The Fire Protection Research Foundation, an affiliate of the National Fire Protection Association, announced the winners of the William M. Carey Award.

The winning paper in the suppression category is Investigation of Hold Time Calculation Methodologies for Total Flood Clean Extinguishing Agents, authored by Todd Hetrick and Paul Rivers of 3M Fire Protection. The winning paper in the detection category is An Analysis of the Performance of Residential Smoke Detection Technologies Utilizing the Concept of Relative Time, authored by Elizabeth Milarcik, Stephen Olenick, and Richard Roby of Combustion Science and Engineering, Inc.

The awards were presented at the Fire Protection Research Foundation’s 2008 conference on Suppression and Detection Research and Applications held March 11-13 in Orlando, Fla.

The award was established in 2001 to recognize the most outstanding presentation at the suppression and detection conference. Winners for best presentation at the previous year’s conference were chosen based on a vote by participants and awards are given the following year. It is named after William Carey, P.E., senior staff engineer at Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. Carey made many major contributions to new fire suppression technologies and served on various technical advisory committees on the Foundation.