Alex Webb

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About Alex Webb

Alex is Group Leader of the Victoria team which provides a wide ranges of consulting and testing services to the Infrastructure and construction sector from acoustics to durability. Fire safety is his passion with over 24 years experience in the fire safety industry working in a range of areas. He has a wealth of qualifications and technical skills in flammability of materials, facade fire safety, fire testing, rail safety, bushfire protection, fire dynamics, egress human behaviour in fire. He is a Registered Building Practitioner (EF) in Victoria, C10 Accredited Certifier, Fire Safety Engineering in NSW, a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) and Fire Safety Engineer in Malaysia. Alex has lead fire engineering design and implementation across a diverse range of building and infrastructure projects: high rise, commercial, residential, retail, multi – purpose complexes, airports, passenger trains, underground rail transport systems, rail and road tunnels. Specialties: Fire engineering and general fire safety Materials flammability and full scale fire testing Hot smoke testing Means of escape analysis Structural fire protection analysis Design of buildings for bushfire resilience Risk assessment Research and development in the field of fire safety science Alex is a guest lecturer on flammability and fire testing for “Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Building Fire Safety and Risk Engineering Management” course at Victoria University of Technology, Werribee. 2011- Present. CSIRO representative on the Australian Standards Committee since 2009 Committee FP18 – Fire Safety Committee FP23 – Tunnel Fire Safety Alex has attend ISO Technical Committee 92 Fire Safety as the Australian delegate since 2017 in both fire testing and fire engineering. He was Victorian Cladding taskforce expert panel and is currently involved in the building audit program. Co-author of the CSIRO "Fire Safety Guideline for external cladding, 2016".