Koffel’s fire protection engineering professionals currently serve—or previously served—in committee roles for codes and standards development with industry entities including:

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
  • E-5 Fire Standards
International Code Council (ICC)
  • Means of Egress Code Development (IEBC, IBC, IFC)
  • Existing Building Code Development (IEBC)
  • Code Technology Committee (CTC)
Maryland State Fire Prevention Commission
  • Commissioner, appointed by Maryland’s governor
  • Vice Chair
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

NFPA Technical Correlating Committees
  • NFPA 13: Automatic Sprinkler System
  • NFPA 99: Standard for Health Care Facilities
  • NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code®, Chair
  • NFPA 5000®: Building Construction and Safety Code®
NFPA Technical Committees
  • NFPA 1: Fire Code
  • NFPA 13: Sprinkler System Discharge Criteria
  • NFPA 72: Household Warning Systems
  • NFPA 80: Fire Doors and Windows
  • NFPA 82: Incinerators and Waste and Linen Handling Systems and Equipment, Former Chair
  • NFPA 92 (92A, 92B), 204: Smoke Management Systems Committee
  • NFPA 99: Standards for Health Care Facilities
    • Health Care Emergency Management and Security
    • Fundamentals
  • NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code®
    • NFPA 101A: Alternative Approaches to Life Safety (FSES), Former Chair
    • Board and Care Facilities, Former Chair
    • Detention & Correctional Occupancies
    • Fire Protection Features
    • Fundamentals
    • Furnishings and Contents
    • Health Care Occupancies
    • Industrial, Storage, and Miscellaneous Occupancies
    • Means of Egress, Chair and Former Chair
    • Residential Occupancies, Former Chair
    • Business and Mercantile Occupancies
  • NFPA 115: Laser Fire Protection, Chair
  • NFPA 150: Animal Housing Facilities
  • NFPA 214: Water Cooling Towers
  • NFPA 251 through 290: Fire Tests
  • NFPA 555, 556, 557: Hazard and Risk of Contents and Furnishings
  • NFPA 1122, 1123, 1124, 1125: Pyrotechnics Committee, Former Chair
  • NFPA 1137: Fire Marshal Professional Qualifications
  • NFPA 5000®: Building Construction and Safety Code®
    • Board and Care Facilities, Former Chair
    • Detention & Correctional Occupancies
    • Fire Protection Features
    • Fundamentals
    • Furnishings and Contents
    • Health Care Occupancies
    • Industrial, Storage, and Miscellaneous Occupancies
    • Means of Egress, Chair and Former Chair
    • Residential Occupancies, Former Chair
    • Business and Mercantile Occupancies

    • NFPA Research Foundation
    • Project Technical Panel (PTP) "Fire Pump Field Data Collection and Analysis" Study
    • Project Technical Panel (PTP) "Stair Descent Device Performance for Firefighters"

      Koffel's fire protection engineering professionals also work with, attend and appear before the International Code Council Evaluation Services (ICC-ES) Committee, the United States' leader in evaluating building products for compliance with code.

Underwritters Laboratory
  • UL 1821 STP Thermoplastic Sprinkler Pipe and Fittings for Fire Protection Service
  • UL 1994 STP The Standard for Safety of Low Level Path Marking and Lighting Systems