The UK’s leading independent fire and risk consultants.

Fire Engineering Consultant

Here at OFR consultants, we are the UK’s leading independent fire and risk consultants, we are expert fire engineering consultants committed to delivering pre-eminent expertise to protect people, property, and the environment. We were founded in 2016 and in 6 short years we have grown from a two person start up to what is now the UK’s leading fire risk consultancy, before being established our founders Simon Lay and Sam Liptrott held senior management roles at global multi-disciplinary organisations, where they saw space in the market for a practice dedicated solely to fire engineering consultant with a focus on technical skills, but delivering those services to projects of all sizes and types.

This promising start up grew quickly, after founding the business in Manchester, work soon emerged across in the UK and Europe and the team began to grow, with bases in London and Scotland quickly established, the vision and dynamic of the business attracted more senior leaders form other multidisciplined organisations, including Ryan McCredie and Andy Passingham who joined the board of the business, which helped established additional bases in Yorkshire and the southwest.

We established a research team to carry out self-funded, governmental, and commercial studies into fundamental questions arising around fire safety and the feed state of the art technical solutions into the design process. At the other end of the spectrum, the team also expanded to include experts in the delivery of solutions in the construction environment, creating a full services capability.

Back when the business started, we had recruited 40 new colleagues, with a portfolio now spanning the entire world, with projects in far flung places like Cuba and Sri Lanka, no we are a firmly established business that was able to pivot with all shares being internalised and a rebranding which reiterated and independent nature of the team.

If you would like to use our fire engineering consultant, please don’t hesitate to contact us either by email (info@ofrconsultants.com) or by telephone (0330 995 0648), please ask us an questions you may have about the services we can provide for you and we will be happy to provide any and all information about our services and get you set up for a consultation so we can talk through the service you need whether it be fire strategy, construction, complex analyses, research, portfolio fire safety or expert witness, whatever you need we are here for you, we look forward to hearing from you.