ProAct understands clients’ needs and priorities.
Our dedicated Fire Engineers continuously strive to be the trusted Fire Safety advisors in today’s dynamic project environment.
We deliver our services with over 30 years of specialist experience in all aspects of Fire Safety.
Fire Engineering Expertise Serving Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria
Mark Anderson
Director
Mark has a Degree in Fire and Risk Engineering from Glasgow Caledonian University and is a Chartered Professional Engineer RPEQ, C10.
He brings over 30 years experience in the industry to ProAct in fire safety, fire risk, fire protection engineering including experience in compliance issues.
Mark has worked with the best in the world fire safety teams, such as WSP and AECOM, both in the UK and Australia, dealing with large prestigious projects like Cleveland Clinic Dubai, and the Queensland Children’s Hospital Brisbane.
Recently Mark undertook numerous combustible cladding audits in Queensland. Mark’s experience has allowed him to develop innovative design solutions to collaboratively improve safety in design, in conjunction with architects and builders which ensures that his projects are delivered to the client on time and on budget.
He also sits on the Building and Development Dispute Resolution Tribunal for Queensland Government and Strata Communities Australia (SCA).
Mark is passionate about the industry. He is a member of the Queensland regional committee, for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Mark also gives up his spare time to write technical articles for RICS, and referees articles for the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE).
Alex Zhu
Associate Director
Alex has worked on a broad spectrum of large-scale projects across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands involving high-rise offices, hotels and residential buildings, public transport stations, hospitals, warehouses, factories, sports centres and convention centres.
Registered with Engineers Australia as a Professional Engineer, Alex brings over 10 years of consulting experience as a senior Fire Engineering professional.
Both client-focused and project-focused, Alex not only helps the client to achieve the stakeholder key expectations, but also adding values to the project outcomes.
Alex has a Master of Engineering Studies in Fire Engineering from the University of Canterbury and a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New South Wales.
Alex’s experience has allowed him to develop a strong background in fire engineering designs with a particular expertise in CFD modellings and evacuations, performance-based designs and construction monitoring.