SME UK Enterprise Awards 2024/ 64 Most Trusted Specialist Fire Consultancy 2024 From design to construction, Delta Fire Engineering Ltd provides fire engineering support and consultancy services to building designers and architects. The firm is passionate about applying pragmatic solutions to fire engineering problems and committed to helping clients realise their fire safety goals. Skilled, experienced, and highly qualified, the team provides cost-effective solutions that meet the 'functional requirements' of building regulations. We speak to Joe Hart and find out more in the wake of the company’s award win in the UK Enterprise Awards 2024. Delta Fire Engineering Ltd (Delta) is a specialist engineering consultancy business providing fire safety services to clients across the UK. Within the team of industry-leading professionals, the firm covers all aspects of fire safety during the building lifecycle, from the design of buildings and construction site monitoring to sign-off inspections of key fire safety critical design features. Delta also provides in-use fire safety services such as fire risk assessment, fire training and surveys of existing construction to ensure that all advice is maintained from the early design stages right the way through to occupation of the building. Joe Hart, the Founder and Director of Delta, tells us more about the three core values that underpin everything the company does. “We’re client-focused, committed to quality, and passionate about innovation,” he begins. “These three values are embodied in all of our projects and interactions with clients.” The fire safety industry is changing rapidly in the UK with key legislation changes still occurring following the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017. Within the UK market right now there are huge opportunities to be a part of that change and Delta is working with partners across the market to foster this change in projects. “We have recently invested heavily in the opening of our own dedicated research lab, in Preston,” continues Joe. “Which is used both commercially as a fire testing facility and as a non-profit research lab to give back to the industry.” Delta utilises this research lab (called the Fire Research Centre) to research emerging fire safety hazards and, through this, it actively contributes to the wider fire science research community. All staff are fully engaged in research with real-world impact alongside the company’s consultancy work, and this is what allows it to stay at the forefront of the industry and to really deliver for clients. The business upholds the highest ethics in every decision that it makes when it comes to design or risk assessing fire safety in buildings. All dedicated members of the Delta team are assessed against their ethics and beliefs in the core values, and Joe tells us that he is always on the lookout for fire safety professionals whose beliefs align with the company – that protection from fire should be a basic human right. Recently, due to this unwavering commitment to ensuring fire safety is at the forefront of everyone’s mind, Delta gained notable recognition in the UK Enterprise Awards 2024 and clinched the title of Most Trusted Specialist Fire Consultancy 2024 for its efforts. So, what does the future look like for Joe and the team at Delta? Well, the firm is already underway with launching a number of new service offerings in 2024, including a fire testing business, based at the Fire Research Centre, which will specialise in assessing products and issuing test certificates to allow those products to be sold on the UK market. Joe has also been busy establishing a dedicated training business – Delta Fire Training – designed to provide expert-led training courses on all aspects of fire safety. Finally, another new business launch that will happen later in 2024 is the launch of Delta Safety Supplies - an e-commerce site supplying fire safety equipment to the industry and the general public. The USP of the e-commerce site is the expert helpdesk that sits behind it - Delta Fire Engineering will provide guidance around how to choose the most appropriate products based on a customer's specific needs, as Joe has found through market research that product literature and marketing is so often misrepresenting the true application of safety equipment. “Through Delta Safety Supplies we aim to provide high quality safety equipment, fully aligned with the core values of all Delta businesses, whilst supporting customer decision-making with our existing team of inhouse fire safety experts.” Contact Details Company: Delta Fire Engineering Ltd Web Address: www.deltafireengineering.co.uk
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