Meacham Associates

• Australian Building Codes Board (Australia, 2016-17) - consultation on use of risk to life as a basis for performance criteria in the National Construction Code. See base concepts in https://riskfrontiers.com/newsletter-volume-16-issue-2-december-2016/   
• Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (New Zealand, 2016) - review of the Fire Regulation Development Programme and review and input on various aspects of the building regulatory structure, including the alignment of structure and content within the New Zealand Building Code, its supporting documents, and the building regulatory environment.  
• Scottish Government, Building Standards Division (Scotland, 2016-18) -  establish a baseline of the fire engineering position in Scotland, identify areas of improvement for different actor groups,  identify the qualifications and competencies required for verification/review of fire engineering strategies and designs. See http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Built-Environment/Building/Building-standards/publications/pubresearch/researchfire and participate in international sub-group of review panel on building standards (fire safety) in Scotland. 
• World Bank, Building Regulation for Resilience (Washington, DC, 2016-2018) - participated in development of Building Regulatory Capacity Assessment https://www.gfdrr.org/building-regulation-for-resilience/knowledge and roadmap for implementation of BRCA.

Awarded an inaugural Fulbright Global Scholar award https://www.cies.org/fulbright-global-award-scholars Brian Meacham conducted research into the state of the building regulatory systems in Sweden, Spain and Japan. The aims of the research were to investigate the situation with performance-based building regulatory systems, with a particular focus on fire safety engineering within the systems. Reports on the situation in each country are forthcoming. A preliminary report on the situation in Sweden has been published https://www.boverket.se/sv/byggande/sakerhet/brandskydd/riskbaserade-byggregler/

• SP Fire Research (Trondheim, Norway). Contracted to review draft Nordic risk-based fire safety engineering standard. 
• Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc. (New York / Atlanta). Contracted to review the CFD modeling methodology report; prepare a review report summarizing findings arising from the review; provide technical support to PB with FHRR profile. 
• Studio di Architettura (Milan, Italy) and Novartis (East Hannover, NJ). Code consulting and fire engineering alternatives analysis for parking garage.
• Confidential Client. Security, Terrorism, Fire and Life Safety adviser for a design team which is developing the design for a super-tall building. Advise on issues of structural response to extreme events and strategies for fire and life safety in super-tall buildings (conducted as employee of previous employer).

Brian is Managing Principal at Meacham Associates. Over his 30+ year career, Brian has provided risk-informed performance-based solutions to complex building and infrastructure challenges, conducted building and fire regulatory system capacity assessments, and undertaken research in these and related areas. He has worked with and for governments, NGOs and the private sector in these areas in numerous countries. Throughout his career, he has authored more than 250 publications, given more than 250 presentations, and led more than $3M in research in these areas. His prior positions included Associate Professor in Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Principal at Arup, where he led the Risk Consulting practice in the USA and globally, Technical Director and Research Director at SFPE, fire safety engineer in the USA and Europe, and engineering manager at Gamewell Corporation. Brian is the 2018 President-Elect of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), Chair of the US TAG to ISO TC92 SC4 – Fire Safety Engineering, Chair of the NFPA Technical Committee on Fire Risk Assessment Methods, and Secretary of the IAFSS Management Committee. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Connecticut and Massachusetts, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers, a Fellow of SFPE, and a Fulbright Global Scholar.  

Throughout his career, Brian Meacham has authored more than 250 publications, ranging from peer-reviewed articles in technical journals, to textbooks, handbook chapter, conference papers and magazine articles, and has given more than 250 presentations, ranging from invited keynote presentations and accepted submissions at international conferences and symposia, to invited workshops, to lectures at universities, governments and industry groups. 

• Meacham, B.J. and van Straalen, I., “A Socio-Technical System Framework for Risk-Informed Performance-Based Building Regulation,” Building Research & Information, DOI 10.1080/09613218.2017.1299525, published on line 30 March 2017.
• Almejmaj, M., Skorinko, J. and Meacham, B.J., “The Effects of Cultural Differences between the US and Saudi Arabia on Emergency Evacuation – Analysis of Surveys on Fire Alarm Perception and Fire Safety Training,” Case Studies in Fire Safety, available on line 15 December 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csfs.2016.12.002. 
• Jutras, I. and Meacham, B.J., “Development of objective-criteria-scenario triplets and design fires for performance-based Fire Safety Design,” Journal of Building Engineering, available online 4 September 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2016.09.002. 
• Martin, D., Tomida, M. and Meacham, B.J., “Environmental Impact of Fire,” Fire Science Reviews, 5:5, DOI 10.1186/s40038-016-0014-1, published on-line 8 September 2016. 
• Meacham, B.J., “Towards a Risk-Informed Performance-Based Approach for Post-Earthquake Fire Protection Design of Buildings,” Proceedings 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium Fire Science & Technology, Fire Science and Technology 2015, IBSN978-981-10-0375-2, May 2016. 
• Meacham, B.J., “Sustainability and Resiliency Issues and Objectives in Performance Building Regulations,” Special Edition – Building Governance and Climate Change: Regulation and Related Polices, Building Research and Information, Volume 44, Issue 5-6, DOI:10.1080/09613218.2016.1142330, published on-line 9 March 2016. 

• “Situation with Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design in Seven Countries,” Invited Keynote Presentation, to be presented at the SFPE 12th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Honolulu, HI, April 2018.
• “Emerging Issues in FSE: Research Roadmap and the Path Forward,” Invited Keynote Presentation, to be presented at the 2nd SFPE Europe Conference on Fire Safety Engineering, Rotterdam, Netherlands, February 2018.
• “International Situation with Performance-Based Regulation for Fire and Fire Safety Engineering.” 6th Asia FORUM for Advanced Fire Education / Research in Asia, Tokyo University of Science / Agnes Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, 23 November 2017. 
• “Framework for Facilitating Next Generation Performance-Based Building Regulations” Fire Safety Asia Conference 2017, Singapore, 15-17 Nov. 2017. 
• “Fire Safety Design of Very Tall Buildings,” 5th Annual Workshop of the Group on Protection of Buildings from Fire, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 31 October 2017.
• “Fire Safety Engineering Resilience” 9th Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Seguridad contra Incendios: Diseno Basado en Prestaciones, Madrid, Spain, 23-25 October. 2017.
• “Fire Performance of a Full-Scale Loaded Cold-Formed Steel Framed Assembly in a Large Scale Furnace Test,” Fire Safety 2017, International Conference, Research and Advanced Technology in Fire, Santander, Spain, 20 Oct. 2017 (with Kamath, P. & Matsuyama, K., presented by Meacham).