Joseph Vaughn, P.E., Set Email & Phone Number

Macao SAR

Macau

• Responsible for initiating efforts across multiple offices tp develop new engineering service lines.
• Directed fire protection engineering efforts on behalf of the authority having jurisdiction for many of the largest buildings in the built environment, including the following:+ Londoner Macao – a US$2.1 billion.
• Project manager for professional services of many of the largest structures in today’s built environment. Manages permanent and temporary staff and coordinates an effort that includes design, review, inspection.
• Performed and supervised the performance-based design and validation of equivalency to provide innovative design solutions for a variety of buildings in different localities around the world. Notable analysis include.

Macao SAR

• Directed fire protection engineering efforts on behalf of the authority having jurisdiction for many of the largest buildings in the built environment, including the following:+ MGM Cotai – a US$3 billion project.
• Developed on-boarding presentation for rotating staff to establish expectations, responsibilities, processes and procedures.
• Developed a workflow procedure for remote offices to perform approximately 1,200 hours yearly of alteration and addition technical reviews of designs for fire protection, and contractor's fire protection and life.

Macao

• Provided Fire Protection Engineer Designer of Record (FPE DOR) and Fire Protection Specialist / Fire Protection Engineer Quality Control (FPE QC) services for DoD facilities in Guam and Japan to comply with force.
• Provided interpretation of technical codes and criteria and explain technical guidance both verbally and in writing to a variety of international designers, contractors, and project managers.
• Developed fire protection design strategies for acceptance by project stakeholders using both code and performance based approaches as well as other special studies related to specific code compliance issues.
• Provided technical engineering guidance and advice to design teams, building owners, and contractors for compliance with local and international fire safety codes and standards, and performance based engineering.
• Created 4-hour training course related to sprinkler seismic design, contractor’s shop drawing review, and site inspections. Utilized project based challenges from numerous DoD facilities in Japan and Guam.

Macao

• Developed technical design guide and contractor’s shop drawing specifications for ensuring fire and life safety system code compliance, as well as ensuring local jurisdiction requirements were incorporated.
• Developed a variety of site inspection, testing, and commissioning documentation to ensure quality assurance and consistency, and the forms were later adopted company-wide.

• Responsible for technical design and contractor’s shop drawing reviews to ensuring code compliance for a wide variety of fire and life safety systems: means of egress, smoke control, fire detection and emergency voice.
• Performed the role of Fire Protection Specialist for DoD facilities in Japan for review of contractor’s shop drawings, inspection and testing of fire protection systems.

Macau

• Team member for technical design drawing review, inspection, commissioning, and acceptance testing at the Venetian casino complex in Macau, China.
• Performed site investigation and pre-design activities for a fire protection system retrofit in a historic federal courthouse.
• Conducted performance-based design of smoke management systems and evacuation analyses using computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and evacuation models and calculations.

• Created a database of over 8,000 hazardous materials based on International Building Code definitions to facilitate building design and operations, which could reduce project labor requirements by approximately 40 to.
• Built fire and egress models for various performance based designs.
• Performed waterflow testing for sprinkler system designs.

Northborough, Massachusetts, United States

• Performed risk and hazard assessments based on OSHA and NFPA standards.

Ms, Fire Protection Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering