Brian Edwards

Brian Edwards, PE serves as global explosion protection consultancy manager at Fike Corporation.  

Edwards earned a degree in civil and environmental engineering from Georgia Tech, and he is a licensed professional engineer with more than 20 years’ experience as a consultant to industry. He has extensive experience in combustible dust hazard analysis. (DHA), fire and explosion protection design as well as hazardous materials assessment, He is a principal member of NFPA’s Correlating Committee for Combustible Dust overseeing the creation of NFPA 660. 
 
Edwards has conducted numerous combustible dust hazard analyses and designed fire and explosion protection systems in a number of industries, including: food and agriculture, lumber and wood products, energy, battery, metals, chemical, pharmaceuticals, rubber and plastics, paper and cellulose, building products, automotive, and aviation.