Ray is a Chartered Fire Engineer with 19 years’ experience in Fire Engineering who sits on the Board for Joule Group. He is primarily responsible for Joule Group’s Northern Ireland and Scotland offices but is also the key lead for the UKI Site Surveying Team and provides high level strategic input to the overall UKI Practice since its inception.
Ray leads strong technical teams to deliver large and complex projects throughout the UK, Ireland and worldwide with the primary focus to deliver on time and with quality, excellence, and innovation at the forefront of everything he does. He also leads consultation with local authorities, insurers, and other relevant stakeholders.
Ray specialises in the fire safety design of complex residential, mixed-use buildings, educational facilities, industrial/storage facilities and façade design/remediations. Ray is involved in advising government bodies in relation to external façade systems and in the development of advisory/specification documents for such bodies. Ray has also had extensive involvement with recladding schemes and has substantial experience in carrying out FRAEW using the PAS9980 methodology.
Ray is an accredited expert witness and has experience in preparing fire engineering expert witness reports for various fire safety matters.