HOLMES FIRE Holmes Fire is New Zealand’s largest and most experienced fire engineering consultancy. Its performance-based fire safety solutions incorporate the economical, operational and lifecycle advantages of all building and infrastructure design - delivering intelligent and accurate fire engineering to structures of all shapes and sizes. The company has an extensive track record of challenging project delivery, earning a reputation for innovation and creativity. Its designs support freedom of architectural expression as well answering to the demands of building code and regulatory compliance. The company’s team of specialist engineers are expert contributors to project teams, leading the way in new industry thinking and innovation. Its approach is collaborative and open, looking for fire engineering solutions that fit with its vision for the project and 36 Annual Directory 2017 INFACT inFact is an internationally successful innovation product design engineering company that specialises in high-tech electronics, software and industrial design. It engages people who have discovered something new and different, solves real and relevant problems and collaborates to create hugely successful products or services for the market. Its success is evident in the multiple international awards it has won over the last 15 years for its new products in collaboration with its clients. The company assists entrepreneurs, research organisations and technology companies to ‘Change the Game’ by applying new science, technology, design and engineering to products and services which are market disruptors. Its world-first products include Inventory Technologies’ Clever Medkit, the Metro Pay & Display parking meter, the Fibre-gen HITMAN range of wood grading tools, and Dynamic Controls' Shark electric wheel chair remote control. The company typically works with medical practitioners, researchers and entrepreneurs in startup mode who want to establish the viability of their technical innovation in the market. In New Zealand’s hi-tech community, InFact is uniquely positioned to leverage expertise and partnerships with businesses in New Zealand, Asia and South America to produce world-class products that take advantage of existing free trade agreements in the Asia Pacific region. HOLMES CONSULTING GROUP For nearly six decades Holmes Consulting Group has worked right across New Zealand and the world, delivering premium structural and civil solutions to thousands of landmark projects. With five offices in New Zealand and a sister company in the USA, it has the horsepower and experience to handle the most challenging design projects anywhere in the world. The company is renowned for being unfailingly curious, never cutting corners, and always seeking a better path. Where the right technology doesn’t exist it invents its own to break new ground. When there’s an opportunity to improve method, practice or thinking, it puts its hand up to lead the way. Its expert engineers are known for loving the toughest design challenges and never shying away from bold architectural visions that seem to defy the laws of gravity. The company’s clients and project partners enjoy working with it because it consistently delivers what it promises, going so far as to work all hours to bring a new design to life. The company prides itself on its inclusive approach, enjoying the energy and creativity of collaboration as much as it enjoys nutting out tough structural problems back at the office. Currently its engineers and drafters are working on landmark national and international projects that will set the benchmark for creative engineering design for years to come. the specific needs of the structure. With more than 50 professionally qualified fire engineers, it has unrivalled experience and expertise combined with the creativity and energy to deliver great fire engineering time and again. It forms part of Holmes Group with more than 320 people worldwide in its employ delivering fire and structural engineering, product development and testing, and building code compliance services. BEST OF THE BEST
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