Steve has also worked in Training, Recruitment and Specialist Fire Safety roles. In 2001 he moved to a Community Fire Safety role at HQ where he was involved, among other things, in the promotion of fire suppression systems, primarily in community housing projects, schools and heritage buildings.

Steve has attended training courses on the design, installation and maintenance of Commercial & Industrial and Residential & Domestic sprinkler systems.

In 2005, he helped to set in process the fitting of suppression systems for the very vulnerable through the Home Fire Safety Check initiative and to date has overseen the fitting of 17 full systems within the West Midlands Fire Service area, including a 68 bed residence for adults in the community.

Steve has also worked on the CFOA Automatic Water Suppression Systems group and was recently seconded to the Water Liaison Group of the National Fire Sprinkler Network. He is an active and enthusiastic supporter for measures to reduce fire loss to life, property and the environment.

He became Technical Officer of ASFP in April 2006, is a committee member of a number of BSI fire committees, chairs BSI FSH 22/8 External fire exposure to roofs, and was a member of the inaugural Board of the Engineering Council Division of Institution of Fire Engineers.

He represents ASFP on BRE Certification Panel D preparing Loss Prevention Standards, and Construction Products Association on fire matters at CEPMC Fire WG and the latter on resistance to fire at CEN TC127.

He is especially interested in guidance for the appropriate use of composite sandwich panel products and the avoidance of badly installed fire protection systems.

Dr. Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell - BSc, PhD, ARCS, M.Inst.P C.Phys - Senior Consultant, Fire Safety, BRE

Since joining BRE at the end of 1992, Jeremy has worked on the development and application of models for fire risk assessment and emergency evacuation models. These models have been applied to a wide range of different buildings, from single domestic dwellings to high-rise residential and office buildings, museum, theatre, leisure complex, exhibition hall, airport terminals, and tunnels.

In addition he has performed various risk analyses using the Home Office Fire Statistics database, a cost-benefit analysis of residential sprinklers, and is co-author of the BRE Simple Guide to Fire Safety Engineering.

The work he has done for DfES / DCSF includes development of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis tools to inform the decision whether or not a school should have a sprinkler system. He is also one of the co-authors of BB100: Design for Fire Safety in Schools.

Jeremy has published extensively on fire risk assessment and evacuation modelling; he frequently lectures on various Fire Safety Engineering courses.  

David is Director of Fire Engineering at BRE Global (incorporating the Fire Research Station) where he has undertaken research for the UK Government including the emergency use of lifts and escalators for emergency evacuation from tall buildings and underground complexes. He has over 20 years of fire safety experience. Prior to joining BRE, he was a Director of Arup Fire responsible for projects including; Attaturk International Airport Terminal in Istanbul, Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) and the Beijing Olympics Stadium. Previously he was Chief Engineer and Manager; Fire and Safety at NHS Estates, Department of Health where he was responsible for policy advice to Government Ministers and the FIRECODE suite of guidance. Prior to this he was a Senior Fire Risk Assessment Engineer with the UK Atomic Energy Authority.

In 2005, David became International President of the Institution of Fire Engineers. He was appointed Visiting Professor in Fire Risk Analysis at the University of Ulster in 2003. He chairs British Standards Committee FSH/24 and European Task Group CEN/TC127/TG1 on Fire Engineering and is UK expert to ISO/TC92/SC4/WG10 on Fire Risk Assessment. In 1994, David was awarded a PhD in Fire Growth and Smoke Movement from the University of Leeds. He was also responsible for the quantitative fire risk assessments of London Underground stations following the King’s Cross fire and Tartan Alpha offshore oil platform following the Piper Alpha disaster. He has published a large number of papers and articles on fire engineering.

He represents AXA Insurance on a number of property technical working groups of the ABI (Association of British Insurers) including modern methods of construction, composite panels, flood, business continuity and has represented the ABI as a technical expert in a number of forums including the CFOA task and finish group on automatic fire alarms.

Douglas was involved in the drafting of AXA’s practical guide for small business ‘preparing for climate change.’ In addition, Douglas has delivered presentations on climate change to external stakeholders.

Douglas is considered an industry expert on business continuity planning, particularly for SME’s, and his views have been regularly sought by external bodies with attributed comments having been utilised in the national media including the Financial Times & Economist.

Qualifications held by Douglas include a European Diploma in Fire Safety Management and he is a Graduate member of the Institution of Fire Engineers.

Over 20 years' with ADT Fire and Security as the UK Commercial Manager responsible for Pricing and Contractual Procedures throughout the UK. Prior to that,  almost 20 years of mainly Site Based Project Management controlling major multi-discipline capital projects in UK, Europe, US and North Africa.

Fire Industry Association (FIA) Technical Representative on British Standards committee FSH12/1. This is the committee responsible for BS 5839 Part 1. BSI Lead Technical Representative of CENELEC Technical Committee TC72 Working Group 11. This is the mirror committee for Design, Installation and Servicing in Europe responsible for a possible new Standard EN54 Part 14.

Bernard Laluvein

Martin Shipp - BSc (Physics) CEng FIFireE CPhys MInstP

Martin Shipp joined the Fire Research Station (part of BRE) in 1974 and is Technical Development Director, Fire Safety in BRE Fire and Security and Head of the BRE Centre for Fire Safety in Transport.  He currently has responsibility for fire investigation, fire safety management, fire risk assessment and projects related to all aspects of transport fire safety.

He has been involved with the investigations into Piper Alpha, Alexandra Palace,  and Windsor Castle, was a member of the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority investigation into the Channel Tunnel fire, and a member of the Railtrack investigation into Ladbroke Grove.  He assisted the investigation into the Yarl's Wood Detention Centre Fire as part of the Bedfordshire Police inquiry.

Other projects include drafting BS 5588 Part 12 code on the management of fire safety, the development of "key performance indicators" for fire safety engineering (for CLG) and managing an extensive programme of research for the Scottish Executive and the Procurator Fiscal in connection with the Rosepark Care Home fire.  He was a member of the BRE team that assisted with drafting some of the CLG RR(FS)O guidance documents.

Martin’s current projects include fire safety in car parks.  Recent work for DfES / DCSF includes development of risk assessment tool to inform the decision whether or not a school should have a sprinkler system and Martin is one of the co-authors of BB100: Design for Fire Safety in Schools.

Hazel Padmore - Assistant Solicitor, Browne Jabobson LLP