Institution of Fire EngineersBoard of Directors
Peter Holland CBE OStJ QFSM FIFireE
Peter was awarded the CBE in the 2010 New Year`s Honours for services to local government.
Reason for joining the IFE: To provide personal and professional development above and beyond that received within the training and education provided by the Fire and Rescue Service to help raise his knowledge and understanding of Fire Engineering and Management issues
Portfolio responsibilities on the IFE Board: Chairman, IFE Board of Directors responsible for Finance and Management.
John Woodcock BSc (Eng) CEng FIFireE
After 21 years with Marsh, John retired in March 2008. When he retired, he was the Managing Director in Marsh Risk Consulting; the largest practice of which is property risk engineering and fire engineering.
Formerly, John worked for 12 years as Loss Prevention Engineer and various management roles with Factory Mutual, now FM Global.
Reason for joining the IFE: Originally a member of the UK Chapter SFPE, then Institute of Fire Safety (IFS) and then IFE. The Institution is the professional body which should be the 'voice of the fire professional' internationally and he wants to see that become a reality. The IFE also provided John a route to obtain registration as CEng with the Engineering Council (UK).
Portfolio responsibilities on the IFE Board: John is International President.
Mr Roy Bishop OBE QFSM FIFireE
Roy is Director of Training for AssetCo Fire and Rescue, before that Roy served for over 30yrs in the London Fire Brigade, concluding his career as Deputy Commissioner. A position he held for nine years giving him responsibility for 6500 staff and 112 fire stations. His directorate had an annual budget of £250 million and performed a wide range of functions including: Operations, Community Safety, Regulatory Fire Safety, Equalities, Command and Mobilising (Dispatch).
Roy spent five years in charge of training and development for the London Fire Brigade and was involved in the implementation of IPDS. He is keen to ensure the IFE has a voice and input into future qualifications in the fire service.
Roy has spent considerable time working with specialist fire engineers looking at the impact of modern methods of construction. He feels this is another area where his experience could be of benefit to the institution.
Reason for joining the IFE: Roy joined the IFE as a means of aiding his own personal development and as a way of learning more about his chosen profession. This initial motivation has grown into recognition that the IFE provides a unique method of promoting education and understanding across a range of Fire Engineering and management issues.
Louise Craig BA (Hons) TQFE MSc
Louise joined the IFE team in Moreton-in-Marsh in December 2005 and was appointed CEO in 2008.
Portfolio responsibilities on the IFE Board: Chief Executive Officer and Company Secretary
Mr Brian Davey MIFireE
Brian joined the New Zealand Fire Service as a career fire-fighter in 1972. He has served in all operational positions including Chief Fire Officer and Area Commander and is currently holding the position of National Manager, Operational Standards. This position is responsible for operational policy, operational procedures and liaison with a number of Government Departments. Since his appointment to the NZFS National Headquarters, he has been a member of the National Safety and Wellbeing Committee, National Training Standards Committee, the Business Excellence Group and the Fire and Rescue Service Industry Training Organisation, training advisory group. He has also been a member of and chaired a number of committees for Standards NZ.
He gained his Graduate membership in 1970 and Membership in 1973. He has served as a Branch Councillor on the New Zealand Branch through three terms, has had the role of Executive director for the Branch and served as Branch President from 2007 until 2010.
Reason for joining the IFE: Membership of the institution was to extend his technical knowledge as a young firefighter to better understand the behaviour of fire and firefighting operations. The study and examinations provided a point of difference that assisted with promotions through his career. The desire for learning has enabled him to use his technical knowledge to influence management and business decisions both within and externally to the Fire Service.
Mr Andrew Goves MA MSc LLB (Hons) FIFireE
Andy Goves was born, educated and started his career that now spans over 41 years in Public Service, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
After working in Wycombe General Hospital and Buckinghamshire Ambulance Service, he joined Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service in 1974, training in Reigate, Surrey. He was then posted to his home town of High Wycombe, where he served both as an Operational Firefighter and Fire Safety Officer, rising through the ranks to Sub Officer. During this time, he was involved in many high profile incidents including the multi-fatality Seer Green train crash in December 1981. In 1982 on promotion to Station Officer, he was transferred to Divisional headquarters at Aylesbury, where he worked in Fire Safety and Operations.
