At ProAct, we are dedicated to developing the best tailored fire safety strategies for buildings, infrastructure, and industrial facilities across Sydney and Greater Sydney.
With over 30 years of specialist expertise and up-to-date knowledge, ProAct Fire Engineers provide expert fire safety engineering advice and strategies.
ProAct Fire Engineers provide a comprehensive suite of Fire Engineering solutions across Sydney and New South Wales.
We expertly investigate and assess fire risks to develop compliant, bespoke fire safety strategies, tailored for your project.
By determining optimal fire safety measures to improve building fire resistance, smoke management, evacuation performance and emergency egress design, we are able to advocate the best performance solution that will maximise your building’s potential, whilst minimising project costs, to deliver the best outcome for your project.
As we develop the best solution for each building, we ensure compliance and regulatory requirements are met, without compromising design principles.
The ProAct Edge.
Our years of experience helps us take a more creative approach to fire safety design when developing fire-engineered performance solutions that will achieve compliance cost-effectively.
Our Services.
Fire Engineering Services and Advice delivered across Sydney and Greater Sydney throughout New South Wales
BCA FIRE SAFETY
ProAct are specialists in BCA Fire Safety reviews on non-compliances and identifying performance-based solutions, to achieve required compliance levels per NCC performance requirements.
- BCA Assessment
- BCA Report
Performance-based Solution
The ProAct team has extensive experience in creative and innovative Performance-based, Fire Safety Engineering solutions that complies with the National Construction Code of Australia (NCC).
- Fire Engineering Brief (FEB)
- Fire Engineering Report (FER)
Fire Safety due diligence
ProAct’s experienced Fire Engineers offer services in:-
- Technical Due Diligence building compliance reviews (TDD)
- Fire Safety surveys
- Fire Wall Inspection
Risk Assessment
ProAct provides Combustible Cladding Audit Inspection and Report services including:-
- Collection of cladding material samples for testing
- Building Fire Safety Risk Assessment (BFSRA) report.
- Fire Engineering Solutions for Waste Fire Prevention
bushfire engineering
With specialist fire-safety expertise, ProAct Fire Engineers develop effective and tailored bushfire engineering solutions to help property owners meet bushfire planning, design and compliance requirements :-
- BAL Assessment
- Bushfire Safety Performance Solution
- Bushfire Hazard Management Plans (BHMP)
- Bushfire Hazard Report
- Bushfire Protection Design
complex computer modelling
Computational Fluid Dynamics | CFD and Zone Modelling technologies are widely used as analysis tools in proving the validity of fire strategies and fire engineered designs.
ProAct Fire Engineers have over 15 years’ experience using CFD and Zone modelling technologies as a key tool in the design of fire systems.
Our People. Experienced & Trusted.
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.
Choose ProAct.
Expertise in wide range of buildings
High-rise residential, commercial, large retail, warehouse and workshop buildings and mixed use buildings.
Over 30 years experience
in Fire Safety, Fire Risk Assessments, Bushfire Engineering and BCA Compliance.
Depth of knowledge
with innovative design solutions in conjunction with architects and builders.