Team & Expertise
PTL Fire Team comprises a team of structural fire engineers and fire safety engineers:
-Andy Buchanan (CPEng, Auckland PSA)
-Pierre-Jacques Gandino (CPEng, Auckland PSA)
-Dennis Pau (CPEng, Auckland PSA)
-Ezra You
-Cameron Douglas
Bridging the gap between Structural and Fire, PTL offers comprehensive structural fire and fire safety engineering services – a coordinated approach from Conceptual through to Completion – to create fire-safe buildings that are functional, cost-effective, aesthetic, eco-friendly and resilience.
PTL Fire Services
Mass Timber Fire Safety
PTL are NZ leading expert on Structural and Fire of mass timber building designs.
PTL applies state-of-the-art knowledge on mass timber fire safety to guide your projects through feasible compliance pathway.
Fire Safety Engineering
PTL delivers prescriptive or performance-based fire engineering design to create fire-safe buildings.
-Acceptable Solution C/AS2
-Verification Method C/VM2
-Alternative Solution
Fire Peer Review
PTL provides constructive peer review process that efficiently resolves fire engineering challenges.
PTL knowledge and experience in Structural and Fire of building add values to your projects.
Passive Fire Protection
PTL knowledge in building fire spread and fire stopping products assists you in developing compliance fire stopping solutions for different fire scenarios.
-Façade cavity
-Services penetrations
-Structural penetrations
-Building gaps
Structural Fire Engineering
PTL leverages the inherent performance of structural systems to optimise extent of fire protection to structures.
-Optimising structural fire performance of hybrid/steel/timber structures
-Providing cost-saving to passive fire protection (reducing intumescent paint, board protection etc.)
-Demonstrating code compliance to NZBC
Research & Development
PTL knowledge and experience in fire research and testing assists you in finding/designing solutions to complex fire scenarios.
-Standard furnace/compartment fire performance for structures
-Cone calorimeter burning behaviour of surface linings
-Numerical analysis to assess insulation performance of structural elements/building partitions
Beside our core services, PTL also provides specialist knowledge in the following construction fields:
Expertise
- Office buildings
- Houses and apartments
- Educational structures
- Tall timber buildings
- Auditoriums, industrial and large retail construction
- Timber bridges
- Innovative low-damage technologies
