Landlords: are your residential developments meeting Queensland’s smoke alarm legislation?
By Clyde Pellew, Principal Electrical Engineer Just before midnight on August 2011, a fire started on the ground floor of a house in Slacks Creek…
Combustible Cladding Crisis – No financial support from Queensland Government
By Koroush Keshavarz – Senior Associate, Principal Fire Engineer. Combustible cladding is no laughing matter. The dangers of highly flammable cladding were brought to the…
Combustible Cladding Audit – What does Stage 3 involve?
The final deadline for eligible building owners in Queensland to organise a combustible cladding audit has passed. We now enter Stage 3 of the process….
The QBCC Cladding Assessment: Everything you need to know.
The QBCC cladding assessment is an initiative designed to assist building owners and property managers deliver on their obligations under new legislation introduced on October…
How to do a basic building fire safety risk assessment
A building fire safety risk assessment is an essential process that will occur at least once, if not multiple times, in the lifetime of any…
The revision to sprinkler standard AS2118.1-2017: What does it cover….and what does it mean?
By Koroush Keshavarz – Principal Fire Engineer The new revision of the sprinkler standard has finally been adopted by the Building Code of Australia. The…