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2024 Summer Placement Journey – Part 2 of 3

This year, DFC welcomed three exceptional students: Alex, Jack and Sophie, who wanted to deepen their skills and understanding of fire engineering through hands-on experience. Here in Part 2 of our three-part blog, ‘Summer Placement Journey’, Sophie shared her experiences from her eight-week placement with us. By: Sophie Ewen, 2024 Summer Placement, Leeds “During my […]

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On 11th October 2024

DFC’s 2024 CPD at the University of Edinburgh’s Fire Research Centre

By: Waqas Heider, Parina Patel and Nick Swailes Background DFC has been coming to Edinburgh, en masse, for annual CPD, since 2018. In our first year, we had space to spread out in a small classroom. Since then, we’ve covered flame spread, timber, heat transfer, and structural fire engineering before this year’s deep dive to […]

Posted by Design Fire Consultant
On 4th October 2024

Power to the People

By: Neal Butterworth, Director Two weeks ago, we attended our annual continuing professional development (CPD) event at the University of Edinburgh. As always, it was immensely educational, insightful and enjoyable. This year’s theme was very loosely based on the concept of “regulation by disaster”. The concept combined a fantastic mix of politics, incentives and theory […]

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On 20th September 2024

Shaping the City: Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day

In recognition of International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED), 23rd June is a day dedicated to celebrating and acknowledging the achievements, contributions and impact of women in the field of engineering. This year, we did something a bit different! Our staff went on a leisurely summer walk through parts of Manchester City Centre, visiting some […]

Posted by Design Fire Consultant
On 24th June 2024

DFC’s Eoghan Takes on Charity Cycle Challenge!

Eoghan Given, a devoted cycling enthusiast and dedicated triathlete from our Leeds office, had a great opportunity in taking part in the Colliers Sportif North 2024 – Charity Bike Ride event took place on 7 June in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. This charity bike ride, hosted by Colliers and powered by Struggle Events, raised funds for […]

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On 19th June 2024

DFC Christmas Event, York 2023

By: Malachi Fearnhead, Apprentice This was my first Christmas event at DFC. It was a great opportunity to meet people I’ve not had the chance to meet before from our various offices. It was an early start up in York for the cooking competition which was held at The Cookery School at The Grand Hotel. […]

Posted by Tina George
On 21st December 2023

DFC’S Inaugural New Starters Event

It’s been quite a whirlwind at DFC lately for our recruitment team and all of the staff involved in the preparations leading up to the inaugural DFC New Starters event. The event was held in Manchester for 14 of our newest team members: Apprentice, Trainee Engineer, Graduate Engineers, Associate, Senior Engineer, Engineer and Business Support. […]

Posted by Design Fire Consultant
On 25th October 2023

My First Year at DFC: Gretchen Xie

By: Gretchen Xie, Graduate Engineer September 2023 marks my first working anniversary at DFC! I’ve had a productive and fulfilling year as a graduate in fire engineering with the company, and I feel proud to have made an impact within the industry by using the fundamental fire science knowledge I gained from university. My story […]

Posted by Design Fire Consultant
On 18th October 2023

DFC’s CPD Event at the University of Edinburgh

By: Parina Patel, Associate The DFC team has recently returned from our annual CPD event at the University of Edinburgh. Run in conjunction with the University’s Fire Research Centre, this, our fifth event, was the sunniest one yet! The topic for this year’s sessions was Structural Fire Engineering and focussed on the following learning objectives: […]

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On 19th September 2023

Is External Fire Spread a B3 or B4 Issue?

By: Roy Little, Senior Associate and Francesca Ravenhill, Senior Engineer and Analyst. Is fire spread, via the external wall, a B3 or B4 issue, and can the two even be considered separately? Maybe the answer to these questions comes down to the method of fire spread, and where it spreads to? For reference requirements B3(3) and B4(1) from […]

Posted by Design Fire Consultant
On 16th August 2023

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