Meet the Team

Kaveh is a Chartered Professional Engineer (fire, mechanical and construction engineering) in both New Zealand and Australia with more than 13 years’ of experience in the field and has been involved with both public and private sector projects across New Zealand, the Middle East, and North America. These projects cover large-scale energy and industrial plants, oil and gas refineries, community, mixed-use and commercial buildings, and a variety of smaller retail, educational and residential construction.

Kaveh’s expertise includes facilitating fire engineering designs in accordance with the Acceptable Solutions, Verification Methods and Alternative Solutions in ANZ as well as North America. He has been involved in concept design, detailed design, commissioning, construction monitoring and contract documentation on a wide range of high-profile or award-winning projects.

Kaveh is a specialist in value engineering and is focused on presenting practical and reasonable solutions to all stakeholders that maintain the design features and reduce costs and construction time.

Kaveh has a clear focus on client satisfaction and serving specific client needs by tailoring a fire engineering strategy to the aims and constraints of the project. He has experience in adding real value to a project by facilitating departures from prescriptive codes allowing architectural freedom and cost savings in design.

Kaveh has been involved in a wide variety of projects as the lead fire engineer:

• Fire Risk Assessment for Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs), Australia (Oceania Consultants Group Pty Ltd)
• Fire Risk Assessments for EV cars, Australia (Oceania Consultants Group Pty Ltd)
• Fire Risk Assessments for Floating Production Storage and Offloading unit (FPSO), Australia (Oceania Consultants Group Pty Ltd)
• Design Verifier for Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs), Australia (Oceania Consultants Group Pty Ltd)
• Remediation & Expert Witness, a $50mil+ Claim apartment, New Zealand (Oceania Consultants Ltd)
• Research & Development, an intumescent paint formula development in New Zealand and Australia (Oceania Consultants Ltd).
• Research & Development, simulation of wildfires in New Zealand and Australia (Oceania Consultants Ltd).
• Research & Development, Energy Analysis of Hydro, CIGS solar panels and Bladeless Wind Turbine (Oceania Consultants Ltd)
• Research & Development, Hydrogen Production Reactor, Material Selection, Report, Simulate and Fire Passive Testing Planning (Oceania Consultants Ltd).
• Research & Development, Energy/Risk Analysis of Fuel Cells (PEMFC) systems and simulation by HYSYS (Oceania Consultants Ltd).
• Research & Development, Industrial project about industrial water treatment (MED, cooling towers, etc.) (Oceania Consultants Ltd).
• Research & Development, Fire Ball, Risk Assessment, pre-suppression in high-risk industries, (Oceania Consultants Ltd).
• Appointed Building Consent Authority by Local Council (Oceania Consultants Ltd).
• Cross River Rail Tunnels and Under-Ground Stations, Testing and Commissioning, Brisbane, Australia (UGL)
• Christchurch Convention and Exhibition Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand (WSP)
• Sudima Hotel, Kaikoura, New Zealand (Kirk Roberts)
• Modular Construction Approval Process , New Zealand (Kirk Roberts).
• Christchurch Boys High School, Christchurch, New Zealand (WSP)
• Christchurch Girls High School, Christchurch, New Zealand (WSP)
• Ravensdown Sulphur Storage, Risk Assessment/Alternative Solution, Christchurch, New Zealand (TM Co)
• Auckland IBM tower, Building and Fire Services – Sprinkler Design (MEP), Auckland, New Zealand (TM Co)
• POGC Gas Refineries, Risk Assessment, Overhaul, Services Design, layout and Modelling.