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Approximately 90 high-level government and private sector professionals attended the July 25-26, 2002, Workshop on Reducing the Vulnerability of Buildings to Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Attacks. The workshop, held at The American Institute of Architects headquarters building in Washington, D.C., was organized by NIBS and its Multihazard Mitigation Council in cooperation with the International Facility Management Association and with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. NIBS Chair Henry Green welcomed participants and MMC Chair Brent Woodworth chaired the workshop. The keynote address was presented by Major General Bruce M. Lawlor, Senior Director of the Protection and Prevention Directorate, Office of Homeland Security. Luncheon and dinner presentations were given by Jerome M. Hauer, MD, acting Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; D. A. Henderson, MD, MPH, Senior Science Advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Michael P. Pietrzak, MD, FACEP, Founder and Principal, Knowledge Management Solutions, and Project Director ER One. The purpose of the invitation-only event was to introduce and obtain pragmatic private sector input on the Office of Homeland Security sponsored publication, Guidance for Protecting Building Environments from Airborne Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Attacks,( NIOSH publication No. 2002-139). Workshop sessions provided an overview of the threat and of available mitigation guidance, facility assessment considerations, current facility management activities, and owner perspectives.  A workshop report is expected to be complete by late summer 2002.

Workshop Steering Committee
Workshop Agenda with speaker biographies
List of Workshop Participants

Some of the presentations given:
(Click on the name to view presentation in PDF format)

William K. Blewett, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
Barney Burroughs, Building Wellness Consultancy
Michael Chipley, UTD, Inc.
Tracy D. Cronin, CBRNC, DOD
Charles N. Claar, for Subodh Kumar, International Facilities Management Association  
Richard C. Cullerton, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
G. Scott Earnest, NIOSH
William Esposito, Ambient Group
Nicholas Fioavante, Consolidated Engineering Services
Edward Glickman, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust
Robert A. Kehlet, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Stuart Knoop, Oudens + Knoop, Architects 
Michael McLoughlin, JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Michael Pietrzak, ER One Project
Jack Riley, RAND Corporation
Linda Wiessler-Hughes, National Intelligence Council
James Woods, Building Diagnostics Research Institute
Kevin M. Upton, Marsh