Belfast

Eoin is a Director with BB7, working from the Belfast Office. He has over 14 years of experience in a vast range of sectors covering over 500 projects and working with many well-known contractors and architects. He has grown teams and worked on award-winning projects throughout Britain, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.

Eoin was based in London for 13 years, leading Fire Engineering teams with Bureau Veritas/Fusion Fire Engineering. He moved to Belfast in 2019 to set up a Belfast Office and expand the London Office for Goldsmith Engineering, which was later acquired by BB7 in 2020.

Eoin has a strong interest in growing teams, teaching younger members of staff and increasing their competency. He specialises in ‘Fire Engineered Solutions’ using current research, calculations from first principles, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and relevant guidance documents.

With Bureau Veritas/Fusion Fire Engineering, Eoin joined the small practice, helped it expand, and heavily contributed to growing its reputation, progressing up to working with world-renowned architects, contractors, and projects. Whilst understanding Client’s needs, he maintains a strong emphasis on keeping solutions simple and practical for architecture, construction, and management during the life of the building.

Ray Quinn is a Director with BB7 specialising in fire safety engineering. For 20 years Ray has been providing fire safety engineering advice throughout the UK and Ireland with his early career spent in London.

Ray has provided fire engineering advice on a wide range of complex projects including mixed use developments, airport terminals, shopping centres, large healthcare and educational premises, high rise offices, apartments, hotel developments, historic buildings and large distribution warehousing. Ray has also provided specialist advice on the incorporation of atria in buildings.
Most recently, Ray has led the development of the fire engineering strategies on the new world class Cavendish III Physics Laboratories at Cambridge University (~£300M) and the new National Maternity Hospital in Dublin (~€300M). Ray also led the development of fire engineering strategies for a number of large schemes in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter including the iconic Titanic Belfast building (~£100M).
Ray has lectured on Human Behaviour in Fire, Fire Dynamics, Smoke Control in Complex Buildings, Fire Safety Engineering and Principles of Fire Safety in Healthcare Premises. He has been a part time lecturer in Fire Engineering Design at University of Ulster’s MSc Fire Safety Engineering course since 2004. Ray is a Chartered Engineer and a member of Engineers Ireland and the Institution of Fire Engineers.