Promotion to Assistant Divisional Officer in 1986 saw him seconded to the national Fire Service College at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, where he was a member of the Directing Staff specialising in teaching Fire Prevention legislation and Fire Investigation. He taught over 2000 students from the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and the United Arab Emirates during his two-year secondment. He lectured at the Home Office Crime Prevention College and the Army School of Ammunition at Kineton.
At the end of his secondment in 1988, Andy returned to his home town of High Wycombe as Area Commander in charge of four fire stations. On promotion to Divisional Officer, he transferred to the Brigade Headquarters, where he continued to rise through the ranks to Deputy Chief Fire Officer in August 2000. During this time, he commanded many operational incidents at "Gold" command level, notably widespread floods and major chemical and industrial fires with risk of extensive public evacuation.
Between 1994 and 1998, he managed to combine his career and home life with a four-year intensive study period studying law part-time at the University of Buckingham, gaining an LLB(Hons) 2.1 upper division.
In 1999, he successfully completed the Extended Interview procedure for selection to the Brigade Command Course at the Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh. The course was then a pre-requisite for appointment as a Chief Fire Officer in England and Wales. His 14-month study programme at Masters level included research both in the United Kingdom and Sweden on firefighting tactics in Very Large Single Storey Buildings. His research in this field led to him being awarded the prestigious Gore Technology Scholarship award, which facilitated his ability to continue this research in Japan. His published work has been featured in many technical journals and he has also presented his findings to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fire Safety in the House of Commons in 2001. His research was also awarded with an MA and MSc.
As Deputy Chief in Buckinghamshire, Andy continued to work on forging links between the fire service and the public it serves. This was done through his work as Honorary President of the High Wycombe Branch of St John Ambulance, the Prince's Trust, and a local college of further education. Here the fire service became a lead partner in the delivery of a BTEC course for students who wanted to pursue a career in the emergency services or the military - a first for the fire and rescue service!
In December 2003, Andy was promoted to Chief Fire Officer of Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service. Andy has also been appointed as a Council member for the Order of St John Ambulance in Wiltshire. Upon taking up the appointment as CFO in Wiltshire, he has continued to champion the installation of automatic sprinklers to save lives and property, briefing local MPs, the South West MEP, cabinet members of Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council and briefing representatives from the National Fire Sprinkler Network
Grant N. Lupton, AFSM, B.GS, MIFireE, CPMgr, FAIM
Michael Quy
Michael Quy started his working life in the field of the Environment and Applied Earth Sciences having gained qualifications in both Building Construction and Civil Engineering with experience in the UK and Middle East.
In 1979 Michael joined the London Fire Brigade and served operationally at all ranks from Fire-fighter to Divisional Officer in West, East and Central London as well as headquarters detachments in research and development, press & public relations and fire safety. Michael has an honours degree in Fire Engineering from London's South Bank University.
For the last eight years of his career Michael was Borough Commander of two of London's central boroughs: The City of London and Camden. In 2009 Michael retired from the London Fire Brigade having completed over thirty years service. Michael is currently a fire safety advisor. Michael has been involved in the IFE since joining the fire service and has held a number of local branch offices. Michael was branch president in 1999 and is London branch secretary. A founder member on the establishment of the International General Assembly, the UK working group of the General Assembly and presently the elected General Assembly Director to the IFE Board of Directors. Michael is passionate about development of the IFE membership, particularly in the field of qualifications and is the IFE Chief Examiner.Martin Shipp BSc (Physics) CEng FIFireE CPhys MInstP
After graduating, Martin Shipp joined Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (now British Aerospace) as a thermal design engineer, primarily using computational heat balance models. He worked on a number of satellite projects and the SpaceLab Pallet.
Martin Shipp joined the Fire Research Station (part of the Building Research Establishment (BRE)) in 1974 and is Technical Development Director, Fire Safety in BRE Global. He currently has responsibility for fire investigation, fire safety management, fire risk assessment and projects related to all aspects of transport fire safety.
Martin manages the BRE fire investigation programme for Communities and Local Government (CLG). He has been involved with the investigations into Piper Alpha, Alexandra Palace, Windsor Castle, the Channel Tunnel fire (1996), Ladbroke Grove, Yarl's Wood Detention Centre fire, more recently, Atherstone on Stour, Penhallow Hotel, Newquay, Lakanal House, London, and many others.
