President
Managing Director – Financial
Fire Protection Engineer
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, 2003
M.Sc. Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2009
MBA in Engineering Management, University of New Brunswick, Fall 2011
Areas of Practice
- Client Service
- Fire Protection Engineering
- Fire Modeling and CFD Simulation
- Fire Dynamics
- Heat Transfer Analysis
- Sprinkler System Design
- Risk/Consequence Analysis
- Building and Fire Code Consulting
- Performance-Based Solutions
- Due Diligence Audits
- Fire Safety Planning
- Authority Relations
- Technical Training
Professional Experience
RJ Bartlett Engineering Ltd, Fredericton, NB, January 2003 to Present
- Building and Fire Code Consulting
- Fire Modeling and Analysis
- Client Service
Coles Associates Ltd., Charlottetown, PEI, July 1998 to September 2002 (summer employment)
- Preparation of drawings for various projects
- Contract administration
- Finite element analysis
Affiliations
- Registered Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of New Brunswick
- Registered Professional Engineer with Engineers PEI
- Registered Professional Engineer with Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland & Labrador
- Registered Professional Engineer with the State of Maine, USA, Professional Engineers
- Professional Member with Society of Fire Protection Engineers
- Fellow of Engineers Canada
Committees
Association of Consulting Engineering Companies-Canada
- Board Vice Chair, 2022 – Present
Association of Consulting Engineering Companies-New Brunswick
- Past President, 2012 – 2020
Advisory Council for Harmonized Construction Codes, 2023 – Present
Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of New Brunswick
- Experience Review Committee, 2017 – 2021
- Association Affairs, Vice-Chair, 2009 – 2016
- Association Affairs, Councilor, 2006 – 2008
- Fredericton Branch, Secretary, 2006
The Fredericton United Way 2006-2011 Campaigns
- Architecture and Engineering Sector Co-Chair
Society of Fire Protection Engineers
- Building Information Modeling Task Group
University of New Brunswick
- Senior Project Peer Mentor, 2011 – 2016
YMCA Fredericton
- Operations Board, Chair, 2015 – 2024
Papers and Presentations
The following represents a sample of the presentations given and/or prepared by Ben Coles:
- “Fuel Cell Energy – Our Future?”, August 2002, Boston, Massachusetts
- “Canada’s 2005 National Building Code”
- “Part 3 of the 2020 National Building Code of Canada”
- “Practical Workshop on Applying Part 3 of the 2020 National Building Code of Canada”
- “The National Building Code of Canada, 2005, Division B Acceptable Solutions, Part 3 Fire Protection and Occupant Safety”
- “Active Fire Safety Systems for Buildings”
- Opportunity Analysis Related to the Geographic Expansion of a Specialized Consulting Engineering Firm
- Fire Safety Evaluation Systems and Their Role in Asset Management