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Daryn Glasgow

Director, Chief Technical Officer

Areas of Expertise

Healthcare Life Safety
Fire Safety Engineering

New Zealand

After an extensive twelve-year career as an operational Fire-fighter/officer in the military crash rescue and urban fire environment, Daryn’s career focus shifted to taking this valuable experience and applying it to technical fire engineering. He has five years regulatory design review experience and 16 years fire engineering design experience of projects in airports, health and hospital development, transportation infrastructure (tunnel and rail), stadia, corrections, commercial buildings (retail, warehousing and office), on shore petrochemical, construction, and food sectors. His roles have included job functions from Design Engineer, Senior (lead) Design Engineer, section and project team management, and emergency operational command. Specializing in large scale performance-based fire engineering design of specialist facilities, and buildings with challenging geometries, occupancy and usage, he has developed a strong portfolio of successful and award-winning projects and has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor to our clients, regulators and central government.

Education / Certifications
  • ME, Fire Engineering, University of Canterbury
  • BE (Hons), Mechanical Engineering, Auckland University of Engineering
  • CPEng: New Zealand
  • International Professional Engineer (IntPE)
  • Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) Membership Qualification, UK
  • Structural and Rescue Firefighting (NZQA)
  • Former Executive Director and Member, The Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)
  • Former President and Member, Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), New Zealand Chapter
  • Chartered Member, Engineering New Zealand