Understanding a Fire Engineering Design Report
The functional relationship between a Fire Engineering Design Report (FEDR) and a building’s compliance schedule is a fundamental and frequently overlooked contributor to an IQP’s role.
A FEDR forms an integral part of the documentation detailing a building’s consent, construction and compliance history. As an IQP, you can use information contained in the building’s FEDR to inform decisions around how you conduct inspections, what you should expect to find and how you interpret features of the building.
FEDRs cover Clauses C1 – C6 of the Building Code, and as such have implications for IQPs in terms of intended fire design and specified systems. As both the FEDR and the building’s compliance schedule are living documents, knowledge of the fire strategy and design that have been specified in the FEDR will allow an IQP to be adequately prepared for site inspections and be equipped to recognise where deviations and/or replacements that may affect compliance have been incorporated into the building’s final construction and use.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
• Understand the fire-specific information that leads to particular construction decisions
• Extract essential information and recognise specified systems from a FEDR to inform the IQP inspection process
• Trace the requirement for specified systems from legislation, through standards, to installation and commissioning
• Recognise a FEDR as a living document throughout the lifetime of the building.
The cost of the workshop for members is $695.00 +GST
The cost of the workshop for non-members is $795.00 +GST
ABCTech training workshops offered by the Association of Building Compliance (ABC) are intended for introductory or refresher CPD only. While these workshops provide valuable educational support and technical information, it is not designed to replace formal qualifications or certifications however they are designed to complement them. Completion of our training does not grant certification as an Independently Qualified Person (IQP) or other professional designations but can be used in evidence to support an application.
Our Presenter
Trent Fearnley has over 26 years of experience in the fire industry and the education industry, from firefighting to fire
investigator to fire risk management and fire engineering. Trent brings his vast experience and capabilities from his previous roles as National Advisor Fire Risk Management in Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ), Developer and Subject Matter Expert for the NZ Diploma in Fire Engineering at the Open Polytechnic of NZ to the role of Technical Director to support and grow
the skills of our Association.
Trent’s current roles as Director of the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) and Board Member of Vocational Engineering Education NZ also provide key relationships and knowledge of the education sector to the role. The landscape of Safety Critical Work is changing and we want to prepare our members for any changes that may happen. Trent has been involved in the changes introduced by the Reform of Vocational Education and we wish to utilise his knowledge to benefit our members.
