Engineering & Standards Committee

Roland is a NICET Level III Fire Protection Engineering Technician. He serves on numerous technical committees for both NFPA (including NFPA 13 Correlating and Installation Criteria, NFPA 13R/13D Residential Committee, NFPA 24 Private fire service mains and NFPA 22, Water tanks for fire protection) and AWWA Committees and is the former chair of the AWWA Fire Protection Committee. Roland has been involved in the layout and installation of thousands of fire sprinkler systems ranging from single-family homes to large commercial projects and is experienced in the varied steps needed to successfully bring a fire sprinkler system from the design phase to completion.

Jeffrey M. Hugo, CBO, is the Vice President of Codes, Standards, Public Fire Protection, Learning and Development for the National Fire Sprinkler Association (NFSA). His departments represent the mission of the NFSA, “To protect lives and property from fire through the wide-spread acceptance of the fire sprinkler concept” with the development and update of model codes, installation and maintenance standards, training, and education. Jeff has been with the NFSA since 2005 and serves on several NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) technical and ICC (International Code Council) committees. Jeff contributes to research, informal interpretations of codes, exam development, training, and regularly contributes building code related articles to publications such as NFSM (National Fire Sprinkler Magazine), Fire Protection Contractor and other industry newsletters. Jeff resides in Michigan; he is a Michigan registered Building Official, Building Inspector, and Plan Reviewer since 1995.