Planting Trees for the Climate

From the beginning of 2021 onwards, DFC committed to planting trees as part of a rewilding project in the Highlands of Scotland. Global warming is a huge issue facing us all and has many complex layers. This can make it feel like a problem that is simply too large for an individual to solve. However, […]

Posted by Design Fire
On 6th July 2021

Ross Barritt-Mehta Awarded Chartered Engineer Status

Last week, while on shared parental leave, Ross received the news from CIBSE that his application for Chartered Engineer status was successful. Congratulations Ross! Ross brings the total number of Chartered Engineers at DFC up to eight. Ross also brings diversity to the chartered cohort by being the first DFC staff member to be granted […]

Posted by Matthew Eyre
On 5th July 2021

Nick’s Thoughts on Engagement, Career Development and Feedback

It should have been two years ago, when DFC launched its updated Engagement Strategy guidelines, that I understood how engagement and career development planning could help me. But, unfortunately, those presentations, group discussions and documents, like so many things before it, did not quite make it through. It was only recently, 11 years into having […]

Posted by Nick Swailes
On 16th June 2021

Hugh Foster Joins DFC

We are pleased to welcome Hugh Foster to the DFC team. Hugh has gained a broad range of experience within fire engineering over the past 7 years, from designing large shopping centres and airports to applying first principles and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modelling. Hugh is based in our London office as a Senior Fire […]

Posted by Matthew Eyre
On 28th April 2021

Matthew Eyre awarded Chartered Engineer status

Last week Matthew Eyre received some welcome news from the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE): he was accepted as a Chartered Engineer. Congratulations Matt and it is well deserved. This is not Matthew’s first time achieving chartered status. Having started his career in Australia, Matthew was awarded Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status by Engineers Australia […]

Posted by Iain Macfarlane
On 13th April 2021

Jack Dubbey Joins DFC

We are delighted that Jack Dubbey recently joined DFC as a Senior Fire Engineer, based in our London office. Having worked in the industry for nearly 7 years, Jack has plenty of experience in fire engineering and also completing fire risk assessments on a number of different types of buildings. His favourite fire engineering project […]

Posted by Matthew Eyre
On 12th April 2021

Andrew Buck Joins DFC

We recently welcomed Andrew Buck to the growing team in the Manchester office. Andrew has an MSc in Fire Safety Engineering (with Distinction) along with over 2 years’ experience in the Fire Engineering industry. He also holds a BEng in Chemical Engineering (1st Class Honours). Andrew further developed his interest in Fire Engineering working as […]

Posted by Matthew Eyre
On 23rd March 2021

Weimiao Lu: Research Published in Fire Safety Journal

Congratulations to Weimiao whose hard work has resulted in her most recent paper being accepted by the Fire Safety Journal. Weimiao completed her PhD at City, University of London, where she developed an innovative coupled thermo-mechanical damage modelling approach, and implemented it in finite element software ABAQUS to perform fire-induced progressive collapse analysis of steel framed […]

Posted by Matthew Eyre
On 4th March 2021

Fire Engineering: Why Care?

As part of the DFC 10 year celebration posts (beginnings, projects, team), I wanted to reflect on the past, the present and celebrate the future of fire engineering. However, in the end, I concluded that whether we celebrate the future of fire engineering depends on the direction taken with respect to outcome vs prescriptive regulation […]

Posted by Matthew Eyre
On 9th February 2021

DFC Sponsors PhD Candidate Studying Layered Construction Materials

Fire Engineering is a complex field that relies heavily on Fire Science. Over the past few years we’ve enjoyed our close relationship with the great team at the Edinburgh Fire Research Centre at The University of Edinburgh (check out our post from last year’s CPD session here). However, it’s important that the science stays up […]

Posted by Matthew Eyre
On 12th January 2021

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