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CONTACT US


Phone: +61 (0)7 3077 6770

Fax: +61 (0)7 3077 6769

Email: enquiry@staceyagnew.com

Address: Unit 4, 35 Limestone Street,

Darra, Queensland 4076, Australia

Fire Engineering




Fire engineering is all about protecting life and assets from fire through the application of the core sciences; physics, chemistry, mathematics, and psychology. Many years ago, when our mechanical, aerospace and fluid dynamic backgrounds led us into fire work, we were bemused by the term “performance-based” to describe a design approach. The implication is that there exists a legitimate design approach that did not have regard to performance. Of course the term is all about building approvals and the alternative was deemed-to-satisfy code-following (which does not always provide the anticipated “performance”). “Fire engineering” is also sometimes taken to describe a recipe-driven approach to analysis and reporting, which can become just as prescriptive as code-following. Whether there are codes involved or not, Stacey Agnew applies scientific knowledge, mathematics, ingenuity and plain common sense to clearly understand the issues and develop solutions for technical problems. That is; we do real engineering in connection with fire issues. We do this whether there are also codes involved or not. That is what we mean by “fire engineering”. Stacey Agnew has extensive experience in the fire engineering of transport infrastructure (underground road, rail and bus spaces), in industrial and mining contexts, and for cable tunnels.  We can also provide advice on operational and response aspects, as they relate to fire life safety and risk.

Stacey Agnew’s services in fire engineering include:

  • Quantitative and qualitative risk assessment
  • Egress assessment
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (smoke and ventilation modelling)
  • Assessment of fire hazard and ‘design’ fires (trains, buses, cases, machinery, etc)
  • Systems commissioning
  • Forensic analysis including arson investigation
  • Independent Peer Review

Conrad Stacey and Nick Agnew are registered fire and mechanical engineers on the National Professional Engineers Register (NPER). Conrad is on the Australian Standards Committee for Australian Standard 4825; Tunnel Fire Safety. Nick is also an IPENZ registered fire engineer in New Zealand. Nick and Conrad have experience working within a number of jurisdictions in Australia and abroad including New Zealand, New York, Pennsylvania and India.


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