Mr. Hauf is Osborn’s Director of Fire Protection and Life Safety Engineering. His career experience includes evaluation and design from concept through commissioning for new or retrofit facilities across multiple vertical markets. He has been involved with manufacturing, product development and turn-key systems installation. This range of experience balances his insights across stakeholder perspectives. Joseph’s areas of expertise include fire and smoke-rated passive features for fire resistance and fire-stopping, interrelationships between active and passive fire protection systems for holistic protection of fire and temperature control, building and fire codes and standards compliance, fire and egress computer modeling, as well as mediation, arbitration and litigation expert support for fire and life safety matters. His trusted voice approach optimizes prescriptive and performance-based outcomes.