Fire Engineering


Performance-based design approach in the Building Code of Australia (BCA) creates major opportunities in the delivery of cost-effective and innovative design solutions. Umow Lai, one of the leaders in Fire Engineering in Australia, has assisted many clients to take full advantage of this opportunity, and has successfully completed numerous fire engineering studies for major projects spanning a wide spectrum of building types.

Umow Lai's Fire Engineers, registered in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania, possess expertise in flammability testing, smoke detection and behaviour of structural elements in fire conditions. The focus of the Fire Engineering team is to deliver practical, integrated and safe design solutions.

Our Fire Engineering team members have published extensively in peer reviewed international journals and presented at conferences relating to fire safety. Our Fire Safety Consultants have received awards in the field of fire engineering, and have lectured in post-graduate fire engineering courses.

Areas of Expertise

  • Alternative fire-engineering performance-based design
  • Qualitative and quantitative fire risk assessments
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) fire modelling
  • Smoke flow analysis
  • Heat transfer analysis
  • Occupant evacuation simulation
  • Structural behaviour analysis
  • Investigation of Fire Safety issues
  • Fire Safety Audits
  • Development of fire safety strategy and management plan
  • Undertake collaborative research projects related to fire safety