Advanced Consulting Solutions Group

Partners with clients to ensure projects achieve full code compliance while preserving the original design intent of the spaces.

• Fire Protection and Life Safety Code Consulting

  Provides comprehensive code consulting and fire safety assessments, integrating value-add options that incorporate input from all stakeholders.

• Fire Protection Reports

  Develops permittable Fire Protection Reports (FPRs) and Tenant Improvement Fire Protection Reports (TIFPRs) in collaboration with design teams.

• Master Egress Planning

  Designs master egress systems and life safety drawings to maximize spatial efficiency and support regulatory approval.

• Fire Suppression and Fire Alarm Design

  Generates conceptual drawings and detailed specifications for fire suppression and alarm systems across private, public, government, and military developments.

• Alternative Design and AHJ Negotiation

  Develops performance-based designs and navigates regulatory processes to negotiate alternative means and methods with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs).

• Third Party Design Review and Inspections

  Performs independent reviews of fire protection and life safety designs to verify compliance with the code of record, permits, and bid documents.

• Fire/Smoke and Egress Modeling

  Utilizes computational modeling software like CONTAM, Pyrosim, and Pathfinder to conduct rational analyses for smoke control validation, travel distance extensions, and occupant loads.

Delivers strategic fire safety engineering for industrial processes, hazardous materials, and complex facilities to achieve required standards with minimal operational disruption.

• Chemical Hazard Analysis

  Conducts detailed hazardous materials analyses, including control area master planning, maximum allowable quantity (MAQ) analysis, and high-hazard Group-H consulting.

• Dust Hazard Analysis

  Performs combustible dust hazard analyses in compliance with Fire Code Chapter 22, collaborating with process engineers to prevent unnecessary overdesign.

• High-Piled Storage Analysis and Permitting

  Generates high-piled storage reports and permit documentation in accordance with Fire Code Chapter 32, serving as a liaison between design and operations teams.

• Lithium-Ion Battery Protection Consulting

  Provides advanced consulting for the strategic protection, manufacturing, storage, and recycling of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicle and other high-tech applications.

Provides expert oversight and coordination of fire safety systems throughout the project lifecycle to prevent construction and certificate of occupancy delays.

• Construction Administration Services

  Manages contractor bid reviews and recommendations, shop drawing reviews, system installation inspections, testing, and as-built drawing reviews.