My professional background

As a Fire Engineer, I help clients to meet the performance requirements of the National Construction Code (NCC) – developing practical solutions to meet the needs of their project whilst still being aligned to the performance requirements and intent of their regulatory obligations.

I help them address fire safety related non-compliances with performance solutions, and the validation of these solutions by undertaking fire safety related calculations, Fire Dynamics Simulation (FDS) and evacuation modelling (Pathfinder).

I also have extensive experience in creating Building Fire Safety Risk Assessments in relation to combustible cladding to assist building owners to comply with their legislative and regulatory requirements.

My specialisations

• Performance based fire engineering solutions.
• Building Fire Safety Risk Assessments for combustible cladding.
• Computational fire and smoke modelling/simulation.
• Computational evacuation modelling/simulation.

My key project experience

Some of my key project experience relating to Performance Solutions includes*:

• Various Upgrade Projects at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre
• GPT Wembley Business Park – DHL Berrinba
• Sunshine Coase Cable Landing Station
• St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba – Gateway Building

Some of my key project experience relating to Building Fire Safety Risk Assessments includes*:

• All Queensland Westfield Shopping Centres
• The Barracks, Milton
• Aria Apartments, Broadbeach

*All completed at my previous role with Fire Engineers Australia

What creating inner beauty means to me

A project I’ve worked on (in my previous role at Fire Engineers Australia) that I think has some real inner beauty is the Beddown Pilot Program where I was able to assist in developing a strategy to ensure occupant safety while the Central Plaza One carpark was shifted to a temporary overnight accommodation project.