My
Fire Safety Services
After 20 years research
and leading-edge consultancy at the Fire Research Station, part of the
UK's Building Research Establishment, and several years working as an
independent Fire Safety Consultant, I give advice to building developers,
architects, engineers, insurers, building control officers, fire authorities,
manufacturers, and building material producers on the following:
- Solution
of design problems for buildings which do not satisfy prescriptive rules
- Fire
safety engineering studies and calculations including smoke control and radiation
from buildings
- Arbitration
on building approval applications under the building regulations
- Assisting
Building Control organisations in approving all aspects (strategy, design, construction
and commissioning) of complex fire safety engineered projects
- Conducting
Fire Risk Assessments under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and previously
the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations and fire related aspects of the Management
of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
- Fire
damage assessment (buildings and bridges) and recommendations on remedial measures
- Feasibility
studies and development of fire safety strategies
- Surveys
of passive fire precautions
- Recommendations
for remedial passive fire protection work
- Assessment
of performance when product is used outside its fire-tested limits
- Audits
on the work of designers and fire safety engineers
- Advice
on product development
- Expert
witness on passive fire precautions
- Expert
advice on the use of sandwich panels in buildings
- Undertaking
lectures, and technical writing of fire literature
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