William E. Koffel PE, FSFPE, SASHE

Bill Koffel, PE, FSFPE, is president of Koffel Associates, a fire protection and life safety engineering design and consulting firm, and he is recognized as an expert in the fire protection and life safety aspects of codes and standards. Koffel Associates, headquartered in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, provides consulting, engineering design and construction administration, codes and standards development, seminar development and training, product testing and evaluation/representation, and litigation support to public and private clients worldwide. Bill remains active in the development process of the field’s governing codes, standards and design guidelines including the International Code Council (ICC), NFPA, Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) and Underwriters Laboratory (UL). As a former code official with the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office, he has conducted licensure, certification, and accreditation surveys of various health care facilities. Bill serves on numerous NFPA technical committees, including the Life Safety Technical Committee on Health Care Occupancies, and serves as the chair of the Life Safety Technical Correlating Committee.