Innovative Safety and Accessibility Solutions for Hospitality + Entertainment Venues

The hospitality sector is experiencing a dynamic shift as it increasingly merges with the entertainment industry, leading to the creation of multi-purpose venues that serve diverse functions. This blending of industries introduces a range of complex safety and accessibility challenges that require innovative approaches to address effectively. While prescriptive building codes are necessary to ensure safety, they can sometimes restrict design creativity, limiting the potential of what these spaces can offer. As a result, it's crucial to develop solutions that strike a balance between imaginative, cutting-edge design and strict regulatory compliance.

Whether you're embarking on the construction of a new hotel, transforming existing spaces into multi-functional venues, or planning large-scale events that involve both hospitality and entertainment, our team is committed to partnering with you every step of the way.

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Combining Vision with Compliance

In recent decades, the hospitality industry has adapted building safety and security to address unprecedented hazards and threats. Our unparalleled expertise in performance-based and alternative design solutions keeps your guests and staff safe, while also meeting your aesthetic, functional, and budgetary requirements. Furthermore, we help you implement effective ongoing operating and maintenance processes, and provide rapid assessments to address any business disruptions.

Helping You Provide the Utmost Safety to Your Guests + Staff

By partnering with leading hotel brands, owners, developers, and architects, we identify risks, review code requirements, and deliver compliant, safety-focused solutions for hospitality venues. Leveraging our deep industry expertise and understanding of hospitality trends and operations, we help you provide a world-class guest experience while ensuring full compliance with all relevant codes and standards. Prioritizing critical guest and staff safety, we safeguard your business and brand reputation.

Hospitality + Entertainment Industry Services

Learn more about our service offerings for hospitality and events facilities.

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AHJ Representation + Plan Review

Whether a project is a renovation, addition, tenant fit out, or new construction, all facility designs are subject to compliance…
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Code Consulting + Performance Based Design

Interpreting and applying building and fire safety codes can be a daunting task. With our in-depth knowledge of the regulatory…
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Fire + Life Safety Building Commissioning

Without the right commissioning it is challenging to ensure that your fire and life safety systems will meet code minimum,…
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Fire + Life Safety Systems Design

Fire and life safety are pivotal considerations in today’s building designs. The integration of fire alarm systems, fire…
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Hazardous Materials

Our global experts draw on our code, design and analysis expertise to create a prioritized mitigation strategy through onsite…
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Lithium-ion Battery Technology

Lithium-ion technology is evolving faster than regulatory bodies can track. Our experts provide custom and performance-based life…
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Pedestrian + Evacuation Modeling

Knowing the performance of your facility during day-to-day operations is critical to understand. Whether it is a concert hall,…
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Pre-Construction Administration + Oversight

We work seamlessly alongside the construction management team to make sure the fire, life safety, mechanical, electrical,…
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Smoke Control + Modeling

Codes and Standards require fire safety features based on a one-size fits all approach. While traditional compliance may be…
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By the Numbers

Audits
500+

Conducted for fire and life safety, worldwide

5,000+
Properties

New Builds/Conversions
3000+ Openings
3000+ PIP

600+
CapEx

Global Hospitality Projects

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We partner with you to solve complex challenges throughout the project lifecycle

While many of our services and solutions are utilized across various markets and applications, dozens of others are highly specialized and unique to one industry or another. From aviation, power and healthcare to nuclear energy, insurance and manufacturing, our team of engineers and consultants includes the most experienced industry experts from around the world.

  • Fire Engineering + Systems Design
  • Code Consulting + Built Environment
  • Emerging Hazards
  • Energy + Utilities
Our Office Locations

With offices around the world and team members on the ground in key regions, our global reach and vital in-country expertise enable us to deliver solutions that meet the specific needs of our clients and the communities we serve.

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