What Happens When a Fire Safety Engineer Peer Reviews a Design? A peer review is more than a second set of eyes. Fire engineering designs can involve complex assumptions, calculations, modelling and engineering judgement. An independent review provides an opportunity...
Through our fire safety expert witness work, we've noticed the same issues arise time and again across building litigation matters. One of the most common involves product substitution. A specified product may become unavailable, too expensive or subject to long lead...
A building can be compliant when it's completed—but is it still performing as originally designed years later? A fire safety performance gap can develop when building alterations, maintenance or renovations change the way fire safety systems perform without...
The Hidden Risks in Exterior Wall Assemblies In modern construction, we’ve made buildings lighter, more energy efficient, and more visually striking than ever before using exterior cladding or façade systems. These systems include combustible materials like aluminium...
Product Traceability Fire Safety Compliance and Legal Protection Traceability is the ability to share information about a product or system along its supply chain and lifecycle, across production, distribution, installation and maintenance. The purpose is to ensure...
Fire Engineering & Electric Vehicles Electric vehicles (EVs) are now a permanent part of the world we live in. Across Australia, certifiers and designers are increasingly being asked to approve EV charging infrastructure in residential buildings, commercial...
National Construction Code (NCC) 2025 The NCC 2025 is now available. This new edition includes changes to: Carpark fire safety: Sprinkler protection for open deck carparks (other than stand-alone open deck carparks) and reduced scenarios where concessions to fire...
Buildings challenges associated with Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure Conference Recap By Christina Knorr, Fire Safety Expert and Expert Witness I recently had the privilege of speaking at an internal conference organised by a building certification company...