The moment

Critical fire safety decisions are often made using proprietary software or in-house spreadsheets that cannot be independently checked. When methods are hidden or undocumented, engineers have no reliable way to verify accuracy or improve the calculations that underpin life-safety outcomes.

Fire engineering knowledge remains fragmented across textbooks, research papers, standards and informal practice. The industry struggles to consistently demonstrate the competence of its members or the reliability of the methods being applied, making it difficult to show that performance-based decisions are technically sound.

Regulators frequently do not have clear access to the underlying methodologies used in design submissions and must spend significant effort reconstructing or interpreting the logic behind them. This lack of transparency slows reviews, increases uncertainty and ultimately limits the pace of safe innovation across the built environment.

Emberon Tech is rebuilding the foundations of fire engineering through three interconnected pillars that address the core challenges of transparency, collaboration, and competence in fire safety practice.

Emberon Tech develops and supports a complete ecosystem of fire engineering tools, each serving a specific role in the transition to transparent practice.

Simón and Jamie are fire engineers who became convinced that their profession needed better foundations. They started Emberon Tech in Edinburgh to build those foundations.