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About Abhishek

Speaking and media

Published articles, webinars and international speaking on assurance, product compliance, fire safety and the TIC industry.
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Speaking footprint

Technical subjects for international audiences

Invitations across the United Kingdom, Spain, Singapore, New Zealand, Brazil and India have provided a platform to address compliance, assurance and the connection between codes and practical implementation.

  • Product and material compliance
  • Fire testing and passive fire protection
  • Building-envelope and cladding assurance
  • Implementation risks and compliance pitfalls

Selected publications

Twenty articles from the existing archive

Published work covering façade and cladding safety, fire doors, structural fire protection, building materials and regulatory implementation.

  1. 01 Does A Large-Scale Fire Propagation Test Ensure A Fire-Safe Cladding? CTBUH Journal
  2. 02 Changes to the 2019 Revision of NFPA 285 Test Method Windows & Facade Magazine
  3. 03 Using Fire Doors to Maintain Fire Safety Windows & Facade Magazine India
  4. 04 Correct Tools for Assurance of Properties of Building Materials Gulf Fire · October 2019
  5. 05 Primer on Cladding Fires: All You Need To Know FSAI Journal India · May 2020
  6. 06 Errors Eat Earnings Fire Middle East · October 2020
  7. 07 Enabling Better Fire Safety and Implementation: A Practical Guide Security Link India · March 2021
  8. 08 Regulations Across Gulf Countries for Cladding Fire Safety Fire Middle East · January 2022
  9. 09 Product Compliance as per National Building Code of India FSAI · March 2022
  10. 10 The Mechanics of Technical Compliance: Structural Fire Protection Fire Middle East · April 2022
  11. 11 The Cladding Problem: Establishing and Assessing Safe Building Envelopes International Journal of Conformity Assessment · April 2022
  12. 12 Understanding Compliance: Compartmentation Fire Middle East · July 2022
  13. 13 Understanding Compliance: Fire Doors Fire Middle East · October 2022
  14. 14 Transparent Fire Resistance Fire Middle East · December 2022
  15. 15 Structural Fire Protection: Compliance Pitfalls Indian Association of Structural Engineers · February 2023
  16. 16 Understanding Mock-Up Fire Testing Windows & Facade Magazine · March 2023
  17. 17 Implementing Compliance in Cladding Fire Middle East · April 2023
  18. 18 Assurance of Passive Fire Protection in India Fire Safe Build India · May 2023
  19. 19 Implementing Compliance in Paints and Coatings Fire Middle East · August 2023
  20. 20 Typical Pitfalls in Implementing Fire Safety with Glazing Fire Middle East · November 2023

Published and presented work

A record of publications, interviews and international appearances

47 publications 36 speaking and media appearances

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Writing and research

Publications

  1. 2026July 2026
    Long-form article

    The Resilience Era: Mapping the Geopolitical, Generational, and Structural Super-Cycle in Global Assurance

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Read via LinkedIn profile
  2. 2026May 2026
    Magazine article

    The Universal Language of Passive Fire Protection

    Fire Middle East

    Abhishek's Fire Middle East author page
  3. 2026May 2026
    Magazine article

    Implementing Compliance in Cladding

    Fire Middle East

    Abhishek's Fire Middle East author page
  4. 2025September 2025
    Magazine article

    Understanding Assurance of Passive Fire Protection

    International Fire Protection

    Read article
  5. 2025March 2025
    Long-form article series

    The TIC Industry Article Series

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Abhishek's LinkedIn Articles
  6. 2025March 2025
    Article

    The Backbone of Every Industry

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Read article
  7. 2025March 2025
    Article

    Who All Make Up the TIC Industry

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Read article
  8. 2025April 2025
    Article

    Conformity Assessment Bodies

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Read article
  9. 2025April 2025
    Article

    Assuring the Assurers

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Read article
  10. 2025April 2025
    Article

    Drivers of Assurance Industry

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Read article
  11. 2025April 2025
    Article

    Assurance Driven by Regulations

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Read article
  12. 2025May 2025
    Article

    Supremacy Driving Assurance

    LinkedIn / TIC.GURU

    Read article
  13. 2025April 2025
    Magazine article

    Compartmentation

    INSITE / Indian Design Magazine

    Read article
  14. 2025July 2025
    Magazine article

    Pitfalls in Passive Fire Protection: Learning from the Mistakes of Others

    INSITE / Indian Design Magazine

    Read magazine PDF
  15. 2024February 2024
    Published article

    Fire Safe India 2047: Assuring Proactive (Passive) Fire Protection

    LinkedIn

    Read article
  16. 2023February 2023
    Technical article

    Structural Fire Protection: Compliance Pitfalls

    Indian Association of Structural Engineers Newsletter

    IAStructE archive
  17. 2023March 2023
    Technical article, co-authored

    Understanding Mock-Up Fire Testing

    WFM / Window & Façade Magazine

    WFM issue containing article
  18. 2023April 2023
    Technical article

    Implementing Compliance in Cladding

    Fire Middle East

    Fire Middle East — author/archive
  19. 2023April 2023
    Industry comment

    Bustling Start Welcoming a Post-Covid World

    Gulf Fire

    Gulf Fire — Abhishek author page
  20. 2023May 2023
    Technical article / industry paper

