Fire Engineering

Designs for a safe New Zealand built environment

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Our Services

FIRE DESIGNs FOR BUILDING CONSENT

Building designs using a variety of methods including Verification Method, Specific fire engineering design and Acceptable Solution prescriptive design.

PEER REVIEW

Approved peer reviewers for many Building Consent Authorities around the country with the necessary qualifications and experience to review all aspects of any fire engineering design.

Construction MONITORING

Construction observation undertaken during the construction phase of projects to ensure that the fire engineering design is implemented correctly into completed buildings.

COMPUTER MODELING

In-house expertise to both undertake and review fire modelling using either a zone model or computational fluid dynamic models such as Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS).

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & TESTING

We have expertise and experience working with product manufacturers to develop and test fire rated products and systems to ensure complience certification.

SPECIALIST CONSULTING

Expert fire engineering advice to local and central governments, the provision of expert testimony for litigation purposes and assistance to national and international businesses and non-government organisations.

Our History

Founded in 2005 OnFire Consulting has grown to become one of New Zealand’s preeminent specialist fire engineering consultants

We have established a reputation for developing new ideas and approaches to assist our clients with professional innovative fire designs. We develop unique solutions to meet our client's brief whilst achieving the standards required by the relevant approving authority.

COMMERCIAL
COMMERCIAL

We work with any type of commercial building from simple warehouse designs through to luxurious office buildings and state of the art manufacturing facilities.

RETIREMENT
RETIREMENT

Retirement Villages are an important part of our community. We work with developers to ensure our retirement sector are provided with safe and compliant facilities whilst ensuring its treated as a person’s home.

RETAIL
RETAIL

Retail complexes range from small stand-alone shops through to large multilevel shopping malls. We have fantastic experience with all types of retail.

EDUCATION
EDUCATION

New and existing schools are undergoing major transformations. We work with all areas of the education sector from small Early Childhood Centre’s through to new schools (primary and secondary) as well as large tertiary campus projects.

TOURISM / ACCOMODATION
tOURISM / ACCOMODATION

Our tourist sectors are booming and therefore so are projects in this area, from new hotel and motels through to tourist activities, we can help you out.

HEALTHCARE
HEALTHCARE

We have significant experience in all types of healthcare projects from complex large hospitals through to simpler doctors and dentist surgeries.

RESIDENTIAL
RESIDENTIAL

We work on all types of multi residential projects from small duplex units right through to large mixed use apartment complexes.

CROWD USE
CROWD USE

Cinemas, Stadium, halls and other crowd use buildings have particular fire safety issues. We have experience and capability to work on these challenging projects.