What are Your Research Needs?

We are in the process of gathering research ideas submitted by you or others who have a fire protection or life safety research need. Research requests are not required to be tied to a specific code or standard and there is no project too small or too large for us to handle.While some projects aim to compile available data on a particular topic, others can address two opposing views on an issue or provide information for committees to discuss around an emerging technical issue.To give you a better idea, recently published Research Fund projects include: Carbon Monoxide Incidents: A Review of the Data Landscape Evaluating Data and Voice Signals in Pathway Survivable Cables for Life Safety Systems Fires in Animal Housing FacilitiesA complete list of previous projects can be found on the NFPA Research Fund website.The submission deadline (for consideration of 2023 projects) is January 16, 2023. To submit a proposed research project, please formulate your research idea using this project idea form and submit it via our online project idea submission portal. Note, you will need to sign into your NFPA account or create a free profile to access this portal. The project idea form and other information about the Research Fund can be found at www.nfpa.org/nfparesearchfund. The criteria for selection will include consistency with the Foundation operating principles and vetting criteria, relevance to mission, anticipated cost/benefit, no other obvious funders, sense of urgency, and the potential for the project to be a starting point for a larger constituency funded effort. If you have questions or have an idea and you are not sure where to begin, please feel free to contact us.  The NFPA Research Fund was established in 2006 and is supported each year by a generous financial contribution from NFPA. The purpose of the Research Fund is to stimulate and provide a mechanism for facilitating research to support the work of NFPA Technical Committees.