What is Fire Engineering? How do we resolve the tension between restrictive building codes, regulations and architectural and sustainable design? As a well-respected leader in Fire Engineering, Elementa use science, engineering, and an experienced network of fire safety engineers to facilitate freedom in design, balancing function, aesthetics, and sustainability, while maintaining building fire safety to community expectations. The necessity of sustainable buildings brings with it a complex challenge in designing building fire safety strategies. Such strategies can resolve large atriums, progressive architectural design features, and preserve the integrity of renewable building materials. Fire safety engineers assist in making design and project goals a reality. Our engineers are respected in the industry as thought leaders. They are at the forefront of research and work with the policy departments and professional bodies to influence future building codes and regulations helping make safer, healthier, and more sustainable buildings.
Areas of Expertise • Alternative fire-engineering performance-based design • Qualitative and quantitative fire risk assessments • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) fire modelling • Smoke flow analysis • Heat transfer analysis • Occupant evacuation simulation • Structural behaviour analysis • Investigation of fire safety issues • Fire safety audits and risk assessments • Development of fire safety strategy and management plans • Collaborative research related to fire safety Right: Atrium and stair designs at Deakin University Learning Commons required fire safety strategy plans © Greg Long Top Right: Occupant evacuation simulations performed on a shopping centre floorplan in peak period Bottom Right: Protected lift lobby for using lifts to evacuate in the event of fire
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