Brian Meacham
Research Associate Professor

The George Perkins Marsh Institute
Director, Center for Risk and Security
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508.751.4609 phone
email: bmeacham@clarku.edu

Current Research Interests

• Multi-hazard threat, risk and vulnerability assessment and mitigation approaches for buildings and critical infrastructure.
  
• Decision-making for trade-offs associated with security decisions.
  
• Risk-informed performance-based building and fire regulations and design methods.
  
• Uncertainty and variability in evacuation models.

Selected Publications

Meacham, B.J., ed. 2006. Extreme event mitigation in buildings: Analysis and design. April. Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association.

Meacham, B.J. 2006. Threat, risk and vulnerability assessment, Chapter 6, Extreme event mitigation in buildings: Analysis and design, ed. B.J. Meacham, April. Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association.

Lord, J. B.J. Meacham, A. Moore, R. Fahy, and G. Proulx. 2005. Guide for evaluating the predictive capability of computer egress models, NIST GCR 06-886. December. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building and Fire Research Laboratory.

Meacham, B.J., A. Moore, R. Bowen, and J. Traw. 2005. Performance-based building regulation: Current situation and future needs. Building Research and Information 33 no. 1: 91-106.

Meacham, B.J. 2004. Challenges in decision-making for fire risk problems. Journal of Fire Protection Engineering 14 no. 2: 149-168.

Meacham, B.J., ed. 2004. Global policy summit on the role of performance-based building regulations in addressing societal expectations, international policy, and local needs: Summit report. Washington, DC: National Research Council, and Canberra, Australia: Inter-jurisdictional Regulatory Collaboration Committee, February.

Meacham, B.J., ed. 2004. Performance-based building design concepts. Falls Church, VA: International Code Council. July.

Meacham, B.J. 2004. Understanding risk: Quantification, perception and characterization. Journal of Fire Protection Engineering 14 no. 3: 199-228.

National Research Council. 2003. ISC security design criteria for new federal office buildings and major modernization projects: A review and commentary. Committee Report, Committee for the Review of the Interagency Security Committee Security Criteria, (Committee member and contributing author), Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Meacham. B.J. 2002. Building fire risk analysis. SFPE handbook of fire protection engineering, 3rd edition, 5-153 - 5-175. Quincy, MA: NFPA and SFPE.