Jason Webb of the National Fire Sprinkler Association will be speaking on 2017 updates to NFPA 25. He's a great reference and local expert on Inspection, Testing and Maintenance and we're happy to have him join us on Monday, September 12th at Cinzetti's in Overland Park. You can pay and RSVP online on our Calendar page.
We want to thank the many participants and speakers for this week's 2016 Technical Seminar held on Tuesday. The event supported 12 different presentations on a wide range of topics and raised $2,525 towards local fire protection scholarships for students.
The sessions included: Risk Management in Critical Manufacturing Facilities by Ron Stein of AON Risk Solutions Understanding Commissioning and System Acceptance Testing by Jack Poole of Poole Fire Protection Common Installation Challenges for Firestopping by Mark Chrisman of Henderson Engineers Challenges & Opportunities of Flexible Sprinkler Armovers by Jordan Van Loon of Victaulic Fire & Life Safety Challenges in College and University Labs by Jeff Schumacher, Rocky Edwards, and Andy Thul of Cosentini Associates Significant Changes in the 2016 Edition of NFPA 13 by Christopher Culp of Henderson Engineers Challenges & Applications of Low Pressure CO2 Systems by Mark Harris and Courtney Santmire of Tyco Environmental & Health Considerations in Clean Agent Technology by Luis F. Gonzalez of 3M Challenges & Applications for Large Dry Chemical Systems by Mark Harris and Courtney Santmire of Tyco Understanding Survivability by Jack Poole of Poole Fire Protection Incident Management System Intelligibility and Feasibility by Morris Stoops of Edwards Technology Code & Industry: Fire alarm Monitoring Trends & Technology by Paul Bridges of Notifier We are very thankful to the participants, speakers, our platinum sponsors American Fire Sprinkler, Ferguson Fire & Fabrication, George Butler & Associates, Henderson Engineers, Victaulic, and our host Henderson Engineers. The feedback we have received thus far has been positive and we hope that it was a worthwhile event for those who attended. For those who requested PDH certificates, please monitor your email for further details. Thank you again for your help in making this a very successful event! We look forward to starting up chapter meetings again in the fall. Have comments? Feel free to post below. We are very excited to be bringing back the 2016 full day technical seminar on May 3, 2016. The lineup includes:
+ Risk management in Critical Manufacturing Facilities, by Ron Stein of Aon Risk Solutions + Challenges and Opportunities of Flexible Sprinkler Armovers, by Jordan Van Loon of Victaulic + Common Installation Challenges for Firestopping, by Mark Chrisman of Henderson Engineers + Challenges and Opportunities with Height and Slope of Pipe Routing, by Chris Culp of Henderson Engineers + Fire & Life Safety Challenges Encountered in College and University Laboratories, by Jeff Schumacher of Cosentini + Challenges and Applications of Low Pressure CO2 Systems, by Mark Harris of Tyco + Environmental and Health Considerations in Clean Agent Technology, by Luis F. Gonzales of 3M + Challenges and Applications for Large Dry Chemical Sytems, by Mark Harris of Tyco + Code & Industry: Available Fire Alarm Monitoring Trends and Technologies, by Paul Bridges of Notifier + Catered Breakfast & Lunch Registration can be completed online: http://www.mokansfpe.org/seminar.html Register before Friday, April 22nd for early registration. See you May 3rd! Just a brief reminder that we will not have a monthly meeting in April, but we are excited about the full day technical seminar on May 3, 2016. You can see the latest lineup (9 different sessions) of speakers and presentations as well as register all on our Seminar page.
March Chapter Meeting
Reminder to RSVP for "It's not a Fire Wall", a presentation by Mark Chrisman of Fire Dynamics. The presentation will begin at noon on Monday, March 7th at Cinzetti's in Overland Park. All the details can be found on our Calendar page. Job Postings We have new job postings all the time. You can see the latest posting from this month on our Jobs page. Chapter Membership March is the last month for discounted membership! Join the local chapter for only $15 through the end of this month on our Join page. Thanks to a good handful of interest we have already gathered a day long lineup of speakers for our Technical Seminar on May 3rd. Are you interested in presenting? We are looking to gather about a dozen more presentations for the Seminar. Please reach out to us at info@mokansfpe.org or Joe Meyer at joe.meyer@hei-eng.com for more information.
You can register for the event on our Seminar page and see all of the speakers and topics who are already presenting. We look forward to a great seminar this year. |
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