Joe Wooding
Chartered Engineer at RISK ASSESSMENT ASSOCIATES LIMITED
Bedford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Wooding is a Chartered Engineer and building safety specialist with over 25 years in construction and more than a decade delivering building control, fire strategy and external wall risk assessments across the UK. He leads complex PAS 9980 FREW assessments and retrospective fire strategy design, translating regulatory change (Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety Act 2021) into pragmatic, cost-conscious remediation plans for multi-occupancy buildings. As Director of RAA and a senior surveyor with NHBC pedigree, he combines hands-on site experience with technical review and stakeholder liaison, including Building Control and Fire & Rescue services. Unusually for a senior built-environment professional, Joe also contributes to open-source front-end projects—most notably Material-UI and Storybook—bringing practical React and UI/UX insight to widely used developer tools. Based in Bedford, he bridges regulatory rigor and modern software-driven workflows to produce defensible, well-documented compliance outcomes. Colleagues rely on him for clear, evidence-based recommendations that balance safety, cost and constructability.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
2.1 BSc HONS Building Surveying, 2.1 BSc HONS Building Surveying at University of BedfordshireLevel 6 External Wall System Assessment, Level 6 External Wall System Assessment at ABBE
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
react-components10
storybook10
ui-components10
typescript10
vite10
ui-design10
react-component10
material-design10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
mdx9
css8
testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/builder-vite
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
A builder plugin to run and build Storybooks with Vite
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:114 reviews, 45 commits, 65 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Storybook builder for Vite, focusing on front-end related tasks. Their contributions included implementing feature flags, optimizing dependencies, and supporting new features like `storyStoreV7`. They also made changes to the iframe and code generation scripts, and integrated `react-docgen-typescript` for improved component documentation. Additionally, the user addressed various bugs and improved the build process.
vitejsbuilderviteplugin-buildertypescript
mui/material-ui
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 61 reviews, 114 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the Material UI library by addressing various UI-related issues and implementing new features. Their work included fixing text color issues, introducing a disableShrink property for the CircularProgress component, and adding a new example for TypographyMenu. They also added a virtualized table demo, demonstrating expertise in React component development and customization. The user improved the accessibility of the library with a new link component.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
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