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Mission Statement

Fire and Security Consulting Services is a Queensland based private company owned by Rick Foster. It was founded in 2002 after he moved from Sydney after 32 years in various countries as a Contractor, Engineer and Consultant. Rick's CV and work history is on this site.

Rick has now retired and no longer provides professional services although pro-bono advice is always available. The technical papers herein are based on 50 years' experience in the fire industry and are largely used as educational resources by Building Certifiers and Fire Brigade Building  Approval Officers. They are provided free of charge.


FIRE & SECURITY CONSULTING SERVICES

Sydney Harbour Tunnel fire.

CV  & BACKGROUND

Rick is proud that he and his team at Eagle Consulting Group, together with the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority and the NSW Fire Brigade developed the methodology used in this and subsequent tunnels in Australia. See further acknowledgements in the paper on the Sydney Harbour Tunnel.

 PUBLISHED PAPERS

SOMETIMES YOU'VE JUST GOT TO LAUGH AT LIFE

The deluge system installed in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel continues to provide exceptional safety for users with many "operations" over the years. The latest "save" was August 26 this year where a vehicle fire was extinguished- the tunnel was reopened within 3 hours - see photo above.

The Burnley tunnel in Melbourne is protected by a deluge system as described in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel paper. 

In March 2007 a traffic accident initiated a major fire which was successfully extinguished. See reviews below.