On Thursday 19^th and Friday 20^th March we held our National Technical Forum across two jam-packed and insightful days, and finished it off with our Centenary Dinner and 2026 National Awards at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne.

With close to 350 guests from all areas of our Industry and from all across Australia, we celebrated the past 100 years of our Association, recognised the great work and skilled practitioners in our industry and unveiled our new brand – the Fire Industry Alliance.

We were incredibly pleased to recognise our previous Lifetime Achievement Winners and their contributions to our Association as part of our centenary celebrations, unveil our new Fire Industry Alliance Lifetime Achievement Board and invite those that were in attendance on stage.

Thank you to our presenters at our Technical Forum, for volunteering your time and sharing your valuable insights.

Thank you to our sponsors for the evening, it wouldn’t have been the celebration it was without you:

Major Event Sponsor: Victaulic

After Party Sponsor: Windsor Management Insurance Brokers

Centenary Sponsors: Ampac, Australian Fire Services, Building Futures: Breaking Barriers, Fire Logbooks Australia, Force Fire, LPG Fire Australia, Premier Services Group, Reece Fire, RNW Fire Services, Walker Fire Protection and Wormald.

Congratulations to our Awards Winners and thank you to our Award Sponsors:

Fire Protection Control Apprentice of the Year, sponsored by Ampac: Tye Schmidt, FVS Services Group

Fire Protection Apprentice of the Year, sponsored by Victaulic: Joshua Lees, Extinguished Fire

Tradesperson of the Year, sponsored by Reece Fire: Chris O’Shea, Firesafe Group

Emerging Leader, sponsored by Windsor Management Insurance Brokers: Brayden Tom, Premier Services Group

Fire Protection Professional, sponsored by LPG Fire Australia: Gerardo Cocjin, Firesafe Group

Champion in Diversity, sponsored by Incolink: ARA Fire

Women in Fire Protection, sponsored by Building Futures: Breaking Barriers: Nadia D’Rozario, Entire Fire Protection

Excellence in Innovation, sponsored by Clevertronics: Leemark Fire Protection

Outstanding Member Project – Refurbishment, sponsored by Wormald: ATP Solutions for their Chevron’s Gorgon LNG Facility Project

Outstanding Member Project – Installation, sponsored by Clevertronics: Shield Fire Systems for their Heysen Tunnel Project

And of course, after all the formalities concluded, we tapped our Fire Industry Alliance tambourines to Daryl Braithwaite and danced the night away!

For those that missed the Fire Industry Alliance announcement, please visit our Facebook or in LinkedIn pages for further information, or contact the Alliance team.

Don’t miss the Centenary Video or Centenary and Awards recap video, also available to view on our social media pages!

To view all the photos from the night, visit our Facebook album here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=FireIndustryAlliance&set=a.1441495854687735