James Ierardi Consulting Services

PLEASE NOTE: As of September 2003 I will be consulting for R.W. Sullivan, Inc. in Boston, MA as a Fire Protection Engineer. Please refer all new cases through R.W. Sullivan.

Working for Prof. Jonathan Barnett since 1997 in various legal matters involving fire growth and flame spread. Responsibilities include reading depositions and reviewing other evidence for the purpose of designing small-scale experiements and/or scenarios to evaluate with computer fire models.

Representative Projects

• WTC investigation for both ASCE/FEMA and insurance industry
• 3-day short course on using the CFAST zone fire model
• 1-day seminar on using Fire Dynamic Simulator
• Numerical simulation and demonstrative laboratory experiments for civil and criminal litigation involving fire growth and development
• Peer-review of performance-based design