Experience and Clients

Experience

• Finding acceptable alternatives to the prescriptive fire regulations and codes
• Guiding owners/managers/designers of buildings, especially residential and commercial, on how to satisfy the fire regulations
• On behalf local authorities, approving fire safety aspects of complex fire safety engineered buildings
• Undertaking fire risk assessments
• Observing and auditing British and international fire tests
• Specifying passive fire precautions (structural fire precautions and means of escape)
• Specifying methods for upgrading fire resistance of buildings, especially historic buildings
• Identifying inadequacies in installed passive fire protection systems in buildings and proposing remedial measures
• Achieving fire resistance in lightweight building components
• Making informed Trade-off of active and passive fire protection methods
• Publishing BRE guidance on fire engineering design of tall fire walls
• Investigating thermal bowing and how it affects building design and publishing BRE design guidance
• Conducting BRE research into fire severity in enclosures and commenting on the time-equivalent method
• Arranging large scale fire tests at BRE for European harmonization of fire resistance furnaces
• Researching new methods of fire protecting steel work and predicting the behaviour of steel and composite structures
• Drafting BRE guidance on fire resistance of portal frames and composite deck floors
• Assessment of fire damage in buildings and bridges
• Researching fire safety design of lightweight sandwich panels
• Publishing BRE guidance on means of escape for the disabled
• Chairing British drafting work giving guidance on fire fighting lifts and lobby-approach stairways
• Undertaking smoke control design and calculation audits
• Contributing to the development of British and international documents/codes on fire safety engineering
• Assisting the development of a 10-year fire safety engineering research strategy for BRE

Clients

Government departments in Great Britain:

• Department of Environment
• Ministry of Defence
• Scottish Development Department
• Home Office
• Department of Health and Social Security
• Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
• Property Services Agency
• Department of Finance, Northern Ireland
• An Bord Pleanala (Planning Appeals Board ), Republic of Ireland

Overseas Public Sector clients:

• Overseas Development Administration, India
• United Nations Industrial and Development Organisation, Brazil
• Fire Safety Bureau, Singapore

Overseas Private Sector clients:

• Arbed Recherches, Luxembourg
• A major sandwich panel manufacturer, Finland
• Sodra, a major timber product manufacturer, Sweden

Private and commercial clients

• Too many to list (see list of 'Projects' where clients are mentioned)