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Jonathan Shelley
Director
BArch, MEng(Fire), CEng, MIFireE, RPEQ, CMEngNZ, MSFPE
Solis Fire Engineers was started by Jonathan Shelley in 2019. Jonathan is a former Director of Omnii, one of the largest specialist fire engineering consultancies in Australia, and prior to that, was Queensland fire engineering leader for the major international engineering, design and advisory firm Aurecon.
With over 15 years in the Australian construction industry, Jonathan has developed a reputation for delivering practical, fit for purpose, and cost-effective fire engineered solutions that successfully resolve even the most challenging design problems.
Jonathan's wealth of experience as a consulting engineer is complemented by his background in the New Zealand Fire Service, which includes operational fire fighting, fire investigation, and fire safety. Jonathan completed his career with the NZFS as the Deputy Chief of the Fire Safety Department in Auckland, where he oversaw Built Environment regulatory compliance and fire investigation for a region of 2 million people. This background provides Jonathan with insight and experience of real-world fire behaviour that few consulting engineers can match, and enables him to deal very effectively with fire brigades and other regulatory authorities, significantly reducing one of the key risk factors in the building approval process.
Jonathan underpins his extensive practical experience with a very strong technical foundation, having graduated from the University of Canterbury’s prestigious School of Engineering with a Masters Degree in Fire Engineering (with Distinction). Jonathan is a Chartered Engineer and a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ).
Jonathan’s goal is to bring a more personal touch to the fire engineering experience. With Solis Fire Engineers, Jonathan is focused on the level of service and technical expertise that will be applied to each and every project. By deliberately limiting the scale of operations, Solis Fire Engineers can devote more time to each client, resulting in greater attention to detail, which so often means the difference between a truly successful result, and a mediocre one. In addition to improved technical outcomes, Jonathan aims to provide greater responsiveness to client needs, by either him or Andy Brennan maintaining direct involvement in every project.
So if you are looking for great fire engineering outcomes, from a name that is respected throughout the industry, you need to talk to Solis Fire Engineers.
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BEng (Hons), MSc, AdvDIP (MgtPac), IEAust, CPEng, NER,
RPEQ, BDC (C10), PE (NSW), PE (VIC)
Director
Andrew Brennan
Andrew is a Chartered Engineer and passionate leader of Fire Engineering with over 25 years’ experience in consulting engineering. Andrew has led successful high performing teams having both regional and international experience contributing to a diverse range of high profiled projects in both Australia and internationally.
As an industry leading expert, Andrew applies a collaborative approach to solving complex problems in a cost effective and practical manner with a high level of technical expertise that enables clients to realise their project vision. Andrew also has an extensive track record acting in an advisory role to Legal Counsel and a number of Government Departments such as the QBCC on matters pertaining to fire safety.
Andrew’s wide-ranging experience has allowed him to develop innovative and cost-effective fire engineered Performance Solutions for large scale Public Event Venues, Stadiums, Defence, Health, Aviation, Tertiary Education, Data Centres, Automated Industrial Facilities, large scale Infrastructure Projects, major mixed use Residential Developments and Commercial Precincts.
In addition to the Warren Centre Project on fire safety engineering, Andrew contributes to the development of Fire Safety Engineering via participation on working groups such as the Australian Tunnel Society working group on fire safety, the Fire and Rescue NSW working group on Electric Vehicle fire safety and the Society of Fire Safety (SFS)Engineers.
Professional ethics is a key aspect of Andrew’s philosophy and believes it is a key quality consulting engineering leaders should have. For that reason, Andrew has been part of the wider committee providing input to the publications by the Warren Centre setting out a road map to further enhance the professional development of fire safety engineering and design in Australia.
Andrew also enjoys working closely with universities to further enhance fire safety knowledge of future generations of fire safety engineers. Providing consulting fire engineering services with a high level of technical expertise that allows our clients to realise their vision is a key focus for Solis and Andrew is passionate about helping Solis shape a client focused consulting engineering practice.