Meet Our Fire Experts

Herbert W. Stansberry II Herb Stansberry is the Engineering Supervisor at Intertek’s Elmendorf, Texas testing facility. Herb was first exposed to fire testing in 1990, when employed with Omega Point Laboratories. During his career, Herb has been involved with conducting standardized fire tests including the Steiner Tunnel (ASTM E84), furniture and room calorimetry, fire resistance testing of building materials, expansion joint systems and through-penetration firestops for commercial construction and nuclear power plant installations, the White House Roofing test, Intermediate Scale Multi-story Apparatus (ISMA) testing and has been involved in test programs for non-standard testing, for litigation reconstruction and standards development as well as many fire test programs for the nuclear industry. Herb’s primary role is the technical oversight and exploration/expansion of the laboratory’s test programs and capabilities. Herb has also worked in the commercial construction industry as a system integrator with over a decade of experience engaging and/or partnering with facility owners, architects, specifying engineers, AHJs, inspectors and commissioning agents. Herb is currently active with ASTM Committee E05 on Fire Standards, serving as the Chairman of Subcommittee E05.11 on Fire Resistance, Subcommittee E06.21 and UL’s Standards Technical Panels.

Ethan Grove Ethan Grove is the Manager of both Laboratory Fire Testing as well as Mobile Fire Apparatus Testing at Intertek’s York, PA test facility. Ethan began his tenure in 2011 as a test technician, assisting in bringing the lab and its equipment online and accredited for testing. Through his career, he has advanced up to Manager of the lab after bringing equipment online such as the Steiner tunnel, roof testing apparatus, an Intermediate-scale Multistory Testing Apparatus (ISMA), a full-scale vertical furnace, a hood calorimeter, and a radiant panel for exterior walls. Ethan is involved in several ASTM E05 task groups and subcommittees for test methods linked to the equipment he has commissioned.

In 2021, Ethan and several members of his team started Intertek’s Mobile Fire Apparatus Testing group, which provides testing services for equipment owned and operated by fire departments and commercial fire brigades in and around the York, PA area, extending to Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey and New York. Ethan is leading the effort to create and commission new and more accurate testing equipment, which will provide superior repeatability and safety for the testing required by NFPA and compliant municipalities. Ethan has over 8 years in the volunteer fire service as a firefighter and over 11 years of accredited testing experience, both in test execution and management, and is increasing Intertek’s presence in NFPA for the specific test committees that Intertek tests to.

Deepesh Srivastava is a testing and certification services’ professional and has been working in this field for more than 11 years. From 2011 to 2016, Deepesh Srivastava worked with an international fire rated glass manufacturer and was involved in fire testing of glazed applications to various BS and EN fire resistance test methods. In August 2016, Deepesh Srivastava joined Intertek's Building and Construction team in UAE and has been handling fire testing and certification projects including activities like writing test plans, product sampling, fire testing, preparation of evaluation reports/certification documents and carrying out audits as part of follow up service inspections. His area of key focus at Intertek has been fire doors and glazed applications based on his previous work experience. Since 2020, he is working in the role of a Senior Project Engineer and acts as an approved reviewer for projects related to fire doors and glazed applications which involves making evaluation decisions related to test standards like BS 476 Part 22, EN 1364-1, EN 1634-1, EN 1364-3, UL 10C, NFPA 252, UL 10B, UL 263 and ASTM E119.

Salvatore Balletta Sal is the lead Fire Testing Technician at Intertek Coquitlam, and his primary role involves testing various Building Products per North American fire standards. Sal has 7+ years of experience testing to the requirements of numerous large-scale standards such as ASTM E108, ASTM E119, ASTM E814, UL 10(b) and (c), NFPA 286, and their Canadian equivalent standards.