Level 5 Diploma: Fire Engineering Design

This qualification is suitable for those who assess and design fire engineered buildings e.g:

  • Regulators – fire services, registered building control approvers (RBCA’s) and registered building inspectors (RBI’s)
  • Assessors – fire risk assessors and fire safety professionals
  • Designers – designers and architects of new buildings and alterations to existing

Qualification Units

This qualification has ten qualification units:

  1. Principles of Fire Development and Spread
  2. Principles of Fire Engineering
  3. Review the Effectiveness of Automatic Fire Suppression Systems
  4. Fire Engineering Design and its Impact on Human Behaviour
  5. Fire Engineering Design and its Impact on the Fire Resistance of Materials and Structures
  6. Smoke Control and Heat Exhaust Ventilation Systems
  7. Pressure Differential Systems
  8. Fire Engineering Design and its Impact on the External Spread of Fire
  9. Fire Engineering Design and its Impact on Access and Facilities for Fire-Fighting
  10. Principles of Fire and Evacuation Modelling

Note: This qualification has been developed in consultation with CFOA (NFCC)


Qualification routes

The Level 5 Fire Engineering Design Diploma is comprised of three courses alongside a self-study module.

  1. Fire Engineering Design 1 Find Out More
  2. Fire Engineering Design 2 Find Out More
  3. Fire Engineering Design 3 Find Out More
  4. Principles of Fire Development and Spread (Self Study)

Note: In addition to course fees, a qualification registration fee applies. See Level 5 Brochure for costs