    Assurance of Passive Fire Protection in India

    Fire Safe Build India

    FSBI archive
  21. 2023August 2023
    Technical article

    Implementing Compliance in Paints and Coatings

    Fire Middle East

    Fire Middle East archive
  22. 2023November 2023
    Technical article

    Typical Pitfalls in Implementing Fire Safety with Glazing

    Fire Middle East

    Fire Middle East archive
  23. 2022January 2022
    Technical article

    Regulations Across Gulf Countries for Cladding Fire Safety

    Fire Middle East Magazine

    Fire Middle East / article archive
  24. 2022March 2022
    Technical paper

    Product Compliance as per National Building Code of India

    FSAI

    FSAI journal archive
  25. 2022April 2022
    Technical article

    The Mechanics of Technical Compliance: Structural Fire Protection

    Fire Middle East

    Fire Middle East archive
  26. 2022April 2022
    Peer/technical journal paper

    The Cladding Problem: Establishing and Assessing Safe Building Envelopes

    International Journal of Conformity Assessment

    Read full journal PDF
  27. 2022July 2022
    Technical article

    Understanding Compliance: Compartmentation

    Fire Middle East

    Fire Middle East archive
  28. 2022October 2022
    Technical article

    Understanding Compliance: Fire Doors

    Fire Middle East

    Fire Middle East archive
  29. 2022December 2022
    Technical article

    Transparent Fire Resistance

    Fire Middle East

    Fire Middle East archive
  30. 2021March 2021
    Long-form technical article

    Enabling Better Fire Safety & Implementation – A Practical Guide

    SecurityLink India

    Read full article
  31. 2021January 2021
    Technical article

    Fire Safety in Façades: Standards and Testing

    WFM / Window & Façade Magazine

    Read article
  32. 2020March 2020
    Published article

    Establishing Fire Safety of Carpets

    LinkedIn

    Read article
  33. 2020May 2020
    Journal article

    Primer on Cladding Fires: All You Need to Know

    FSAI Journal

    FSAI / article archive
  34. 2020October 2020
    Industry article

    Errors Eat Earnings

    Fire Middle East Magazine

    Fire Middle East archive
  35. 2020September 2020
    Technical article, co-authored

    The British Cladding Fire Test Gets Revised

    WFM / Window & Façade Magazine

    WFM archive
  36. 20202020
    Published article

    Role of Product Certification in Building Materials

    LinkedIn — published May 3, 2020

    Read article
  37. 20202020
    Published article

    The British Cladding Fire Test Gets Revised

    Window & Façade Magazine, July–August 2020 — co-authored with Sujana Haridas

    Read magazine issue / article
  38. 2019January 2019
    Journal / technical paper

    Does A Large-Scale Fire Propagation Test Ensure A Fire-Safe Cladding?

    CTBUH Journal 2019 Issue I

    Read PDF
  39. 2019March 2019
    Technical article

    Understanding Testing of Façade Materials for Fire Safety

    WFM / Window & Façade Magazine

    Read article
  40. 2019June 2019
    Technical article, co-authored

    Changes to the 2019 Revision of NFPA 285 Test Method

    WFM / Window & Façade Magazine

    Magazine issue / article
  41. 2019Jul/Aug 2019
    Technical article

    Using Fire Doors to Maintain Fire Safety

    WFM / Window & Façade Magazine India

    Read via Thomas Bell-Wright archive
  42. 2019October 2019
    Technical article

    Correct Tools for Assurance of Properties of Building Materials

    Gulf Fire

    Read article
  43. 20182018
    Published article

    Cladding Industry should watch its Calories

    LinkedIn — published Jul 8, 2018

    Read article
  44. 20172017
    Published article

    Cladding Cladding Burning or Bright

    LinkedIn — published Jun 28, 2017

    Read article
  45. 20172017
    Published article

    Fire Safety using Compliance to Codes

    LinkedIn — published Oct 12, 2017; explicitly described as the first article in a series

    Read article
  46. 2016March 2016
    Magazine article

    Certification Vital to Ensure Safety

    Gulf Construction

    Read article
  47. 2014May–Jun 2014
    Magazine article

    Quality Checks for Building Façade

    Window & Façade Magazine

    Read article / archive

Speaking, interviews and webinars

Speaking and media

  1. 202608 January 2026
    International webinar · Host

    The Global Language of Passive Fire Protection – Part 2

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA archive
  2. 202605 February 2026
    Webinar · Speaker / host

    The Global Language of Passive Fire Protection – Part 3

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA archive
  3. 202626 March 2026
    Webinar · Speaker / host

    The Global Language of Passive Fire Protection – Part 4

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA archive
  4. 202616 April 2026
    Webinar · Speaker / host

    The Global Language of Passive Fire Protection – Part 5

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA archive
  5. 202629 January 2026
    FPA Australia webinar · Guest speaker

    The Global Language of Firestopping – DIIM in Focus

    Recording/event confirmed

    FPA Australia
  6. 202619 February 2026
    FPA Australia webinar · Guest speaker

