Strong Buildings Start with Strong Design
Fortis is a specialist fire protection consultancy built on a simple principle. Fire protection only works when the design performs.
We bring clarity to a discipline that too often disrupts programme, inflates cost, or creates approval uncertainty.
Why Fortis Exists
Fire protection is frequently coordinated late, after key spatial and services decisions have already been fixed. It is often value-engineered without full technical understanding.
The result is predictable. Redesign. Delay. Avoidable cost.
Fortis was established to raise the standard of fire protection delivery by engaging early, defining parameters clearly, and engineering with intent.
Our Approach
Every project follows a disciplined four-stage framework.
1. Engage
Define strategy and compliance pathway before risk enters the build.
2. Define
Confirm hazard classification, hydraulic demand, and coordination parameters with precision.
3. Engineer
Develop robust modelling and integrated documentation aligned with construction realities.
4. Develop
Support approval and installation with technical clarity and accountability.
Clarity early prevents compromise later.
Specialist Capability
Fire protection is not an add-on service. It is a technical discipline requiring hydraulic precision, rigorous standards interpretation, and coordinated integration.
Fortis operates as an independent specialist consultancy accountable solely to design integrity and system performance.
We deliver sprinkler and fire alarm engineering across residential, high-rise, commercial, industrial, healthcare, education, institutional, infrastructure, and performance-critical environments, including data centres and specialist facilities.
Industrial & Performance-Critical Environments
Complex risks demand disciplined engineering.
Fortis provides specialist design for
Industrial and manufacturing facilities
High-piled and automated warehousing
Dangerous goods storage
Insurer-driven environments
We understand the relationship between commodity classification, storage configuration, and water supply demand. Systems are developed using robust hydraulic modelling and detailed standards interpretation, ensuring compliance is achieved without unnecessary conservatism or overdesign.
Standards & Technical Alignment
Our designs align with applicable New Zealand standards and enhanced performance frameworks, including:
NZS 4541 Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems
NZS 4512 Fire Detection and Alarm Systems
Building Code compliance pathways
Performance-based and insurer-aligned criteria
We engineer within the intent of the standard, not simply its minimum requirement.
Leadership with Accountability
Fortis is led by Brendon Turner, Director and Fire Protection Consultant.
Brendon brings over two decades of experience across fire protection design, integrated building services, and complex project delivery globally, with a strong focus on New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region.
He is known for a disciplined, technically grounded approach that combines strong standards literacy with practical, construction-informed engineering judgement.
Leadership at Fortis is hands-on.
Brendon remains directly involved in projects to ensure technical clarity, coordinated delivery, and consistent quality from early concept through to detailed design.
As the consultancy grows, Fortis will continue to be supported by experienced fire protection specialists aligned to the same standards of precision, accountability, and performance.
Fire protection is only as strong as the design behind it.
