About Us

Who we are

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:

  • 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

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Malachi Fearnhead

Apprentice

Tina Iacono

Tina Iacono

Business Support

Mussain Musafar

Mussain Musafar

Graduate Engineer

Waqas Haider

Waqas Haider

Engineer

Iris Chang

Iris Chang

Associate

Aman Vora

Aman Vora

Graduate Engineer

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Charlotte Lunla-Pickup

Business Support

Aswathi Prakesh

Aswathi Prakesh

Graduate Engineer

Merl Forrer

Merl Forrer

Senior Associate

Eoghan Given

Eoghan Given

Associate

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Shrey Shekhar

Engineer

Fergus Hamilton-Blackett

Fergus Hamilton-Blackett

Engineer

Roy Little

Roy Little

Associate Director

Lindsey Waterworth

Lindsey Waterworth

Personal Assistant to Directors

Faith Ojomo

Faith Ojomo

Apprentice

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Muneeb Kazmi

Graduate Engineer

Iolanda Del Prete

Iolanda Del Prete

Associate

Iain Macfarlane

Iain Macfarlane

Director

Anna Powell

Anna Powell

Business Support

Weimiao Lu

Weimiao Lu

Senior Engineer

James O’Hanlon

James O’Hanlon

Associate

Max Cox

Max Cox

Graduate Engineer

Stephen Murphy

Stephen Murphy

Associate

George Wood

George Wood

Associate

Thomas Clarke

Thomas Clarke

Engineer

Ross Barritt-Mehta

Ross Barritt-Mehta

Senior Engineer

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Akshay Rathee

Graduate Engineer

Florian Block

Florian Block

Associate Director

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Shiban Fayaz Ahmed

Graduate Engineer

Nick Swailes

Nick Swailes

Senior Associate

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Rachel Ho

Graduate Engineer

Parina Patel

Parina Patel

Associate

Gretchen Xie

Gretchen Xie

Graduate Engineer

Francesca Ravenhill

Francesca Ravenhill

Associate

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Nandakishore Murali

Graduate Engineer

Gareth Ainley

Gareth Ainley

Senior Associate

Stuart Crick

Stuart Crick

Associate

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Ekaterina Krasnova

Graduate Engineer

Matt Whitehead

Matt Whitehead

Associate

Adeyanju Oluwa

Adeyanju Oluwa

Engineer

Lisa Hetherington

Lisa Hetherington

Business Support

Adam Monaghan

Adam Monaghan

Director

Jonny Joinson

Jonny Joinson

Director

Andy Caba

Andy Caba

Graduate Engineer

James Mawdsley

James Mawdsley

Associate

Gemma Grant

Gemma Grant

Associate

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Nikki Monaghan

Human Resources

Sarah Forbes

Sarah Forbes

Business Support

Agboola Ogunleye

Agboola Ogunleye

Engineer

Neal Butterworth

Neal Butterworth

Director

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Nabila Rahman

Graduate Engineer

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