Ian joined the IFE team back in 2022 as the Technical Advisor. With an extensive background as a fire engineer, Ian heads up the role of IFE’s UK government liaison to lead the institution’s work with the Home Office, Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the building safety regulator.

Ian has worked in the fire sector for over 30 years. Much of this time was spent in the fire and rescue service but he also specialised in the fire safety field early in his career. Ian has a wide range of experience in the sector with particular interest around evacuation lifts (particularly looking at the gap in guidance with residential premises), smoke control system design, CFD design, heritage premises and salvage plan design, firefighting tactics and systems and firefighting lifts, enforcement and legislation and planning and building control consultations.