"CLEARING THE AIR" - SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
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John
Barnfield Eur Ing, BSc, CEng, MIChemE,
MIFireE is a Director of Tenos Fire Safety
Engineering Consultants.
Since graduating as a chemical engineer, John
has worked continuously in the field of fire safety engineering. He worked
initially for the Fire Technology Group of the Greater London Council, where
he provided technical support to the London Fire Brigade and District
Surveyors.
John then moved into the private sector and
headed a fire safety consultancy team before founding Tenos Fire Safety Engineering
in 1996.
John has been responsible for the fire
engineering design of a wide range of buildings, both in the UK and
overseas. These include sports stadia, hospitals, shopping centres, Bahrain's World Trade Centre and the worlds
tallest hotel, Dubai's
landmark Burj Al Arab.
In addition to design consultancy work, John
has been involved in the preparation of various British Standards including BS
7974 (Fire Safety Engineering), BS 5588: Part 7 (Atrium Buildings) and
CIBSE Guide E.
Paul Compton BSc, MBA, C
Eng, MCIBSE, MASHRAE is
Technical Director at Colt. He has worked in the building industry for about 30
years, with 25 of those spent at Colt.
Paul has
extensive experience in the design, application and performance of smoke control
systems. He is an active long term member of British (BSI), European (CEN) and
American (NFPA) smoke control standards committees.
Paul has
been a member of CIBSE for about 20 years and served on the CIBSE Publications
Committee for many years. He was also chairman of the task groups that produced
the recent CIBSE Guides C and B1.
Ian Doncaster BTech (Hons) MPhil MBA CEng MIMechE is Chief Designer at
Colt. He has 25 years experience of design, development, project management and
manufacturing in building services and mechanical engineering.
Ian has extensive experience in the design,
application and performance of smoke control systems. He is currently working
on product development for the next generation of shaft systems and developing
car park monitoring to enable efficient operation of installations.
Miller
Hannah
graduated in 1991 from the University
of Strathclyde with a BEng (Hons)
in Building Design Engineering. He went to work for Warrington Fire Research
Consultants on a new British Standard for Fire Engineering. This is now
published as "BS 7974: Application of fire safety engineering principles to the
design of buildings." Miller put these principles into practice via several
consultancy projects including Millennium Stadium in Cardiff,
Manchester United North Stand, Midsummer Place in Milton Keynes, Docklands Campus,
University of East
London and regional distribution centres for Argos and Tesco.
Miller then worked at Tenos
Fire Safety Engineering before joining Hoare Lea in 2000 to establish the Fire Engineering Group. The
group focuses exclusively on fire engineering and uses modern computational
techniques to examine smoke development, people movement and structural
response in fires. Employing 15 fire engineers, the group has completed
projects for the UK's
leading developers and clients. These include a 750,000 ft² office for Hammerson
in Spitalfields, Bank of America's Headquarters in Canary Wharf
and Accenture's headquarters in Southwark.
Hoare Lea is a major player in the residential
sector and has worked on over 200 projects including Pan
Peninsula in London's Docklands. When completed this will
be the tallest residential building in Europe.
Miller is currently working on the ExCel Exhibition Centre, London; Woodwharf Masterplan for Canary Wharf and Ballymore; Broadmead Retail Centre, Bristol; and the British Army Headquarters in Andover.
Conor Logan BSc (Hons) AMIMechE is Principal Design Engineer at Colt.
He has been with Colt since 1987, designing smoke control
systems for almost all of that period. He was Technical Manager of Colt
Ventilation East Asia Pte Ltd at its formation and has also worked as a Fire
Engineering Consultant with International Fire Technology.
Conor has extensive experience in the design, application and
performance of smoke control systems and is an active member of the Smoke
Control Association, currently sitting on committees writing guidance
documents for Smoke Control in Apartment Buildings and also for Service Yards, Loading Bays and Coach Parks.
David
Mowatt is General Manager for Colt's Smoke Control Division. During
his past 22 years with the company he has designed smoke control systems
for some of the UK's major shopping centres, as well as providing
technical sales. Over the past 4 years David has led the expansion of
Colt's smoke control portfolio to include underground car parks and
residential applications.
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