{"id":8088,"date":"2016-08-29T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-staging.bu.edu\/amnesp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8088"},"modified":"2024-07-30T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T20:14:29","slug":"sara-wermiel","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/profile\/sara-wermiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Wermiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Areas<\/strong>: novel building assemblies and materials, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; fire-resistive construction and life safety; construction industry \u2013 general contractors; building typologies: warehouses, lighthouses, textile mills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Lighthouses<\/em>, W. W. Norton\/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design &amp; Engineering (2006).<\/p>\n<p><em>Army Engineers\u2019 Contribution to the Development of Iron Construction in the Nineteenth Century<\/em>, Public Works Historical Society (2002).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City<\/em>, The Johns Hopkins University Press (2000).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntroduction of the Rolled I-beam in the U.S.A. in the 1850s, Revisited,\u201d James Campbell et al., eds., <em>Iron, Steel and Buildings \u2026 Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the Construction History Society<\/em> (CHS, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire escapes,\u201d The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2019) <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphiaencyclopedia.org\/archive\/fire-escapes\/\">https:\/\/philadelphiaencyclopedia.org\/archive\/fire-escapes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergence of heavy contracting in the United States in the nineteenth century.\u201d In <em>Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories<\/em> vol. 2. London: Taylor &amp; Francis Group (2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11572,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11234,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8088\/revisions\/11234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}