ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The NARRP was produced by a project team led by the NAHB Research Center, Inc. and funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. Principal authors of the NARRP were David B. Hattis of Building Technology Inc., William E. Koffel of Koffel Associates, Inc., and Melvyn Green of Melvyn Green & Associates, Inc. William M. Connolly of the State of New Jersey served as a special consultant to the project. The NAHB Research Center project manager was David J. Dacquisto, and the HUD Government Technical Monitor was William Freeborne.

The project team also benefitted greatly from extensive input and assistance provided by a Project Advisory Committee. Grateful acknowledgement is extended to the following individuals who participated on that committee:

Andy Anderson, Anderson Construction Services, Inc., Summerville SC
Paul D. Armstrong, International Council of Building Officials
Bill Asdal, William Asdal and Company Builders, LLC, Chester NJ
Peter H. Billing, Insurance Institute for Property Loss Reduction, Boston MA
Thomas R. Brace, State Fire Marshall, St. Paul MN
Mari Côté, National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards
William Duncan, The Enterprise Foundation, Columbia MD
Joseph M. Fleming, Boston Fire Department, Boston MA
Rocco Gabriele, Maryland State Fire Marshall, Towson MD
David A. Gecks, Department of Buildings and Inspections, Cincinnati OH
Edye Graves, City of Charleston SC
Greg Harrington, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy MA
Gary Higbee, Department of State Codes, Albany NY
Barry A. Johnson, Southern Building Code Congress International
John Leith-Tetrault, Office of Financial Services and Community Partners Program
David Listokin, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University
Peter A. Lopez, City of San Diego CA
Lawrence G. Perry, Building Owners and Managers Association
Kenneth M. Schoonover, Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc.
Robert Solomon, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy MA
Mike Turner, TLC Builders, Roswell GA
Joel Zingeser, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD

Appreciation is also extended to the International Conference of Building Officials for permission to reprint Appendix Chapter 1 from the 1994 edition of the Uniform Code for Building Conservation as Appendix 1 of this document, and to the Building Administrators and Code Officials International, Inc., for permission to reprint Section 3408 from the 1996 edition of the BOCA National Building Code as Appendix 2 of this document.