About International Fire Consultants Ltd. (IFC)

International Fire Consultants Ltd (IFC) is a major force in the field of quality fire safety consultancy.

International Fire Consultants Ltd consists of qualified engineers, material experts and designers who have specialised in fire safety engineering.

International Fire Consultants Ltd. (IFC), established in 1985, is a multifaceted practice of fire engineers with a wide range of disciplines and expertise, drawn from government scientific establishments, the fire service, manufacturing industry, commercial testing laboratories and the construction sector.

IFC was established to provide a source of technical expertise in the field of Fire Safety Engineering. We are committed to the advancement of fire safety engineering and to this end are heavily involved in research and development projects as well as striving to standardise practices throughout the industry.

Our objective is to provide the highest quality consultancy across the wide array of different fire protection issues. The client base includes some of the leading UK and International companies.

We believe that domestically and indeed worldwide, IFC provide one of the most professional and cost effective fire safety design and support teams available.

	Graham Wiles, Managing Director, International Fire Consultants Ltd. and MD of the International Fire Consultants Group. Graham has been involved in steering and developing the IFC Group over the past fifteen years, into a recognised leading professional fire safety practice, offering clients a high quality independent service on all fire safety issues. The ethos he is trying to instil in the IFC Group is delivery of technically sound advice of quality and value to clients, at the same time leading the industry and setting standards for others rather than following established patterns. Graham was previously a manager with one of the leading chartered accountancy practices in the UK, leading teams on major plc assignments, he was also previously a member of the management, business development and estates team with one of the UK’s leading brewers
	Peter Jackman, Chairman and Technical Director of International Fire Consultants Group. He is a UK expert on several International Fire Safety committees, was the lead author of the BS476: Part 20: 1987 series of fire resistance test methods, and the author of BS8214 on fire doors. The purpose of setting up IFC was to broaden the application of fire testing and to look at all aspects of fire safety solutions. Peter has also recently been a key contributor and author involved in the drafting of the new Fire Engineering Standards in the UK, PD 7974. IFC were instructed by BSI to author the Sub system 3 section on “Structural Response and Fire Spread beyond the Compartment of Origin”. Amongst other aspects this sub system deals with fire compartmentation and fire resistance issues.
Peter also acts as the technical consultant and expert to a number of trade associations including the Intumescent Fire Seals Association (IFSA). Having witnessed well over 1,500 full scale fire tests, he is also the Chairman of the British Standards (BS) committee responsible for developing fire resistance testing procedures, overseeing the introduction of the new EN tests into BSI and the extrapolation and use of such results for applications in buildings. Peter was involved in the design and setting up of the fire testing laboratory and was the principal fire consultant for the Timber Research Association, where he worked for 15 years prior to setting up International Fire Consultants Ltd. (IFC) in 1985.