TRUSTED FIRE ENGINEERING

We worked on Building C, 8 Nugent Street, Auckland which is 92 apartments. Crossfire has done the fire report for both the building consent and tender documents. I have worked with Michael and the team and they have been great - they got on with the job and we got the documents in the timeframe. We only surround ourselves with people we know and trust and who will produce the goods, that’s why we work with Crossfire.

I have worked with Michael Dixon for about 15 years. Crossfire give a very responsive service providing quality, timely and personal design advice. The main things I notice is their responsiveness and flexibility - they create innovative solutions to tailor advice to the problem at hand. As an example, for the Vodafone building we had to assess options for increasing occupant headcount density on each floor.

I am a project manager and recently worked with Crossfire on an upgrade to a 1926 concrete building in central Auckland, this involved conversion to 30 apartments, an existing retail space and a seismic upgrade. Crossfire have been good to work with, extremely helpful and always prompt and thorough in their responses.

I am a founder client of Crossfire. They are consistently accurate and prompt with their documentation and unsurpassed in the level of feedback I get - without this feedback, it’s difficult to know whether we can build a building let alone design one. We have worked together on the Pak’nSave & NW Supermarkets and the Tauranga Crossing shopping centre. On our own office design, we had a tricky fire egress situation. Xfire recommended a simple and cost-effective solution that complied with body corporate and the fire egress requirements in the fire code.

I’ve worked with Crossfire since 2013 on two projects - the North West Shopping Centre at Westgate, and now the retail development called North West Two. I worked closely with all members of the design team. I found Crossfire excellent to work with. Every question we’ve had on fire engineering was always answered within 24 hours. That’s exceptional. Usually I have to wait much longer and chase for those answers. Jeff Parkinson was very, very easy to deal with and showed a lot of interest in the project way beyond his defined role - it was pleasing to work with him.

I have known the Crossfire team for 2 years and we worked on the Palmers Planet job on Zone 9 of the Westgate Town Centre. They’ve also done the peer review work on Zone 7, I am a project architect on the scheme. I have worked with Jeff Parkinson and can genuinely say he’s been very professional, very prompt in response and provides practical solutions in a timely manner. I’ve no reservation in recommending Crossfire and I’d be more than happy to work with them on other projects and hopefully that will eventuate.

I’ve worked with Michael Dixon and the team over the past 2 years on a range of projects for the Saint Kentigern Trust Board. Fire engineering is an area that has a limited number of experienced practitioners and the good ones have found themselves to be pretty sought after - I would put Crossfire in that category. They have performed beyond our experience of other firms in the area. They are very good to work with and have always been responsive to our project needs and always seem to perform well even when time frames are constrained.