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Ben is a chartered fire engineer for OFR Consultants Ltd with eight years’ experience as a consulting fire engineer within the UK. Ben has extensive experience in leading the fire and structural fire safety design for schemes from concept through to construction and ongoing fire safety management. He has a proven track record of delivering efficient design using numerical tools and structural fire engineering modelling to meet client led goals through the application of probabilistic methods and finite element assessments. He is currently working with various clients within the UK market to develop fire safety solutions for the design of mass timber and timber hybrid construction buildings including providing support for compartment fire testing.

OFR are a leading, single-discipline fire engineering company. We have developed our team with a specific emphasis on technical excellence and employ world leading experts in areas such as commercial property, residential developments, tall buildings, expert witness services, construction services, structural fire engineering, the use of timber in construction, research, modelling, and legacy support. Our holistic, concept-to-completion approach to the delivery of fire engineering services is particularly suited to minimising approvals, programme, and delivery risks on major projects. Challenges presented by construction phasing and multi-year programmes are more easily overcome by ensuring that strategies are properly agreed, documented, and seen through to completion by the fire engineer.