A Movement for Better Fire Protection
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Why can't we spend more time doing the things that help our business instead of laboring within it? Why should large corporations be the only parties equipped with the quickest tools? This website is the anthem for the curious, the freelancer, the passionate, the rookie, the up-and-comer, the inspector, the cubicle champion, and the self-driven trailblazer. You already care about doing great work. What if you could do it faster, better, with quality resources and community? MeyerFire.com was created to help you excel as an expert and leader in fire protection. This is our anthem. Join the movement for better fire protection. |
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Shared Knowledge + Quality Resources = Better Fire Protection
The aim of MeyerFire is to promote the practice by connecting and empowering professionals in and around the fire protection community. I hope to do so by providing high-quality, highly visual educational content and resources unlike anywhere else in the fire protection industry.
About Joe
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Joe Meyer is a licensed Fire Protection Engineer and writer who has a passion for the industry. He owns his own practice focusing in fire suppression, fire alarm and life safety applications in St. Louis, Missouri. You can see more about his practice at www.MeyerFPE.com.
Joe graduated from the University of Kansas in Architectural Engineering and later the University of Maryland in Fire Protection Engineering. Before beginning his own practice, Joe worked in fire alarm, sprinkler, standpipe, and clean agent design for a large MEP firm in Kansas City and then began a fire protection group for a small MEP & Structural Engineering firm in St. Louis, Missouri. Joe wrote the MeyerFire PE Prep Guide (2016-2021 Editions), compiled the NFSA's Expert of the Day Handbooks (2004-2018 and 2019-2020 Editions), and was a contributing author to NFSA's Layout, Detail and Calculations of Fire Sprinkler Systems textbook (3rd Edition, 2021). Joe has served as a Chapter President in SFPE, has served on the Engineering Advisory Board for the University of Kansas CEAE program, and has taught as a lecturer at the university level. He writes regularly at www.meyerfire.com, founded the MeyerFire Forum, and continues to create tools and resources for fire protection professionals. |
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I am fairly passionate about a small handful of things in my life. My family, baseball, and fire protection have to be right there at the top of the list.
Early in college I was introduced to fire protection and never looked back. I find something fascinating about helping save lives through automatic systems during such a rare and small window of time where fires happen. We are in this business because there's such a strong importance in doing something that matters, and fire protection matters.
I'm thrilled you are here and are a part of this story.
I'm thrilled you are here and are a part of this story.
MeyerFire Beginnings
In preparing for the Fire Protection P.E. Exam, I felt a little overwhelmed. There were over 6,000 pages of material to review and an array of calculations I needed to understand on topics which I didn't even have any experience. I struggled initially even to find what review material existed, much less to find quality review materials to prepare for the exam.
All I really wanted was to know what helpful material existed and what information was critical for the exam. For three months I delayed even doing practice problems and instead scoured all of the required references to create a comprehensive cheatsheet that I could use as a table of contents/quick reference/formula sheet to save time on the exam itself (this later became the beginnings of the PE Prep Guide).
After taking the exam, I quickly realized that our fire protection niche has left many others with that same feeling of having to blaze-their-own-trail to study for the exam. This site was built to combat that struggle by (1) identifying what helpful material exists, (2) building a community for collaboration, and (3) to save very precious time in preparing and taking the exam. This effort started to help answer that call.
Following the exam, I created a blog to offer visual takeaways gathered in my journey as an engineer. I've found that the best way to learn and grow is to research, ask, and share information and the blog found here is intended to offer exactly as much.
All I really wanted was to know what helpful material existed and what information was critical for the exam. For three months I delayed even doing practice problems and instead scoured all of the required references to create a comprehensive cheatsheet that I could use as a table of contents/quick reference/formula sheet to save time on the exam itself (this later became the beginnings of the PE Prep Guide).
After taking the exam, I quickly realized that our fire protection niche has left many others with that same feeling of having to blaze-their-own-trail to study for the exam. This site was built to combat that struggle by (1) identifying what helpful material exists, (2) building a community for collaboration, and (3) to save very precious time in preparing and taking the exam. This effort started to help answer that call.
Following the exam, I created a blog to offer visual takeaways gathered in my journey as an engineer. I've found that the best way to learn and grow is to research, ask, and share information and the blog found here is intended to offer exactly as much.
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