Hotel fires have been the news focus in the region recently. With more innovations in hotel designs globally in general, and in the Middle East in particular, achieving adequate levels of fire and life safety has proven to be a…

Poornabodh Kashyap
0 Articles0 CommentsMr. Poornabodh Kashyap is a Senior Consultant for JENSEN HUGHES’ Dubai office. Prior to joining JENSEN HUGHES, Mr. Kashyap worked with a fire protection engineering manufacturer in Easton, PA, USA, and Mumbai, India. Mr. Kashyap also interned with JENSEN HUGHES’ (Formerly Aon FPE) Phoenix office. Mr. Kashyap has a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University, USA, and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore, India. Mr. Kashyap’s varied experience includes code analyses of many types of occupancies including high-rise offices and hotels, shopping malls, airport terminals, power generation stations and numerous other facilities in India, the Middle East and the United States. He has assisted in preparing alarm system, sprinkler layout system designs, specifications and shop drawing reviews as well as site fire protection and life safety audits for various facilities. Additionally, Mr. Kashyap has performed fire and smoke modeling analysis for resorts, hotels and luxury apartment facilities, shopping malls and other buildings containing high-rise atrium spaces.