Projects Martin has managed include drafting BS 5588 Part 12 code on the management of fire safety (now part of BS 9999), the development of "key performance indicators" for fire safety engineering (for CLG) and managing an extensive programme of research for the Scottish Executive and the Procurator Fiscal in connection with the Rosepark Care Home fire. He was a member of the BRE team that assisted CLG with drafting a number of the guidance documents in support of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and led the BRE team that assisted DCSF with drafting BB100. He has just completed a major research project on fire spread in car parks for CLG (Building Regulations) and has been leading the BRE team helping MOD Navy with fire safety on HMS Victory. Recent work has included a CLG scoping study on the environmental impact of fires versus the environmental impact of fire protection.
Fire Chief William A. Stewart FIFireE CFO CMM AdeC
Chief Stewart is a thirty-six year Fire Service veteran having served in the former City of North York Fire Department for 26 years prior to the amalgamation of the new City of Toronto on January 1, 1998. He has served as an operations fire fighter, senior officer and the Fire Chief since May 1, 2003.
Bill has served as a member of the Professional Standards Setting Body, Ontario Fire College, in the review of all standards for fire fighter training in Ontario. He is also the Chairman, Fire Apparatus and Equipment Committee, Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada; Past President, Institution of Fire Engineers (Canada Branch) as well as an Advisory Board Member of Humber College, Fire Services Program and Durham College, Fire Services Program. He also serves as the Vice President, Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association, and International Association of Fire Chiefs/National Fire Protection Association and is a Director and International President of the Institution of Fire Engineers.
Bill is a graduate of the Ontario Fire College, Technology Diploma Programs, general and advanced levels, Executive Development Program and the Canadian Emergency Preparedness College. He also holds professional designations from the Institution of Fire Engineers FIFireE; Ontario Municipal Management Institute, Certified Municipal Manager CMM, and the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, Chief Fire Officer, CFO designation. Bill is committed to life long learning, and is currently serving as a Board member for Public Administration and Governance, Ryerson University.
Reason for joining the IFE: William joined the Institution to promote and encourage members of the Ontario Fire Service to seek professional designation credentials. The IFE principles of education through continuing professional development programs are essential to maintain the knowledge of the fire engineering practice.
Portfolio responsibilities on the IFE Board:Bill`s current role on the Board focuses on membership communications. The portfolio is a shared responsibility with Mr H. G. Tay.
Hao Giang Tay FIFireE PKPB BSc(Hons) MSc Fire Safety Engineering
Hao Giang has 29 years of experience in many areas of fire safety engineering discipline. He has been advising Malaysian Government agencies and private sector corporate in relation to fire safety engineering concept and application. He has also been actively participating in Malaysian Standard development in Fire Safety and Prevention. Over the years, he has published many technical papers and has been invited to share his experience at International Conferences and Seminars. He has always adopted an unorthodox approach with fault tree analysis for issues pertaining to the fire safety industry and resolved with solutions that are fitting for application in the modern environment.
Reason for joining the IFE: Being one of the pioneer members in setting up the IFE Malaysia Branch, his objectives are to Promote and Encourage Fire Safety Engineering concept at International level; creat awareness of Fire Science and Engineering within Governmental, Quasi-governmental and Professional circles at the same time improve the practice of fire industries. To be able to do all of these, he believes that IFE is the best professional platform in achieving the goal since it was set up back in 1918 to serve the community. With his knowledge and experience, he believes he is able to share them with IFE members globally as well as any fire safety engineering related communities.
Portfolio responsibilities on the IFE Board: Given the shared Portfolio of Membership Communications with Fire Chief Mr William Stewart which in his view is an important portfolio since one of its tasks is to improve communications among members and the Head Office. Hao Giang feels that despite the advancement in ICT (Information and Communication Technology), the IFE Head Office needs to develop a more efficient way to disseminate information, such as major fire incidents, Head office/Branch activities, events, breaking news, etc. On top of our monthly Journal, web-based and email based newsletter could bring together members through ICT interaction.
To contact a member of the Board, please e-mail info@ife.org.uk