Fire Protection + Life Safety Engineering
Maximum safety to mitigate risk
Precis fire protection and life safety engineers offer expertise from analysis and interpretation of building codes and standards to the design of safe and reliable fire protection systems that protect the facilities we design and those who occupy them.
Our engineers are highly aware of the potential significant risks associated with performance-critical facilities, and they have the knowledge and experience to provide solutions to mitigate those risks, whether building construction options, means of egress, hazardous materials storage/use or fire suppression and alarm system design. We provide these services with the goal of ensuring compliance with applicable codes, regulations, and standards, but always with a regard for the needs of all involved: owner, users, insurance underwriters, and authorities having jurisdiction.
Our specialized building expertise encompasses pharmaceutical + biotechnology, GMP manufacturing, laboratory + research, warehousing, mission critical, higher education, and corporate + commercial facilities. In designing fire protection, life safety, and fire alarm systems, we consistently look for ways to balance maximum safety and protection with practical cost.
- Water-based fire sprinkler/standpipe system design
- Fire pump design
- Clean agent, water mist, wet/dry chemical, foam and other special hazard suppression systems design
- Fire alarm and detection systems design
- Passive fire protection/fire-resistant construction analyses
- Smoke management systems design
- Hazardous materials storage, use, and handling guidelines
- Fire water supply analyses and hydraulic calculations
- Hazardous Area Classification (HAC) studies
- Building code analysis and interpretation
- Peer review of fire protection designs
- Fire protection Building Information Modeling (BIM)
