ASTM International Committee F12 on Security Systems and Equipment has presented the Award of Merit to H. Scott Norville, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. The Award of Merit and its accompanying title of fellow is ASTM’s highest organizational recognition for individual contributions to standards activities.

Committee F12 noted Norville’s technical expertise, dedicated service and commitment to the pursuit of safer buildings through ASTM standards since he joined the committee in 1985. A past chairman and current first vice chairman of the committee, Norville also serves as vice chairman of Subcommittee F12.10 on Systems Products and Services. He is also active on Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings, where he co-chairs the Task Group on Glass Strength, and is a main technical contributor to ASTM E1300, the standard by which all glass within the U.S. is currently designed for wind load and is routinely used in construction specifications for both commercial and government projects. 

Norville has been active in wind engineering and research on the strength and behavior of glass and buildings since he joined the faculty at Texas Tech in 1981. He became a full professor in 1992 and chair of the civil and environmental engineering department in 2004. A registered professional engineer in the state of Texas, Norville is also director of the Glass Research and Testing Laboratory at Texas Tech.

A graduate of the University of Toledo, Ohio, where he received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Norville earned a master’s in civil engineering (structures) and his doctorate in civil engineering (structural reliability) from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American National Standards Institute in addition to ASTM.

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