. Kaplan, “Performance-Based Approach to Protecting Our Heritage”, Proceedings: International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Boston, 1997, pp. 339-347.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Performance-Based Life Safety Code”, Proceedings: International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Boston, 1997, pp. 159-169.

Watts, John M., Jr., "Angle of Exit Remoteness", Fire Technology, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1996, pp. 76-82.

Watts, John M., Jr., “Fire Risk Assessment in Cultural Resource Facilities”, Proceedings: Fire Risk & Hazard Assessment Symposium, Fire Protection Research Foundation, Quincy MA, 1996, pp. 508-522.