Aleksi Ojala, MSc., class PV

Service Line Leader, Mass Timber, Europe


Tampere - Finland
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Aleksi has an M.Sc. in structural engineering and has been working as a Fire Safety Engineer since 2010. He has been in the industry since 2008 and has an extensive experience working with different exceptionally demanding projects, from complex timber build projects to a multi-purpose Arena built on top of railway tracks. Aleksi has a wide range of expertise in different aspects of fire safety engineering, especially in timber building and performance-based design, including risk analysis, fire, evacuation, and smoke extraction simulations, and performance-based design plans. Aleksi also holds the highest possible FISE qualification for fire safety designers.

Education / Certifications

  • Masters of Science, Civil Engineering, Tampere Technical University
  • FISE Designer of Fire Safety (class PV)
Areas of Expertise
Mass Timber Consulting Performance-Based Design (PBD) Fire Safety Engineering

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Project Profiles

Kiihtelysvaara Church

Jensen Hughes delivered fire safety expertise for the new Kiihtelysvaara Church, applying a performance-based approach with evacuation calculations and code compliance to enable safe CLT structures.

Project Profiles

Tiistilä School and Daycare

Tiistilä School and Daycare in Espoo provides safe and secure facilities for over 1,000 students. The carbon-neutral and energy-efficient project was awarded the 2024 Hurraa! award.

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Tampere Cityscape Aerial Panorama in summer under blue sky with fluffy cloudscape

TOAS Kauppi

Discover how our Jensen Hughes team ensured safety and compliance for TOAS Kauppi in Tampere with qualitative risk analysis for CLT modular construction.

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Drone flight over pool with beautiful wooden terrace

Soulmade

Responding to the client's preference for exposed timber, we encountered a prescriptive requirement for an R90 structure that presents a unique challenge.

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Small desk in a room with a box of books and personal items in it next to a computer

TOAS Hippos

The student housing block, TOAS Hippos, is breaking new ground with a timber-based construction, and Jensen Hughes is providing a firewall solution for a modular mass timber.