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Services

EXPLORE OUR SERVICES

Across our global partnership of experts, clients and communities, we are recognized worldwide for our leadership in fire protection engineering, a legacy of responsibility we have advanced with pride since 1939. Today, our expertise extends broadly across closely related risk management fields — from accessibility consulting, risk and hazard analysis, process safety and forensic investigations to security risk consulting, emergency management and digital innovation. As we champion best practices, set industry standards and support communities with innovative solutions, we are making the world a better place.

From fire system design and testing to code consulting and building commissioning to structural, mechanical and electrical design, our designers, engineers, scientists and consultants lead the development of innovative solutions for complex safety challenges.

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Code Consulting + Fire Engineering

  • Advanced Modeling
  • AHJ Representation + Plan Review
  • Code Consulting + Performance Based Design
  • Fire + Life Safety Systems Design
  • Fire Safety Assessment + Audits
  • Fire + Life Safety Building Commissioning
  • Pre-Construction Administration + Oversight
  • Smoke Control + Modeling

Our team of experts offers comprehensive services to a diverse range of clients in the built environment, such as architects, building owners, government agencies, and local authorities. Regardless of industry, we help these clients achieve scalability, adaptability, and resilience for their people and locations.

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Built Environment + Resiliency

  • Accessibility + Universal Design
  • Audits
  • Healthcare Compliance + Life Safety Assessments
  • Life Safety + Performance-Based Design
  • Mass Timber Consulting
  • Wildfire Risk Mitigation

Our team of experts provides comprehensive services to address emerging hazards, such as combustible dust, battery safety, and hazardous chemicals, across a wide range of uses – from manufacturing plants and laboratories to energy storage systems.

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Emerging Hazards

  • Combustible Dust Safety
  • Industrial + Process Safety
  • Hazardous Materials
  • Lithium-ion Battery Technology
  • Laboratory Services
  • Wildfire Risk Mitigation
  • Modeling Services
  • Environmental

Our team of risk-informed engineers, nuclear fire protection experts and regulatory affairs consultants is one of the most diverse and industry-leading in the world. For over 30 years, we have been the principal developers of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) methods and technology.

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Energy + Utilities

  • Advanced Reactor Consulting
  • Fire Protection Programs + Safe Shutdown
  • Hydrogen Safety Consulting
  • Mechanical, Electrical + Structural Engineering
  • Risk Informed Assessments + PRA Applications
  • Transmission + Distribution

We work closely with clients in industry and government to establish an all-hazards approach to comprehensive, well-defined emergency preparedness, crisis management, emergency response, business continuity, and consequence management plans that span all critical phases.

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Emergency Management + Response

  • Digital Solutions
  • Emergency Response
  • Healthcare Emergency Management
  • Public Fire + Emergency Response Planning
  • Training

Leveraging methodologies that emphasize prevention, our experts assess your risks, threats, and vulnerabilities and help you design and implement countermeasures that give you confidence that you’re taking the right steps to manage your security-related risks.

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Security Risk + Public Safety

  • Due Diligence Investigations
  • Law Enforcement Consulting
  • Private Client + Family Office
  • Security Design
  • Security Risk Management
  • Threat + Violence Risk Management

Our experts can help determine the origin and cause of fires, injuries, electrical and mechanical failures. We also perform root cause analyses of product, structural, or building envelope failures; investigate progressive collapse of buildings, and perform materials testing and inspection in our state-of-the-art laboratories.

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Forensics

  • Biomechanical
  • Chemical (Lab)
  • Electrical
  • Fire
  • Litigation Support
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanical
  • Metallurgical
  • Structural
  • Vehicle Accident Reconstruction

By The Numbers

Since
1939

30+ combined firms
80+ years of innovation

40,000
Global Projects

Across 90+ offices
in 100+ countries

1,700
Employees

Industry leadership participation on 450+ international committees

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Where Innovative Solutions Meet Deep Expertise

While many of our services and solutions are utilised across various markets and applications, dozens of others are highly specialised and unique to one industry or another. Our industries include:

  • Aviation
  • Commercial + Mixed Use
  • Education
  • Government + Military
  • Healthcare
  • Hospitality + Entertainment
  • Manufacturing
  • Mission Critical
  • Nuclear Power
  • Petroleum, Oil + Gas
  • Power
  • Science + Technology
  • Transit + Tunnels
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.

Our Offices
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