A Fire Protection Engineer is an individual who, by formal training and professional experience, carries the necessary competency, and has the skills to provide guidance and direction to protect life, property and environment from threats posed by fire and its related mechanism. (SFPE)

Fire Engineering is a relatively new formally recognised speciality field of engineering in South Africa. Although having found a learned institution home within SAICE, it’s acknowledged and appreciated that our engineering base qualifications in South Africa span Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and others with many roads leading here. Regardless of starting point or stage of your journey, please join us in our effort to elevate the local technical competency in Fire Engineering and build an ethos of accountability and professionalism within our critical industry for both public safety and economic sustainability.