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Mr. Harper is a degreed fire protection engineer from the University of Maryland. He has been a licensed professional engineer for 30+ years and has worked with JENSEN HUGHES, Inc. for 32+ years, working as a firefighter paramedic for 10 years prior to that. Jeff is currently a technical fellow and senior consultanting engineer located in Chicago.

Jeff has worked on many projects developing fire and life safety programs, evaluating code compliance and developing equivalent approaches. He's helped develop both Editions of the SFPE Guide to Fire Protection in Very Tall Buildings. He is Immediate Past Chairman on the Chicago Committee for High Rise Buildings (CCHRB) and participates on the Steel/Timber Research Group for the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). His tall building experience includes Burj Khalifa and Kingdom Tower, among others.

Jeff has worked on loss investigations and failure analyses. He has been involved in the design, testing and commissioning of fire protection systems to include suppression systems, fire detection and alarm, smoke control and passive fire and smoke containment systems. He has provided fire protection and building code consultation on a number of large, complex projects, assisting design teams with developing code compliance and, when necessary, equivalency solutions using performance-based design concepts that meet the intent of the building codes. Mr. Harper participates in code development technical committees at the national level and was a Fire/Life Safety Group co-chair for the recently completed CBC Code Update effort.

Mr. Harper is a degreed fire protection engineer from the University of Maryland. He has been a licensed professional engineer for 30+ years and has worked with JENSEN HUGHES, Inc. for 32+ years, working as a firefighter paramedic for 10 years prior to that. Jeff is currently a technical fellow and senior consultanting engineer located in Chicago.

Jeff has worked on many projects developing fire and life safety programs, evaluating code compliance and developing equivalent approaches. He's helped develop both Editions of the SFPE Guide to Fire Protection in Very Tall Buildings. He is Immediate Past Chairman on the Chicago Committee for High Rise Buildings (CCHRB) and participates on the Steel/Timber Research Group for the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). His tall building experience includes Burj Khalifa and Kingdom Tower, among others.

Jeff has worked on loss…

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