expert advice - responsive service - timely delivery
Rapidfire™ delivers client-focused fire engineering design services.
We provide the right advice from the start, offering innovative solutions or valuable critique at any stage throughout your project. At Rapidfire™ we pride ourselves on being accessible, responsive, and timely in the delivery of our advice and services; complementing your project vision with efficiency and pragmatism.
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services
FIRE ENGINEERING DESIGN
We undertake accepted solution or performance-based design to cater for atypical and complex buildings; individualised to your requirements and design vision.
Rapidfire undertakes complex fire, smoke, and egress modelling to support performance based design, and can provide fire engineering reports for Building Consent requirements
acceptable solution, verification method and alternative solutions
STRATEGIC
ADVICE
Rapidfire offers expert advice at any stage of your project.
Engaging Rapidfire from from project inception affords additional advantages including design flexibility, conceptual continuity, and cost management
pre-concept design, due diligence phase - before or after site acquisition
DUE
DILIGENCE
Are you going to be able to use your building for its intended purpose? It is essential before any property acquisition due diligence is undertaken to answer this question.
Rapidfire can ascertain potential design or use restrictions from a fire perspective, and help identify upgrades or changes required to ensure your project's success.
regulatory review to assess Building Code compliance
PASSIVE FIRE SPECIFICATION
Protection of life and property is the basis of inherent passive fire engineering design
Our industry-leading passive fire safety systems can be incorporated in the design stages of your project, reducing construction times and delivering you a safer building
design and specification of fire-stopping systems
CONSTRUCTION MONITORING
Rapidfire can oversee your construction phase to support attainments of a producer statement.
Rapidfire provides efficient peer review services where peer review is required by Council to check Building Code compliance.
site observation, reporting, and sign off of fire safety requirements
about
Director - Tony Manning
BE(Hons), MEngSt(Fire), CMEngNZ, CPEng
Rapidfire™ was founded in 2019, growing with a vision to providing proactive, industry-leading engineering consultancy, while acknowledging both the professional and personal aspects of its employees and their families.
Tony focuses on adding value to projects by understanding clients' needs, identifying and reducing project risk; altogether while maintaining the overarching architectural vision and balancing costs.
With a career spanning over a decade in the NZ design and building industry, Tony is highly sought after with wide-ranging experience across commercial, industrial, retail, education, and residential fire engineering design. Tony is proficient at both the Acceptable Solutions (C/ASx) and Verification Method (C/VM2), as well as elements of performance-based design. Tony is a Chartered Member of Engineering New Zealand (EngNZ) and a Member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineering (SFPE) NZ Chapter.
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