The National Institute Of Standards And Technology (NIST)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), according to Robertson (2010) increased its participation in fire prevention when the Fire Research Act of 1968 was inacted by congress. The Building and Fire Research Labatory is broken into three categories and conducts research in fire science, fire engineering, and fire safety (Robertson, 2010).
According to the NIST (n.d) mission overview “The mission of the building and fire research programs at NIST is to anticipate and meet the measurement science, standards, and technology needs of the U.S. building and fire safety industries in areas of critical national need”. As a government agency the NIST has explicit legislative responsibility for fire prevention and control, earthquake