Engineered Solutions, Personal Experience
We are a fire engineering consultancy that started from the concept of offering a fresh perspective to our clients. After 20 years of experience in the industry, learning from some of the leading engineers and accumulating experience alongside well-known architects and designers, we decided to form a company that will not only bring truly engineered solutions but will offer a personal experience to our clients. Bringing together the technical with the aesthetical, we like to create bespoke solutions.
Our Philosophy
A person spends more than 20 hours per day indoors. We believe that conditioning the spaces is of the most importance for our general wellbeing. Not only can the environment influence one's emotional state, but if the body feels comfortable the person becomes more efficient. This is the main reason for us to take our jobs very seriously — trying to provide the best conditions we can, in each space we design and to ensure the highest level of life safety.
Our secret lies in the desire of achieving our client's requirements in the time and budget provided. Even if we need to sacrifice a bit more of our personal time, we are willing to do it in order to provide high quality projects. With strong ethics and a determination to excel, we believe that we have a lot to offer our clients.
Magnus Opifex Seven brings together fire engineering and regulatory perspectives for projects across the United Kingdom. Project delivery is senior-led, technical positions are documented, and each instruction is governed by an agreed written scope.
Our Values
The principles that guide every project and every recommendation.
Safety by Design
Recommendations framed against applicable life-safety objectives and project evidence.
Technical Discipline
Senior-led fire engineering with technical positions recorded clearly.
Direct Senior Contact
A clearly defined working relationship with direct access to senior project leadership.
Project-Specific Solutions
CFD modelling, performance-based design and fire-engineered analysis selected where appropriate to the brief.
UK-Wide Coverage
Project support across the United Kingdom, subject to an agreed written scope.
Regulatory Integration
Technical fire engineering coordinated with the applicable regulatory framework.
Core Team
Having combined the legal knowledge with the technical expertise and with a good public relation strategy, Magnus Opifex has grown into becoming an independent and rising consultancy.
Nicoleta Vasile, Baroness of Brattleby
Founder & CEO — Chief Legal Officer
Nicoleta is a founder of Magnus Opifex Seven and the company's Chief Legal Officer, leading legal, governance, contract-review and administrative work. She is a Romanian-qualified lawyer and a member of the Bucharest Bar since 16 September 2009.
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Alina Scarlat
Fire Engineer - Technical Director
Alina Scarlat is the Technical Director of Magnus Opifex Seven and works as a fire engineer within the consultancy. Her work covers data centres, offices, mixed-use buildings, education, stadia and residential buildings.
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Răzvan Vasile
Co-Founder & Chief Financial and Strategy Officer
Răzvan Vasile is Co-Founder of Magnus Opifex Seven and carries financial and strategic responsibility for the company, including strategic development and corporate client relationships.
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Fire engineering capability by building type and regulatory context. Client identities are published only where disclosure authority is documented.
Our Journey
Practice founded in London to deliver senior-led fire engineering with written scope agreed before work starts
Core fire strategy capability established for commercial and mixed-use buildings under Approved Document B and BS 9999 routes
Performance-based design capability developed — CFD fire and smoke modelling, evacuation analysis and structural fire engineering
Construction-stage capability added: design and technical reviews, specialist interface coordination and site inspection through Practical Completion
External wall and façade fire engineering capability established, working to PAS 9980 methodology on existing residential stock
High-consequence and regulated environment capability developed, including Technical Engineered Solutions for non-standard installations
Building Safety Act 2022 capability established — gateway documentation, golden-thread structure and safety case narratives for Higher-Risk Buildings
Senior-led, standards-based delivery consolidated across UK-wide project coverage in nuclear, healthcare, education, commercial and residential sectors
Executive fire-safety briefing for senior decision-makers
C-Suite Fire Briefings — a tailored fire-safety briefing for boards and senior leadership, focused on governance, duties, risk, evidence, decisions and next actions; scope and fee are agreed in writing after a free initial consultation.
- Each briefing is prepared for one organisation and one leadership team. There is no standard programme.
- Scope, format and fee are agreed in writing after a free initial consultation.
- Professional advice is engagement-specific and evidence-specific: what we can say depends on the information made available to us.
- The briefing does not constitute regulator approval, certification, legal advice or statutory sign-off.
- The briefing is not a substitute for project-specific fire engineering work, a fire risk assessment or a fire strategy.
- Nothing is charged before you accept a written fee proposal.
Fee confirmed in writing after scoping.
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We understand the importance of sustainability and efficiency. Get in touch to discuss how our fire engineering expertise can protect your next project.
The Brattleby Heritage Institute
A living British heritage ecosystem shaped by nearly a millennium of history — education, noble events, heritage construction, etiquette and philanthropy. A sister project of Magnus Opifex Seven & the Noble House of Brattleby.