Fire and Life Safety

WSP’s fire and life safety team provides creative solutions to meet the requirements of creative building designs via a variety of service offerings. We leverage our experience and expertise to meet the collective technical challenges inherent in modern buildings, navigating codes and standards to identify solutions that will balance the desired design with necessary compliance requirements.

We provide active participation throughout the life of a project, beginning with concept and continuing to occupancy, providing a high level of expertise and service to our clients throughout. Our team contributes at all phases of the design and construction process, helping to identify and resolve issues early on and ensure that requirements are maintained through completion.

Fire and life safety experts work to translate and negotiate the requirements of code officials and marry those with client preferences and vision. Our team draws on over 30 years of experience with active involvement including the National Fire Protection Association, Society of Fire Protection Engineers and the International Code Council to deliver cost-effective solutions that meet all regulatory compliance challenges.

WSP’s fire and life safety community consists of more than 250 experts worldwide who work in close collaboration, sharing best practices and knowledge. Our mission is to deliver quality, innovation and value to our clients, integrating fire safety into the design process in line with local conditions and codes.

Fire safety cannot be understood or approached in isolation. Our global expertise and relationships with other disciplines at WSP brings additional dimension to our work, providing an efficient project delivery model and bringing commercial benefits to our clients.

We provide a broad range of services to deliver fire-safe buildings that are also functional and economical. These include the development of fire safety strategies, fire engineering design and specification, fire safety audits, fire risk assessments, computer simulation for fire dynamics, value engineering exercises, and peer reviews.

We provide code consulting expertise and solutions related to:

— Building and fire code consulting
— Smoke Control modeling and strategies
— Evacuation modeling and strategies
— Negotiations with authorities having jurisdiction
— Performance-based designs
— Risk assessments
— Fire hazard analysis
— Litigation support

We also provide investigation, evaluation, design, construction review and commissioning services related to a broad range of fire protection specialties including:

— Fire pump and fire protection water supplies
— Sprinkler and standpipe design and calculations
— Fire alarm and emergency communication system design
— Smoke management system concept design and analysis
— Statement of condition surveys
— Fire protection/life safety master plans
— Egress analysis and design
— Commissioning of fire protection and smoke control systems
— Due diligence surveys
— Third party reviews