Simon Ham trained as an architect and developed his knowledge of fire safety design largely whilst employed by Nottinghamshire County Council, as "fire architect", following the Fairfield Elderly Persons Home fire in which 19 people died.
He was the only fire consultant appointed to the Building Regulations Advisory Committee, the statutory committee that advises the Secretary of State for the Environment on building regulation matters between July 1983 and December 1995. He also served on the Department of the Environment Fire Advisory Panel until it was wound up in 1998.
He was a BRE/Fire Research Station Visitor from 1988 - 1993 responsible for advising the Chief Executive on the quality and application of the work of the Establishment and on the standing of its technical capabilities in scientific and professional forums.
He has represented the Royal Institute of British Architects on a number of British Standard Committees concerned with fire design and testing.
He was a founding member of the Society of Fire Safety Engineers and was a member of the Council of the Institute of Fire Safety formed through a merger between the Society of Fire Safety Engineers and the former UK Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
He has practised as an independent fire consultant since 1984 working on a number of major building projects mostly but not exclusively within the United Kingdom. He has also undertaken research projects for the Department of the Environment and N.H.S.
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