Ahmed Elsharkawi

Graduate Fire Engineer @Ashton Fire

Birmingham, GB

Develop fire safety strategies and engineering solutions for a wide range of building types.• Ensure designs align with clients’ visions while achieving compliance with relevant fire safety standards and guidance such as BS BS BS 7974, ADB, Building Regulations, and the Building Safety Act.• Produce detailed technical reports outlining design assumptions, methodologies, results, and recommendations, ensuring clear rationale and traceability of engineering decisions.• Perform structural fire engineering assessments in accordance with British Standards and Eurocodes, optimising fire resistance requirements through numerical analysis and finite element modelling (FEA) using software such as SAFIR.• Develop performance-based fire designs using modelling tools such as Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) and PyroSim to analyse fire growth, smoke spread, and tenability conditions, and Pathfinder for evacuation modelling, including ASET–RSET analysis and two zone model using B-Risk.