Design Fire Consultants is an independent company who are passionate about engineering, service delivery and enjoying our work. Being independent, we are able to set our own priorities, which are to:
Who we are
- Deliver a consistently high quality, high value service to our clients on every project.
- Remove fire related constraints and enable architectural intent and good design.
- Form proactive relationships with clients, design teams and other key stakeholders.
- Develop, support and reward our staff and create an enjoyable working environment.
- Innovate and solve technical challenges.
- Engage with academia and industry to ensure we are at the forefront of our discipline.
What we do
Our aim is to provide any fire safety engineering service that our clients need during design, construction and operation in the built environment. Below we have listed some of the common services that we provide.
- Work with clients to identify their fire safety goals, including life-safety, property protection, business continuity and sustainability.
- Production of risk and benefits (opportunities) analysis including provision of feasibility reports and marked up drawings.
- Production of succinct and concise design notes and fire safety strategy documentation to assist in planning and regulatory compliance.
- Means of escape analysis, maximum occupant loads and space planning.
- Strategic cause & effect of detection and alarm systems with the fire safety design.
- Performance specification for fire protection features and systems (e.g. suppression, smoke control, passive fire protection, fire fighting facilities, etc.).
- Evacuation and thermal radiation modelling, computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis.
- Structural Fire Engineering.
- Construction monitoring, as-built strategies, risk assessments and fire safety management.
- International code consultancy.
Our Team
Florian Block
Associate Director
Claire Micaëlli
Engineer
Nikki Monaghan
Human Resources Manager
Stephen Murphy
Associate
Andy Caba
Graduate Engineer
Mussain Musafar
Graduate Engineer
Weimiao Lu
Associate
James O’Hanlon
Senior Associate
Edwin Ayala
Engineer
Thomas Clarke
Senior Engineer
Rav Dhanjal
Director
Iain Macfarlane
Director
Adam Monaghan
Director
Anna Mason
Business Support
Fergus Hamilton-Blackett
Senior Engineer
Krish Bommanaboyina
Engineer
Malachi Fearnhead
Apprentice
Nandakishore Murali
Engineer
Gretchen Xie
Engineer
Max Cox
Graduate Engineer
Sarah Forbes
Senior Business Support
Sophie Ewen
Graduate Engineer
Nabila Rahman
Engineer
Ross Barritt-Mehta
Associate
Lisa Hetherington
Senior Business Support
Agboola Ogunleye
Senior Engineer
Ekaterina Krasnova
Engineer
Lindsey Waterworth
Personal Assistant to Directors
Tom Buckley
Senior Engineer
Kishan Dey
Engineer
Kirstie Davies
Senior Commercial Officer
Faith Ojomo
Apprentice
Tina Iacono
Business Support
Waqas Haider
Engineer
Akshay Rathee
Engineer
Anna Powell
Associate Business Support
Charlotte Lunla-Pickup
Associate Business Support
George Wood
Associate
Eoghan Given
Senior Associate
Iris Chang
Associate
Francesca Ravenhill
Senior Associate
Aman Vora
Graduate Engineer
Rachel Bayliss
Senior Engineer
Jonny Joinson
Director
Iolanda Del Prete
Senior Associate
Jack Mitchell
Graduate Engineer
Stuart Crick
Associate
Sarah Dallison
Engineer
Aswathi Prakesh
Graduate Engineer
Rachel Ho
Engineer
Alex Tripp
Trainee
Nurul Anuar
Graduate Engineer
Roy Little
Associate Director
Neal Butterworth
Director
Gemma Grant
Associate
Kerry Baker
Apprentice
Gareth Ainley
Senior Associate
Adeyanju Oluwa
Senior Engineer
Nick Swailes
Senior Associate
