What Fire Engineering Professionals Pty Ltd does

Fire Engineering Professionals Pty Ltd (trading as FEP) is a privately-held Australian fire safety engineering consultancy headquartered in Chatswood, New South Wales, founded in 2006 and operating with approximately nine staff. The firm provides performance-based fire engineering solutions across two service lines: Built Environment Fire Engineering, covering commercial, residential, retail, institutional, recreational, industrial, and governmental building projects from pre-development through final occupation; and Mining Fire Engineering, delivering specialized fire protection services for iron ore, coal, copper, diamond, and rare earth operations including port and rail infrastructure.

The company's technical offering rests on computational fire and smoke modelling (using Pyrosim CFD) and occupant evacuation modelling (using Pathfinder Egress), supplemented by hazard analysis, consequence modelling for industrial facilities, compliance audits, annual fire safety statements, and peer review services. Director Dr. Atul Bhargava, who holds a PhD in fire safety and is a Registered Fire Safety Engineer in NSW, Victoria, and Queensland, leads technical delivery alongside Associate Rob Taylor (Accredified Certifier) and a team of qualified fire safety engineers.

FEP generates revenue through project-based professional services fees on a quote-based model, with no publicly disclosed pricing. Customers are predominantly enterprise and government, including Rio Tinto (across multiple Pilbara operations), BHP, Glencore, Westfield, ANZ Bank, Delta Electricity, ESSO, and transport infrastructure authorities in NSW. The go-to-market is sales-led through direct client engagement, reputation, professional networks, and regulatory relationships rather than digital marketing, with international project work extending to jurisdictions including Colombia, South Africa, Madagascar, Chile, Mongolia, and Hong Kong.

Name

Fire Engineering Professionals Pty Ltd

Legal name

Fire Engineering Professionals Pty Ltd

Website

https://fireep.com.au

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fire Engineering Professionals Pty Ltd is an Australian fire safety engineering consultancy providing performance-based fire engineering, CFD modelling, and evacuation analysis to building, mining, industrial, and infrastructure clients including Rio Tinto, BHP, and Glencore.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fire Safety Engineering Consulting

NAICS

Engineering Services (54133), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Fire & Life Safety Services (Inspection/Testing/Sprinklers/Alarms) (IMAIAAAI)

Keywords

• Fire safety engineering
• Performance-based fire design
• Mining fire protection
• Building code compliance
• CFD smoke modeling

Headquarters

HQ city

Chatswood

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Fire Engineering Consulting Services: Project-based professional consulting services for fire engineering design, hazard analysis, risk evaluation, and compliance assessments across residential, commercial, industrial, and mining sectors.
2. Fire Safety Audits and Compliance Services: Compliance audits, annual fire safety statements, and due diligence assessments for building owners and developers.
3. Mining Fire Protection Services: Specialized fire protection services for mining operations including conceptual design advice, design review, hot work permits, baseline data development, fire risk assessments, and maintenance contracts.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Fire Engineering Professionals is a fire safety engineering consultancy that provides performance-based fire engineering design, hazard analysis, risk evaluation and code compliance services for the building, construction, mining and industrial sectors. Services span the full project lifecycle from pre-development through final sign-off and ongoing risk assessments, covering residential, retail, commercial, recreational, institutional, industrial and governmental projects, as well as specialised fire protection services for mining, railway, port, power distribution and warehousing facilities.

