Design for Tall Buildings in China: Past, Present, and Future Fire and Life Safety

Fang Li is a Research Scientist of Worcester Polytechnic institute (WPI) and a Fellow of Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). She is also the current board director of SFPE. She started the SFPE China Chapter in 2006 as its President, which has received over five awards from SFPE Headquarters during this period. She was one of the pioneers to advocate Performance Based Design (PBD) in China from United State and was awarded the Silver by Ministry of Security Science and Technology Division for the "Technical Guideline of Performance Based Design" as the team member. Fang Li holds the master degree of Fire Protection Engineering from WPI and has worked on a number of high profile projects throughout Asia, including the 520 meter Shanghai Center Project, Shanghai Disney Theme Park, the Beijing Universal Theme Park and the Shanghai 2010 Expo China Pavilion projects. Ms. Li has worked for RJA (now part of the Jensen Hughes) as the Senior Vice president. Prior joining RJA, she had worked for NFPA as the engineering intern. She is the first person introducing the performance-based design concept and method to China and established the fire protection consulting service in China, she is also the key player to convince the Macao Fire department to use the IBC for the Las Vegas based Venetian, MGH and Wynn developer for their large scale projects in Macao and introducing the third party service. She also developed the recognized third-party service for the international hotel brand throughout China. She is also the author or co-author of several books published by Springer including the large transportation fire protection system in China etc.

方莉是伍斯特理工學院（WPI）的研究科學家，也是消防工程師學會（SFPE）的會士。她目前擔任SFPE的董事會成員。她於2006年擔任SFPE中國分會的會長，並在此期間獲得了來自SFPE總部的五項以上獎項。她是從美國引入性能基礎設計（Performance Based Design, PBD）到中國的先驅之一，並作為團隊成員獲得了安全科技部頒發的銀獎，以表彰其「性能基礎設計技術指導方針」。方莉擁有伍斯特理工學院的消防工程碩士學位，並參與了多個亞洲高端項目，包括520米的上海中心項目、上海迪士尼主題公園、北京環球影城主題公園以及上海2010世博會中國館項目。李女士曾在RJA（現為Jensen Hughes的一部分）擔任高級副總裁。在加入RJA之前，她曾在NFPA擔任工程實習生。她是第一位將性能基礎設計概念和方法引入中國的人，並在中國建立了消防保護諮詢服務。她也是說服澳門消防局使用國際建築法典（IBC）為拉斯維加斯的威尼斯人、MGH和永利開發商在澳門的大型項目提供服務的關鍵人物，並引入了第三方服務。她還為中國的國際酒店品牌開發了公認的第三方服務。她也是幾本由Springer出版的書籍的作者或合著者，包括中國的大型交通消防保護系統等。