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Ryan Hilditch

Current positions held

Principal, Fire Science, Halliwell (Australia)
Industry supervisor, UQ Fire Group PhD

About

Ryan is the Principal of the Fire Science division within Halliwell Australia. Halliwell provides fire science research with industry partners in academia and the emergency services, as well as fire safety product performance research with manufacturers and industry groups. We are actively delivering research to contextualise and support reasonable updates to fire safety Codes and Standards, including the NCC.

Ryan contributes technical research for expert witness opinions and acts as lead expert for issues within his areas of expertise, such as combustible cladding and fire dynamics evolution in real fires. He advises lawyers, insurance and loss adjusters on technical fire matters for legal and recovery purposes.

Ryan oversees support on contemporary design projects. Specifically, the Halliwell Fire Science team aims to contribute to design projects with particularly difficult technical challenges, and cases where the project fire engineer is not able to provide detailed technical advice. Instances include, exposed mass timber buildings, hazardous sites such as solar farms with BESS installations and complex buildings with challenging evacuation scenarios, such as convention centres, prisons and very tall buildings.

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