    D'esigning Maintainable Compartmentation – Episode 2

    Recording/event confirmed

    FPA Australia
  7. 202609 April 2026
    FPA Australia webinar · Guest speaker

    The Power of the 'I'nspection – Episode 4

    Recording/event confirmed

    FPA Australia
  8. 202623 April 2026
    FPA Australia webinar · Guest speaker

    Are You 'M'aintaining Functionality or Fire Safety? – Episode 5

    Recording/event confirmed

    FPA Australia
  9. 202607 May 2026
    Fire Australia presentation · Presenter

    From Last Line of Defence to First Point of Failure

    Recording not located

    Fire Australia
  10. 20262026
    Global webinar / YouTube · Featured FCIA leadership

    Connecting the Global Firestop Family

    DIRECT YouTube

    No public link located
  11. 202509 January 2025
    Webinar · Speaker / panel

    The Power of the 'I'nspection

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA recording archive
  12. 202524 January 2025
    SFPE webinar · Speaker

    The Global Language of Firestopping

    Recording exists

    SFPE recording page
  13. 202520 March 2025
    Webinar · Speaker / moderator

    Are You 'M'aintaining Functionality of Fire Safety?

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA recording archive
  14. 202523 April 2025
    YouTube webinar · Panelist

    Building Codes & Fire Test Standards Around the World

    DIRECT YouTube

    Watch on YouTube
  15. 202529 April 2025
    Webinar · Guest speaker

    The Global Language of Firestopping and Compartmentation

    Recording / event page

    FPA Australia
  16. 202514 May 2025
    Fire Australia presentation · Presenter

    The Global Language of Firestopping

    Recording not located

    Fire Australia programme
  17. 202507 August 2025
    FCIA webinar · Panelist

    Abu Dhabi Fire Safety Evolution: Decoding the New Certification Circular

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA webinar archive
  18. 202527 August 2025
    Conference presentation · Presenter

    Facade Fire Safety – SIPP / ABPP Brazil

    Video preview DIRECT; main speech not located

    Abhishek's Brazil video/post
  19. 20252025
    Video / interview · Guest

    ABPP Café – Abhishek Chhabra

    Confirmed YouTube episode; exact episode URL not indexed

    No public link located
  20. 202511 December 2025
    Webinar · Speaker / host

    The Global Language of Passive Fire Protection – Part 1

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA archive
  21. 202402 January 2024
    Conference / livestream · Moderator

    Fire Safe Build India 2024 — multiple panel discussions

    Livestream confirmed

    Abhishek's FSBI account of the event
  22. 202423 September 2024
    Panel · Panelist

    CTBUH London Workshop – Fire Safety / Fire Evacuation

    Recording not located

    No public link located
  23. 202429 November 2024
    Webinar · Speaker

    Understanding the Global Language of Firestopping & Passive Fire Protection

    Recording not publicly located

    CAHO webinar record
  24. 202427 November 2024
    Podcast · Guest

    179 – Assurance in Fire Safety with Abhishek Chhabra

    DIRECT

    Fire Science Show episode
  25. 202404 October 2024
    Webinar · Speaker / moderator

    The Golden Thread of Passive Fire Protection

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA recording archive
  26. 202414 November 2024
    Webinar · Speaker

    D'esigning Maintainable Compartmentation

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA recording archive
  27. 202412 December 2024
    Webinar · Speaker

    I'nstalling PFP That Saves Lives, Property, and Money Too!

    Recording confirmed

    FCIA recording archive
  28. 20222022-06
    Symposium / panel · Panelist

    FCIA Fire Code and Firestop & Effective Compartmentation – Dubai

    Recording possibility; not publicly located

    FCIA programme
  29. 20222022-06
    Symposium / panel · Panelist

    FCIA Fire Code and Fire & Smoke Barrier DIIM Symposium – Doha

    Recording possibility; not publicly located

    FCIA programme
  30. 202214 October 2022
    Conference / livestream · Presenter

    Building a Fire Safe India: Evolving Codes and Compliances

    Livestream confirmed; recording URL not located

    FSBI event record
  31. 20222022
    Conference presentation · Presenter

    Understanding Fire Safety Compliance of Facades

    Presentation confirmed; video not located

    Tall Buildings Fire Safety archive
  32. 202124 June 2021
    Webinar · Speaker

    Methods to Contain & Prevent Spread of Fire in Hospitals

    Recording not located

    CAHO record
  33. 20182018
    Interview · Interviewee

    Interview: Abhishek Chhabra, Thomas Bell-Wright International Consultants

    DIRECT PAGE / interview

    Fire Buyer interview
  34. 20182018
    Conference presentation/panel · Presenter + panelist

    Safety Design in Buildings – Kuwait

    Recording not located

    Conference record
  35. 20182018
    Conference/panel · Panelist

    Safety Design in Buildings – Muscat

    Recording not located

    Gulf Fire reference
  36. 20162016
    Panel · Guest speaker

    Dubai Design Week / Mirage Project Point — fire safety & fire-resistant materials panel

    Recording not located

    No public link located