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Minimizing risk, maximizing safety, and mitigating hazards to protect life and property.

Fire Protection + Life Safety Engineering

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 regard for the needs of all involved: owners, users, insurance underwriters, and authorities having jurisdiction. In designing fire protection, life safety, and fire alarm systems, we consistently look for ways to balance maximum safety and protection with practical cost.

fire protection + life safety engineering services:

  • Comprehensive fire + life safety systems design
  • Water-based fire sprinkler + standpipe systems
  • Fire pumps
  • Special hazard fire suppression (clean agent, water mist, wet/dry chemical, foam + other new suppression technologies)
  • Fire alarm + detection systems
  • Passive fire protection
  • Fire-resistant construction analyses
  • Smoke management systems
  • Hazmat storage, use + handling requirements
  • Control area requirements and analyses
  • Fire water supply analyses + hydraulic calculations
  • Hazardous area classification (HAC) studies
  • Building code analysis + interpretation
  • Building information modeling (BIM)
  • Peer review