Claire Smyth

Chartered Fire Engineer and Safety Management Consultant

Biography

Claire is a self-employed Chartered Fire Engineer and Safety Management Consultant. Having qualified as a Civil Engineer from Trinity College Dublin, she started her career as a Fire Prevention Officer in Dublin Fire Brigade. Over the years she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Fire Safety Practice in Trinity College Dublin, a Masters in Health and Safety Management in DCU and a Masters in Fire and Explosion Engineers in the University of Leeds. Claire works as part of design teams for new-build projects, but it is her work on existing buildings that is more relevant to today’s seminar. She frequently undertakes Fire Safety Assessments for clients, preparing schedules of remedial works to achieve compliance with relevant guidance, assisting in the preparation of detailed specifications for these works usually with the assistance of a Building Surveyor, and overseeing the implementation of these works during the construction phase.