Steven J. Scandaliato is principal and managing director at SDG. He has more than 37 years’ experience in fire protection engineering, contracting, design and project management, covering all types of fire protection and life safety systems. He serves as a member of several National Fire Protection Association committees, as well as a number of technical committees (the Technical Advisory Committee for the American Fire Sprinkler Association and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers). He also is a contributing author to the NFPA/SFPE publication, “A Designers Guide to Automatic Sprinkler Systems.”