Florida Building
Commission
Fire Technical Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes
Meeting Location: Teleconference Meeting from Tallahassee,
Florida
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TAC/POC Members
and Objectives |
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TAC Members Present Via
Teleconference: Hamid
Bahadori, Chair; Joe Belcher; Charlie Frank;
Jeffery Gross;; Joe Holland, Brad Schiffer; James R. Schock; and Peter
T. Schwab. TAC Members not Present:
Tony Apfelbeck; Robert Hamberger; Staff Present: Mo
Madani, Jim Richmond, Ila Jones, Jim Hammers, April Hammonds, Marlita Peters,
Robert Benbow, Norman Bellamy Facilitator: Marlita
Peters Guests:
Kurtis Gurley, Presenter |
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Objectives: To
Approve the Agenda and Minutes of the August
1st, 2013 meeting. To review and accept report on project “Evaluate draft-stopping performance
within Type V combustible attic space.” |
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Meeting
Minutes |
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Objective |
Discussion of
objectives included the following: |
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1) |
10:30 AM
Welcome and Opening, Roll Call. A quorum was present. Marlita Peters,
facilitator for the Florida Building Commission, provided a welcome and a brief
overview of the agenda items to be presented. |
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2) |
Agenda and meeting Minutes for the August 1,
2013 Fire TAC meeting were approved unanimously by the committee members. |
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3) |
The TAC received for review an interim report
from Professor Kurtis Gurley of University of Florida with regard to the
research project they are conducting entitled “Evaluation draft-stopping
performance within type V combustible attic space.” Mr. Gurley provided a
presentation on the status of the research to date and indicated that TAC
member Tony Apfelbeck has been an advisory point of contact for the project
and that Mr. Steve Welsh of Koffel Associates has been selected as a
subcontractor for the project to perform a literature review of existing data
and field assessment of existing attic draft-stopping installation of Type V
building in Florida. After the discussion of the work done to date on the
project, the TAC voted to accept the report with Joe Holland opposing the
report and expressed reservations. |
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4) |
Public Comments: Jim Washington cited
2000 instance of a building suffering fire damage. Mr. Gurley requested further contact with
Mr. Washington to make sure the research received his information. |
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Other
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Adjourn: |
Staff
Contacts: Norman
Bellamy, Government Operations Consultant (850) 717-1834 Norman.Bellamy@myfloridalicense.com
or Mo Madani, Manager mo.madani@dbpr.state.fl.us (850) 717-1825