Fire Safety Engineering Services
Key Services
- Alternative Solutions to code requirements involving smoke hazard management, egress, structural fire resistance and fire protection.
- Performance-based fire-safety design in both new and existing building projects, with sensitivity to and expertise with heritage issues.
- Quantitative risk analysis.
- Crowd movement modelling and analysis.
- Fire and Life safety assessments of tunnels including risk assessments to rationalise intermediate access and other requirements.
- Assessments involving international fire codes.
- Expert witness and investigative services, including forensic modelling.
Tools
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): Phoenics and FDS.
- Zone Models: Firewind and Fast.
- Egress Simulation: Pedroute, Simulex, "Wayout" and Evacnet.
- Structural / Thermal Models: Radtherm and "Radiation".
- Risk Analysis: Monte Carlo Simulation and @Risk.
- In-house Models: Tunnel Risk Assessment For Fires and Other Catastrophes (TRAFFIC), gauze radiation attenuation model, solid angle to right angle area equivalence model, "Plughole" smoke extraction model, "Tester" reliability model.