About Halt Fire

Halt Fire is a boutique fire engineering consultancy based in regional Victoria, operating across Australia. Bill founded Halt Fire on a straightforward idea — that clients deserve direct access to the engineer doing the work, not a firm where senior expertise is promised and junior staff are delivered.

Every engagement is handled personally by Bill. No templates, no handoffs, no waiting for someone else to get back to you.

About Bill Gleeson

A fire engineering decision made at the wrong time, or with the wrong advice, can stall a project for months. It can mean rejected applications, budget overruns, and damage to your own professional reputation with your client. Bill has seen the problem from every angle and can give you a straight answer.

Bill spent 12 years as a Firefighter with the Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service, before moving into fire engineering in 2016. Formerly the Fire Engineer for Northern Territory Government, he has worked both sides of the process — reviewing performance solutions as an authority, then delivering them as a registered senior fire safety engineer in Melbourne.

Bill understands how fire services, regulators, and approval bodies think. He's logical, practical, and direct — the kind of engineer who tells you what you need to know, not what you want to hear.

Qualifications & registration

• Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

• Graduate Diploma in Fire Safety

• Registered Fire Safety Engineer — Victoria and New South Wales

• Associate Member - Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE)

Recognition

• AFAC Knowledge and Innovation Award, 2015

• Fire Fighter of the Year, 2015

• Best All-Round Recruit (peer and trainer voted), 2007

Experience across

• Warehousing

• Defence

• Education

• Health and hospitals

• Commercial

• Residential Aged Care Facilities

• BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems)

• ESMs (Essential Safety Measures)

Specialist areas

• Performance solutions and peer review

• Owners’ corporation and cladding fire safety

• Heritage-listed buildings

• Lithium battery fire risk

• Building fire safety remediation

• Bushfire planning and preparedness

• Expert witness services