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Landmark performing-arts venue

Dr Mohammad Ghaffari · Arup · 2025 to now · Industry

Context

A landmark performing-arts venue operating continuously under heritage constraints, with decades of layered fire safety systems. The annual fire safety statement here is not paperwork. It is a genuine engineering audit of how every essential measure actually performs.

My role

I was the fire safety engineer assessing essential fire safety measures for annual certification: site verification, performance review, and remediation advice.

Approach

  • Site verification of essential fire safety measures across the venue.
  • Review of the performance standards each installed measure must meet.
  • Identification of gaps and prioritised, practical remediation advice.
  • Coordination with facilities management around a continuously operating venue.

Outcome

A defensible annual assessment that keeps a nationally significant building certified and safe without interrupting its operation.

  • Essential fire safety measures
  • AFSS
  • Site inspection
  • Heritage constraints

Commercial project. Details generalised.