Structural fire engineering is a method used to predict how fire might affect different parts of a building. It looks at the likely fire conditions and assesses how they would impact the building's structure.
Ensuring Structural Resilience + Safety in Buildings
The fundamental principle of building fire safety is that the building’s structure must be sufficiently resilient to withstand the expected fire conditions. This resilience is essential to ensure that the building can support the safe and efficient evacuation of occupants, as well as facilitate the intervention activities of fire brigade personnel during an emergency. In addition to protecting the safety of people, it is equally important to consider the long-term protection of property and the continuity of business operations following a severe fire. This comprehensive approach to fire safety helps minimise risk, safeguard lives, and maintain the integrity and functionality of the building even in the event of a major fire.
Expert Structural Fire Engineering for Innovative Building Design
Structural fire engineering provides a means of achieving these goals while allowing building designers flexibility to use non-typical building materials such as structural steel or timber. With a wealth of global experience, our staff have a detailed understanding of fire behaviour, heat transfer and structural response. They can help guide the structural fire engineering process. We work closely with the design team particularly architects and structural engineers to understand and deliver the desired design outcomes.
Structural Fire Engineering Services
Jensen Hughes offers a range of structural fire engineering services from simple guidance to complex analysis. This evaluation helps to understand how much fire protection is required to achieve structural reliability, if there is a fire. Our services include:
- Structural fire engineering solutions for steel, timber, concrete and composite structures
- Analysing the thermal and structural response of building elements exposed to fire
- Finite element modelling of structural systems
- Liaison with fire testing laboratories to determine required fire testing or assessments for novel structural designs or connection
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Masters of Engineering, Fire Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Chemical and Process Engineering, Registered Professional Engineer, Chartered Professional Engineer, NER (Fire Safety), Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland, Fire Safety
Master of Engineering, Fire Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Civil Engineering, Chartered Professional Engineer (CPENG)
MS, Fire Safety Engineering, BS (Hons), Mechanical Engineering, PE (23357), CPEng (4601436), Member