Product overview

Fire Engineering Professionals offers two primary service lines: Built Environment Fire Engineering Services and Mining Fire Engineering Services. The Built Environment division provides performance-based fire engineering for commercial, residential, retail, institutional, recreational, industrial, and governmental projects, including code compliance, fire safety studies, audits, and peer reviews. The Mining division specializes in fire protection for mining operations, mineral processing, port and rail infrastructure, and power/hydrocarbon facilities, covering conceptual design through to fire risk registers and impairment permits. Both divisions leverage technical capabilities in CFD Fire and Smoke Modelling and Evacuation Modelling using software tools including Pyrosim CFD and Pathfinder Egress for computational analysis.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Built Environment Fire Engineering Services Performance-based fire engineering design, fire safety assessments and code compliance services for residential, retail, commercial, institutional, recreational, industrial and governmental building projects, delivered from pre-development through final occupation and including ongoing risk and upgrade assessments. Target customers are building developers, property owners, retail operators, healthcare/aged care providers, banks and government entities.
• Mining Fire Engineering Services Specialised fire engineering and fire protection services for mining and mineral processing operations, covering conceptual design advice, design review, hot work permits, fire risk assessments, fire risk registers, fire impairment permits, fire systems maintenance contracts and fire protection standards for mining, port and rail infrastructure. Target customers are iron ore, coal, copper, diamond and rare earth mining operators and their infrastructure (port, rail, processing) sites.
• Code Compliance Services Performance solutions demonstrating compliance with the Building Code of Australia, drawing on International Building Codes, NFPA, Factory Mutual Guidelines and loss prevention guidelines. For building developers, owners and approval authorities requiring documented compliance with Australian and international fire safety standards.
• Special Hazard and Fire Safety Studies Hazard studies for major infrastructure and special hazard facilities that identify facility-specific hazards and risks and provide cost-effective solutions addressing those risks while ensuring occupant safety and minimising business interruption. For operators of power generation, petrochemical, warehousing, mining and other special hazard industrial facilities.
• Compliance Audits and Annual Fire Safety Statements Compliance audits of existing buildings against fire engineering requirements as part of due diligence for building extensions or redevelopments, plus annual building reviews that identify life safety or property protection issues and produce annual fire safety statements. For building owners, facility managers, property investors and approval authorities.
• Peer Reviews Third-party peer review of fire engineering design solutions, challenging designs for robustness and flexibility and acting as technical advisors to ensure all design alternatives are considered for optimal project outcomes. For project principals, developers, approval authorities and other engineering consultants seeking independent technical review.

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with a fire engineering capability serving mining, transport, energy and built-environment clients in Australia. AECOM competes with FEP for mining and infrastructure fire risk assessment work and can bundle fire scope with broader engineering packages.
• Arup: Global multidisciplinary engineering consultancy with a large, established fire engineering practice serving buildings, infrastructure and industrial clients. Arup competes with FEP on complex performance-based fire engineering briefs and offers full multidisciplinary delivery that FEP cannot match on the largest tenders.
• WSP: Global engineering professional services firm with a fire and life safety practice across Australia. WSP competes with FEP on building code compliance, performance-based design and fire safety audits for commercial, transport and industrial assets.
• Aurecon: Major Australian-headquartered engineering consultancy with a dedicated fire engineering team covering buildings, transport, energy and resources. Aurecon is a direct competitor on Australian built-environment and infrastructure fire safety work and brings deeper bench and multidisciplinary scale.

Direct peers

• Warringtonfire: Dedicated fire engineering and fire testing consultancy with a strong Australian presence (formerly part of the Warringtonfire/Exova group). Warringtonfire directly competes with FEP on performance-based fire engineering, code compliance and fire safety assessments across buildings and infrastructure.
• Jensen Hughes: Specialist global fire and life safety engineering consultancy offering performance-based fire design, CFD modelling and risk assessment. Jensen Hughes is one of the closest pure-play comparables to FEP's technical offering, albeit at significantly larger scale and global reach.
• BG&E: Australian engineering consultancy with a fire engineering capability serving buildings, transport and resources clients. BG&E competes with FEP on Australian built-environment and infrastructure fire safety projects and offers comparable performance-based design services.
• Norman Disney Young: Australian building services and fire engineering consultancy providing performance-based fire safety design, CFD modelling and code compliance. NDY is a close direct peer to FEP on Australian built-environment fire engineering work.
• Holmes Australia (part of Hydrock): Specialist fire engineering consultancy with a long-established Australian practice focused on performance-based fire engineering and CFD modelling. Holmes is a direct competitor to FEP on complex, performance-based briefs for buildings and infrastructure.

Emerging players

• Affinity Fire Engineering: Australian specialist fire engineering consultancy focused on performance-based design and fire safety assessments. Affinity is a smaller, niche competitor serving a similar Australian built-environment client base to FEP.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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