• From water tanks in Mexico to protecting primates in Vietnam, we’re proud to have supported the WLT this year

    This year, as we continued our OFR journey to Net Zero, we set upon our Carbon Balancing journey with the World Land Trust (WLT).  The partnership has helped us balance our carbon…

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  • Supporting the community through Haringey Giving Week

    We are proud of working alongside many other businesses within the industry, that share our values and community-focussed ethos. This November, as part of the wider team delivering Related Argent’s regeneration of Tottenham Hale, we are getting behind Haringey Giving Week – a week-long fundraising campaign. Here, Karen Hugh tells us more about what this involves and who it will benefit…

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  • Setting a fire engineering precedent with significant Midlands development

    As a significant development project, the £110m Octagon in Birmingham will put the great Midlands city once again on the global stage. Upon completion, this progressive project will be the tallest octagonal-shaped residential building, not only in the UK but throughout the world. Here our colleague Rich Rankin tells us more about OFR’s role in the project.

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  • OFR welcomes four new colleagues in Scotland

    In a period of rapid growth, leading fire engineering consultancy OFR has appointed four new colleagues to its team in Scotland. million-pound projects, offering fire engineering advice to clients.

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  • Creating buildings that are fit for the future

    ur colleague and founding director Sam Liptrott recently signed an open letter to the government, calling for better designed buildings. Here, he tells us more about his hopes for the future of the built environment.

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  • Investing in future talent; OFR welcomes eight new colleagues in September – taking staff headcount to 115

    In a period of rapid growth, leading fire engineering consultancy OFR has appointed eight new colleagues to its UK wide team – seven of whom are graduate fire engineers.

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  • Building Magazine lists OFR as one of the UK’s top consultants

    OFR Consultants has ranked in Building Magazine’s annual ranking of the top consultants in the UK’s construction sector.

    The company features in the top 150 practices in the country; the listings also show that OFR is the only specialist fire engineer to appear in the Top 50 Engineers list.

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  • OFR Designs Fire Strategy for Challenging Cumbrian Citadel Project

    Our Manchester team, led by director Richard Rankin is involved in a challenging, transformative project in Carlisle. Known as the Citadel project, it will see a historic area of the city repurposed…

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  • Our journey to Net Zero; OFR partners with the World Land Trust

    As we continue our journey to Net Zero, finding new ways in which to reduce our impact on the environment, we are today proud to announce the start of our Carbon Balancing journey with the World Land Trust (WLT).  

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  • Ruoxi and Mel get the chop for children’s charity

    Two members of our OFR team have recently raised a whopping £1,237 for children’s charity, The Little Princess by having their locks chopped. Principal fire engineer,
    Melanie Harris and senior fire engineer, Ruoxi Shi have smashed their original goal of raising £1,000, thanks to generous donations by OFR colleagues, friends and family.

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