Red Helmet Engineering offers life safety and fire protection code consulting
Life Safety Services
Fire and life safety are pivotal considerations in today’s building designs. The integration of fire protection, life safety, fire alarm systems, and other protection systems into the design of all building types is essential for safety, property protection, and code compliance.
Red Helmet Engineering provides the following life safety services:
Code Consulting, Peer Review and Third-Party Plan Review Services
Each project shall follow certain codes and standard to reach the minimum safety required by the stakeholders. Red Helmet Engineering team can provide a code consulting service to their clients to satisfy the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) requirements. Our team have a high level of experience in local and international codes and standards including but not limited to NFPA, IBC, IFC. In Addition, to local codes and civil department special requirements.
Also, Red Helmet Engineering team is ready to provide a peer review or third party plan review services for any type of projects to ensure the high quality of output design.
Performance based Design
Performance based design is an alternative approach for the perspective codes. By using performance-based design, the design team can achieve goals that may not have been anticipated by the building code, while maintaining or exceeding the facility’s required level of safety.
Red Helmet Engineering can offer an innovative design idea to raise the level of safety provided to our projects.
Smoke Control System
Red Helmet Engineering can offer a smoke control design for a wide range of occupancy types including the following:
CONTAM network airflow models can provide proof of concept solutions to elevator pressurization systems that may need to work in conjunction with other smoke control systems. This will provide some assurance to owners that the system will operate as intended before testing the system for the first time.
CFD and Egress Modeling
By using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) smoke modeling in conjunction with egress modeling, performance-based smoke control designs offer architects more design flexibility and provide owners with simpler systems to maintain. CFD smoke modeling may be used to reduce the total amount of smoke exhaust needed for a smoke control system, or it may be able to reduce the total amount of free area used to introduce makeup air into an atrium by allowing makeup air velocities faster than those limited by the prescriptive code requirements.
Suppression and Alarm systems
Red Helmet fire protection engineers can provide fire suppression and fire alarm design services for new and existing buildings across a wide range of market sectors. Red Helmet team collaborates with design teams and all stakeholders to provide design drawings, fire protection narratives, hydraulic calculations, and construction support services.
Our engineers provide a complete fire protection solution that satisfies Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) and meets the needs of the project stakeholders.
Fire Structure Service
Red Helmet Engineering can provide a full fire structure analysis to help the structure team better estimate the fire load during the fully developed fires. The fire safety structure has been developed recently with new techniques to save the building structure from failure.
Compared to the perspective codes requirement, the performance-based design helps increase accuracy by defining the design fire load inside the premise. Saving money and achieving an acceptable level of structure is our goal during the design.
In addition to previous services, Red Helmet Engineering provides the following services:
