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
10 Years of experience with RJ Bartlett Engineering Ltd
- 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
Fire Protection Engineering
Building and Fire Code Consulting
Affiliations
- Registered Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of New Brunswick
- Registered Professional Engineer with Engineers PEI
- 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 Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of New Brunswick
- Association Affairs, Vice-Chair, 2009 – Present
- Association Affairs, Councilor, 2006 – 2008
- Fredericton Branch, Secretary, 2006
- Annual General Meeting Planning Committee, 2006
- APEGNB Fredericton Branch, Councilor, 2005
Association of Consulting Engineering Companies-New Brunswick
- Past President, 2012 – 2019
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 – Present
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 1995 National Building Code of Canada”
- “Practical Workshop on Applying Part 3 of the 1995 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