Neal Butterworth

Director

Neal joined DFC in 2015 and brings over 21 years’ of experience in fire engineering to the team. Neal’s key strengths are his ingenuity, quality of thinking and the ability to form strong team working relationships. He prides himself on his continuous acquisition of technical knowledge, which enables him to deliver practical, high value solutions for his clients. In this regard, he has a proven track record across sectors, project stages and fire engineering specialisms both nationally and internationally.

Neal is internationally recognised within the fire engineering community. His active engagement with the Institution of Fire Engineers, industry and academia ensures that he leads industry standards and he is able to deliver state of the art technologies and methodologies.

Selected innovative project solutions include: Sky Building 2 which uses entirely open escape stairs; Sky Health and Fitness Centre which adopts exposed mass timber construction; and both ‘The Scalpel’ (52 Lime Street) and the London 2012 Olympic Stadium which required innovative structural fire engineering assessment methodologies.

Qualifications: MPhil, CEng, MIFireE, Bond Solon (CUBS) certified

Experience: 25 years

Specialist Expertise: Fire Engineering Design, Structural Fire Engineering, Fire Regulation

Our Team

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Nandakishore Murali

Graduate Engineer

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Max Cox

Trainee Engineer

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Stuart Crick

Associate

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James O’Hanlon

Associate

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Anna Powell

Business Support

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Fergus Hamilton-Blackett

Engineer

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James Mawdsley

Senior Engineer

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Gemma Grant

Associate

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Matt Whitehead

Associate

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Ross Barritt-Mehta

Senior Engineer

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Sarah Forbes

Business Support

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Iain Macfarlane

Director

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Adeyanju Oluwa

Engineer

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Nabila Rahman

Graduate Engineer

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Agboola Ogunleye

Engineer

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Gareth Ainley

Senior Associate

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Roy Little

Senior Associate

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Eoghan Given

Associate

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George Wood

Senior Engineer

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Adam Monaghan

Director

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Shiban Fayaz Ahmed

Graduate Engineer

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Ekaterina Krasnova

Graduate Engineer

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Lindsey Waterworth

Personal Assistant to Directors

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Parina Patel

Associate

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Rachel Ho

Graduate Engineer

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Tina Iacono

Business Support

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Muneeb Kazmi

Graduate Engineer

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Weimiao Lu

Engineer

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Francesca Ravenhill

Associate

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Merl Forrer

Senior Associate

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Lisa Hetherington

Business Support

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Iris Chang

Associate

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Thomas Clarke

Engineer

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Malachi Fearnhead

Apprentice

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Charlotte Lunla-Pickup

Business Support

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Neal Butterworth

Director

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Gretchen Xie

Graduate Engineer

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Waqas Haider

Engineer

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Nikki Monaghan

Human Resources

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Akshay Rathee

Graduate Engineer

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Nick Swailes

Associate

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Shrey Shekhar

Engineer

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Stephen Murphy

Associate

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Jonny Joinson

Director