Fire Safety Consultant, London, UK

My practice is small and this means that every job gets my personal attention. I am very well qualified, both academically and professionally.

I have a massive fund of fire safety research and experience having had the benefit of twenty years experience working at the Building Research Establishment's Fire Research Station (the government's centre of excellence), and over twelve years subsequently as an independent fire safety consultant based in London.

My projects show that I have been recently involved in very large fire safety engineered projects (value more than £100million) as a checking authority for a major London Local Authority (responsible from project inception to handover). I am able to make and audit smoke control calculations.

I have made many fire risk assessments of buildings, some of them associated with sandwich panels - a modern construction element on which I have particular expertise and have published much guidance.

Some of the most challenging projects are conversions in residential buildings which do not satisfy the prescriptive guidance in the regulations and codes and require a fire safety engineered approach using compatible passive and active fire defence measures.

In all this work it is essential to gain a complete understanding of the 3-dimensional geometry and compartmentation of the building so that all possible paths of fire effluent can be considered when deciding on human tenability. Only then can an effective fire safety strategy be developed that satisfies the functional fire regulations and other requirements.

I regard myself as a problem solver and an innovator. I also contribute to the education of students and fire safety professionals through my extensive publications.

I work on an hourly fee rate. I do no speculative work and rarely any fixed fee work. Though I work mostly on my own, I am content to work with other fire consultants if the project merits it - examples are the Millennium dome (the biggest dome in the world) and the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. I request payment within 14 days of submitting invoice.

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