Independent fire safety engineering.
UK and Ireland.

Expert fire safety engineers

Expert fire safety engineers working with developers, architects, contractors and building owners across all building sectors.


What we do

Services

01 — Designing

New buildings

Fire strategy from concept through to construction issue, and the approvals that go with it.

  • Fire safety strategy & design
  • Gateway submission support
  • Drawing mark-ups & design-team support
02 — Operating

Existing buildings

Assessment, survey and remediation for buildings already in use, and the duty-holder obligations that come with them.

  • FRAEW to PAS 9980 (including EWS1 forms)
  • Retrospective Fire Strategies
  • Façade remediation strategy
03 — Modelling

Specialist analysis

Advanced techniques where prescriptive guidance doesn't fit, or where a design needs quantified justification.

  • CFD modelling
  • Structural fire engineering
  • Evacuation modelling

Who you'll work with

Meet the founders


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Liam Curran

Director
Donegal, Ireland

Over fifteen years in fire engineering across Ireland and the UK, on complex residential, commercial, education and custodial projects. Works in zone and CFD smoke control modelling, external wall assessment, and fire-engineered alternatives to generic guidance. Lectures in Fire Safety Engineering at Atlantic Technological University.

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Austin Coyle

Director
London, United Kingdom

Sixteen years in fire engineering across Ireland, Australia and the UK, including senior roles at industry leading fire engineering specialists. Most recently, Austin led a team of specialist engineers dealing with the assessment and remediation of external wall systems on existing high-risk residential buildings.

Sectors

Buildings we work on

Commercial & offices

Fit-out, refurbishment, new build

Residential & mixed-use

Apartments, student, build-to-rent

Hospitality

Hotels, bars, restaurants

Healthcare

Hospitals, primary care, nursing

Education

Schools, third level, research

Industrial & warehousing

Storage, distribution, manufacturing

Retail

Units, centres, tenancy fit-out

Heritage & existing

Listed, conversion, change of use

Process

Project Lifecycle

01

Enquiry

A call to understand the building, the stage you're at and what approval you're working toward.

02

Proposal

Fixed scope and fee, with the deliverables and the regulatory route set out in writing.

03

Engineering

Strategy developed against the relevant code, with design-team workshops as required.

04

Issue & support

Report issued for approval, then support through comments, construction and close-out.


Get in touch

Tell us about the building.

London

Austin Coyle

Ireland

Liam Curran