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
Thomas Clarke
Engineer
Francesca Ravenhill
Associate
Waqas Haider
Engineer
Stephen Murphy
Associate
Parina Patel
Associate
Iris Chang
Associate
Merl Forrer
Senior Associate
Muneeb Kazmi
Graduate Engineer
Gemma Grant
Associate
Jonny Joinson
Director
Gretchen Xie
Graduate Engineer
Nandakishore Murali
Graduate Engineer
Matt Whitehead
Associate
Ekaterina Krasnova
Graduate Engineer
Max Cox
Graduate Engineer
Shiban Fayaz Ahmed
Graduate Engineer
Malachi Fearnhead
Apprentice
Adeyanju Oluwa
Engineer
Agboola Ogunleye
Engineer
Lisa Hetherington
Business Support
Kirstie Davies
Commercial and Contracts Compliance Officer
Nabila Rahman
Graduate Engineer
Nikki Monaghan
Human Resources
Tina Iacono
Business Support
Lindsey Waterworth
Personal Assistant to Directors
Eoghan Given
Associate
Shrey Shekhar
Engineer
Anna Powell
Business Support
Weimiao Lu
Senior Engineer
Nick Swailes
Senior Associate
Stuart Crick
Associate
Ross Barritt-Mehta
Senior Engineer
Roy Little
Associate Director
Neal Butterworth
Director
Akshay Rathee
Graduate Engineer
George Wood
Associate
Rachel Ho
Graduate Engineer
James Mawdsley
Senior Engineer
Adam Monaghan
Director
Fergus Hamilton-Blackett
Engineer
Iain Macfarlane
Director
Gareth Ainley
Senior Associate
Charlotte Lunla-Pickup
Business Support
James O’Hanlon
Associate
