Sarah Swan

Ms. Swan obtained her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a Management minor from Purdue University. She is a member of the NFPA 232 Technical Committee, a member of the Sustainability and Resilience Work Group of the SFPE Global Challenges Initiative, and a member of both the Storage and Manufacturing and Assembly Facilities Task Groups contributing to the development of NFPA 800. She also served as a member on the Advisory Panel for the development of the SFPE report Fire Testing of Resilient and Sustainable Building Materials. Ms. Swan’s technical expertise includes building and fire codes, suppression and fire alarm system design, nuclear fire protection, lithium-ion battery fire protection and safety, fire hazard analyses, hazardous material analyses, high-piled storage permitting, and performance-based inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire protection systems. She has specialized expertise in hazardous material analyses and lithium-ion battery fire hazard assessments, with extensive experience supporting industrial, storage, DOE, nuclear, high-rise, and lithium-ion battery facilities, as well as projects for the General Services Administration. In her role at RAN, Ms. Swan is responsible for code consulting, design, and field work across federal and private-sector projects throughout the United States.