Daniel J. O’Connor

Aon | Chicago, United States

About

Mr. Daniel J. O’Connor P.E. is the Chief Technical Officer of Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation (Aon FPE) and received his B.S. degree in Fire Protection Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1979 and his M.S. Degree in Fire Protection Engineering from the [ul=http://www.umd.edu/]University of Maryland[/url] in 1992.

In 2004 Mr. O’Connor was elected to the grade of Fellow in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Mr. O’Connor is the Chair of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers Task Group on Human Behavior. Mr. O’Connor is a member of five NFPA Technical Committees that include NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm & Signaling Code, and is the immediate past Chair of the NFPA 101 Technical Committee on Healthcare Occupancies.

He has been involved in numerous tall building projects during his career including the Trump Tower in Chicago, the proposed 610…

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Daniel J. O’Connor

CTBUH Roles

Annual Conference, Presenter (Shanghai 2012)

Working Group: Fire & Safety, Co-Chair (2009 – 2014)

Annual Conference, Session Chair (Shanghai 2014)

International Research Seed Funding, Peer Review Panel (2014)

Videos

21 September 2012

Track 19: Internal Safety & Comfort Q & A

Track 19 panelists including: Fang Li & Martin Reiss, Rolf Jensen & Associates (RJA); Matthew Herman, Buro Happold; and Daniel O'Connor, Aon Fire Protection Engineering...

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Research

16 September 2014

Tall and Supertall Atria for Sustainable Buildings

Ervin Cui, Alberto Alvarez-Rodriguez, Kim Clawson & Dan O’Connor, AON

The continual increasing height of supertall buildings is being accompanied by interior sky gardens interspersed throughout the heights of the buildings. Increased urban density and...

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Research

19 September 2012

Considerations and Challenges for Refuge Areas in Tall Buildings

Daniel Connor & Ervin Cui, Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation; Kim Clawson, Clawson Consultants Ltd.

Within the last two decades, concentrating all or many occupants of many floors of a tall building onto refuge floors during an emergency has become...

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16 September 2014

Fire & Life Safety Workshop, Shanghai 2014

The Fire & Life Safety Working Group hosted a productive technical workshop at the 2014 Shanghai Conference joined by CTBUH Advisory Board member Simon Lay. Among the top concerns raised by the audience discussion was the issue of fire safety for social housing environments.  .

8 November 2012

Event Focuses on Combining Fire Safety and Sustainability

The CTBUH participated in a symposium to address the complex issues of integrating fire safety design with sustainability.

18 September 2012

Fire & Safety Workshop, Shanghai

The Fire & Safety Working Group met in Shanghai to discuss progress on several on-going initiatives and recent studies.

22 October 2010

CTBUH 2010 Annual Leaders Meeting

Following the CTBUH 9th Annual Awards Dinner & Ceremony, the CTBUH Leadership team met again bright and early on the campus of the IIT in Chicago for their annual Leaders Meeting.

21 October 2009

CTBUH 2009 Annual Leaders Meeting

Preceding the CTBUH 2009 Chicago Conference, 55 leaders within the CTBUH organization gathered to discuss current developments, progress on projects, and new ideas and initiatives.

19 May 2009

Inaugural Fire & Safety Meeting

The CTBUH’s Fire & Safety Working Group convened for a one and a half day meeting at the offices of Schirmer Engineering on 18th-19th May.

21 September 2012

Track 19: Internal Safety & Comfort Q & A

Track 19 panelists including: Fang Li & Martin Reiss, Rolf Jensen & Associates (RJA); Matthew Herman, Buro Happold; and Daniel O'Connor, Aon Fire Protection Engineering...

21 September 2012

Considerations and Challenges for Refuge Areas in Tall Buildings

Within the last two decades, concentrating all or many occupants from many floors of a tall building onto refuge floors during an emergency has become...

11 October 2011

Considerations and Challenges for Refuge Areas in Tall Buildings

This presentation reviews the work of the CTBUH Fire Safety Working Group regarding the applications of various types of refuge areas used in buildings. The...

11 October 2011

Seoul Conference 2011 Track Session 19: Q&A

Question & Answers session for Track Session 19.

05 March 2008

Track 17 Panel Questions and Answers

The panel of Track 17, Robert Solomon, Richard Bukowski, Simon Lay, and Daniel O'Connor took questions from the CTBUH 8th World Congress audience.

05 March 2008

Building Façade or Fire Safety Façade?

Daniel O'Connor, of Schirmer Engineering, presented the mechanisms of fire spread at the façade and the recognized fire safety considerations at the CTBUH 8th World...

16 September 2014

Tall and Supertall Atria for Sustainable Buildings

Ervin Cui, Alberto Alvarez-Rodriguez, Kim Clawson & Dan O’Connor, AON

The continual increasing height of supertall buildings is being accompanied by interior sky gardens interspersed throughout the heights of the buildings. Increased urban density and...

19 September 2012

Considerations and Challenges for Refuge Areas in Tall Buildings

Daniel Connor & Ervin Cui, Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation; Kim Clawson, Clawson Consultants Ltd.

Within the last two decades, concentrating all or many occupants of many floors of a tall building onto refuge floors during an emergency has become...

10 October 2011

Considerations and Challenges for Refuge Areas in Tall Buildings

Kim Clawson, Clawson Consultants; Daniel J. O’Connor, Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation

This paper will review the work to-date of the CTBUH Fire Safety Working Group regarding the history, use and applications of various types of refuge...

01 May 2008

Building Façade or Fire Safety Façade?

Daniel J. O’Connor P.E., Schirmer Engineering Corporation

This paper discusses the code provisions and current test standards applicable to perimeter fire barrier systems, which may jeopardize architects’ creative designs in the near...