Morgan Hurley
M.S., PE
Senior Director
Areas of Expertise
MD
Morgan is an Operations Leader responsible for technical oversight, quality control and delivery of engineering team production. His expertise includes fire modeling and egress analysis, fire detection and suppression systems design, performance-based fire safety design, risk analyses, and building code and life safety consultation. He also serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, teaching graduate courses on advanced fire protection engineering topics. Before joining Jensen Hughes he served as the Technical Director of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. In this role, he was responsible for identifying new and innovative methods of fire protection engineering and implementing them into practice. He is Editor-in-Chief of the SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering and co-author of the textbook Performance-Based Fire Safety Design, published in 2014.
Education / Certifications
- B.S., Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland
- M.S., Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland
- Certified PE: D.C, MD, VA
- Fellow, Society of Fire Protection Engineers
- Distinguished Alumni, Univ of Maryland Dept of Fire Protection Engr.
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Podcasts
Industry Insights Podcast | Occupant Evacuation Elevators
Oct 31, 2023
Join Morgan Hurley, PE, FSFPE and Matthew Weston-Dawkes, PE for a podcast discussion on recent changes to occupant evacuation elevators for the design and construction industry. Listen in for tips on designing elevators to be accepted as a means of egress per the 2009 edition of the International Building Code. Read the full published article in the Society of Fire Protection Engineer (SFPE) Fire Protection Engineering Magazine Q3 2023 here.