MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Graybar Hosts In-Building Public Safety Seminar

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Graybar – In-Building Public Safety Communications Seminar

Safer Buildings Coalition and our Executive Director Alan Perdue, CFO, FM, MIFireE are proud to support Graybar in next week’s seminar in Naperville: DAS/Public Safety Seminar on Friday, April 28. This seminar will be of interest to Public Safety Agencies (Fire, Police, EMT), Building Officials, Architects, Engineers, and Design Professionals. The meeting will be held at Top Golf located at 3211 Odyssey Ct., Naperville. The program will begin at 8:30 am.

The program is on In-Building Public Safety Communications, and will be Chief Alan Perdue, Executive Director-Safer Buildings Coalition. This seminar will be of interest to anyone who is concerned about radios and phones getting out of larger buildings in an emergency, so invite your police agencies.

The agenda for this morning class will consist of Code Requirements for Public Safety Radio Communications; General Public Communication vs. Public Safety Communication Systems; Prescriptive Code vs. Performance Based Code; New Code Changes; Basic System Topology/Design; Developing Specifications and System Layout; System Commissioning and Testing Best Practices

This seminar will be of interest to Public Safety Agencies (Fire, Police, EMT), Building Officials, Architects, Engineers, and Design Professionals

Our instructor, Chief Alan Perdue, began his public safety journey as a volunteer firefighter in 1977 and retired in February 2013. Chief Perdue is credentialed as a Chief Fire Officer and Fire Marshal through the Center for Public Safety Excellence Commission for Professional Credentialing.

Chief Perdue currently serves as the Executive Director of the Safer Buildings Coalition, a Commissioner on the Center for Public Safety Excellence’s Commission for Professional Credentialing, a member of the International Accreditation Services Technical Advisory Committee for Fire & Life Safety Departments, a member of the International Code Councils Codes & Standards Council and as an Elected Guilford County, NC Commissioner.

Among many other positions held by Chief Perdue, he served eight years as the International Director representing Fire & Life Safety on the International Association of Fire Chiefs Board of Directors and twelve years as the Governor’s fire service appointee to the North Carolina State Building Code Council.

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