About the practice
Senior fire engineering, delivered by the engineer accountable for the output.
JWCS Consultancy is a specialist UK railway fire engineering practice. Engagements are led personally by the Principal Engineer — clients work directly with the engineer who designs the solution, assures the installation, and manages the handover.
Principal Engineer
Jamie Boyd, GIFireE, is the founder and Principal Engineer of JWCS Consultancy Ltd. His twenty-plus year career spans fire systems engineering on UK metro, mainline rail, and power-sector infrastructure, with extensive experience delivering fire strategies, assurance frameworks, and field oversight across the full project lifecycle.
Recent senior posts include leading the fire discipline on two new central-section metro stations from conception through to handover, and senior fire engineering roles across a portfolio of sub-surface London Underground stations with a Tier-1 metro operator.
He has authored, co-authored, or led the assurance of fire strategies, S1088 submissions, technical requirements specifications, materials compliance registers, cause-and-effects matrices, and integrated test plans for live operational railway environments.
Qualifications and credentials
- GIFireE Graduate Member, Institution of Fire Engineers
- 17th Edition IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671)
- QT016 AM2 Electrotechnical Assessment
- 2330 Level 3 NVQ Electrotechnical Services
- SMSTS Site Management Safety Training Scheme
- SSSTS Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme
- Sentinel Railway Personal Track Safety
- ECS Gold Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (CSCS-equivalent)
- IPAF 3A Scissor / 3B Boom / 1B Mast — Powered Access
- PASMA Mobile Access Towers
- First Aid 3-Day Certified
Core expertise
- ▸ Fire strategy design for sub-surface rail environments — stations, tunnels, depots, equipment buildings
- ▸ Active fire systems: detection (BS 5839), suppression (BS EN 12845 / BS EN 15004 / BS 5306), EVC (BS 5839-9), ASD, dampers
- ▸ Passive fire protection: compartmentation, fire doors, firestopping, structural protection (BS 476, BS EN 13501)
- ▸ Fire Risk Assessment under RRO 2005
- ▸ S1088 submissions and LFB liaison
- ▸ Equal egressibility and PRM evacuation strategies — refuge points, intervention facilities, escape routeways
- ▸ Cause and Effects matrix development for integrated fire systems
- ▸ Field assurance: inspection, testing, certification, commissioning oversight
- ▸ Assurance documentation hierarchy management across the full delivery lifecycle
- ▸ DSEAR assessments and dangerous-substance hazardous-area review
- ▸ Materials compliance review and technical assessment
- ▸ Staged-gate fire strategies and phased project delivery
Discuss a project
Whether it is a single fire risk assessment, a multi-stage assurance programme, or peer review of an existing scheme — get in touch.
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