This award is named to honor the memory of Harry C. Bigglestone, who served as a trustee of the Fire Protection Research Foundation and chair of the NFPA Committee on Central Station Signaling Systems and who was a fellow and past president of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. He was also executive director of the Pacific regional office of the Insurance Services Office and taught at Cogswell College in San Francisco.
The award is given annually to the paper appearing in Fire Technology that best represents excellence in the communication of fire protection concepts. Accompanying this award is a $5,000 cash prize from the Fire Protection Research Foundation.
Recipients
2022 - Dr. M.Z. Naser
2021 - Nico de Koker, R. S. Walls, A. Cicione, Z. R. Sander, S. Löffel, J. J. Claasen, S. J. Fourie, L. Croukamp, and D. Rush
2020 - Jim McLennan, Barbara Ryan, Chris Bearman, and Keith Toh
2019 - Dr. Wojciech Wegrzyński, Tomasz Lipecki
2018 - Ruben Van Coile, Georgios Balomenos, Mahesh Pandey, Robby Caspeele
2017 - Enrico Ronchi, Erica Kuligowski, Daniel Nilsson, Richard Peacock, Paul Reneke
2016 - Henrik Bjelland, Ove Njå, Atle William Heskestad, Geir Sverre Braut
2015 - Ethan I.D. Foote, and Samuel L. Manzello
2014 - Ann Jeffers, Qianru Guo, Kaihang Shi and Zili Jia, Erica Kuligowski
2013 - Kristopher Overholt and Ofodike (D.K.) Ezekoye
2012 - Gregory T. Linteris
2011 - Robert Jansson and Lars Borstrom
2010 - Paul Mason, Charles Fleischmann, Chris Rogers, Alan McKinnon, Keith Unsworth, Michael Spearpoint
2009 - Dorothy Bruck and Ian Thomas
2008 - Bogdan Dlugogorski, Eric Kennedy, Ted Schaefer
2007 - Michael S. Klassen, Jason A. Sutula, Maclain M. Holton, Richard J. Roby, Thomas Izbicki
2006 - Brian Y. Lattimer, Uri Vandsburger, Richard J. Roby
2005 - Tingguang Ma, Stephen M. Olenick, Michael S. Klassen, Richard J. Roby, José L. Torero
2004 - Susan L. Rose-Pehrsson, Sean J. Hart, Thomas T. Street, Frederick W. Williams, Mark H. Hammond, Daniel T. Gottuk, Mark T. Wright, Jennifer T. Wong
2003 - Scott K. Anderson, Robert G. Bill, Jr., Richard Ferron, Hsiang-Cheng Kung
2002 - Steven D. Wolin, Noah Ryder, Frederick LePrince, James Milke, Frederick Mowrer, Jose Torero
2001 - James R. Lawson, William E. Mell
2000 - James A. Milke
1999 - Brian Y. Lattimer, Richard Roby, Uri Vandsburger
1998 - James Quintiere
1997 - Mohammed Sultan, Noah L. Ryder, Frederick Leprince, James A. Milke, Frederick W. Mowrer, Jose L. Torero
1996 - Thomas McAvoy, James A. Milke
1995 - Charles J. Kibert, Douglas Dierdorf
1994 - Robert G. Bill, Jr., Hsiang-Cheng Kung
1993 - David J. O’Connor, Gordon W. H. Silcock
1992 - John R. Hall, Jr., Ai Sekizawa
1991 - Frederick W. Mowrer
1990 - Homer W. Carhart, Francis R. Faith, J. Thomas Hughes, Curtis T. Ewing
1989 - Dingyi Huan, John Krasny, John Rockett
1988 - Frederick W. Mowrer, Robert Brady Williamson
1987 - Richard L. Smith
1986 - Peter F. Johnson
1985 - T. T. Lie, Kenneth J. Schwartz