FIRE ENGINEERING

DEFINED

Fire engineering is the expert understanding of how fire can affect people and our built environment. It forms a distinct design discipline in its own right.

Fire safety engineering, in its simplest terms, is about ensuring that people have enough time to escape from a building when there is a fire.  To do this, we analyse the events that take place between a fire starting and occupants reaching a place of safety.  Each fire engineering solution is specific to the building, and an assessment may include an analysis of:

• Occupant characteristics
• Smoke detector and sprinkler response times
• Fire growth rates, smoke production and the time taken for a room to fill with smoke.
• Time taken for occupants to reach an exit.

At The Fire Engineer, We often use advanced computer modelling programmes to support our analysis. A fire engineering solution can help our clients to resolve any number of issues, from a minor increase in escape distances to developing the escape strategy for an entire shopping centre.