John Clampett
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John has over 40 years of senior executive experience and technical leadership in the testing, certification, fire and building industry. He has a unique background starting as a professional firefighter with the Melbourne Fire Brigade, building surveying and senior roles with the Australian Building Codes Board, Building Research Association of New Zealand, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation and Norman Disney and Young. These roles have taken him through building code reform, fire research, emergency management planning, product testing, product certification/accreditation, change management, international building code development, investigation and assessment, fire safety engineering consulting, risk engineering and business development in Australia and internationally.

New technology through innovation and its hurdles

Innovative Technology in the building construction industry presents new fire-protection challenges. It poses the question if those of us in the building fire protection industry are doing enough to develop innovative solutions to these challenges. But there are hurdles to…