What makes Fire Protection Engineers different from engineers in other disciplines?
Fire Protection Engineers (FPE) are specially trained through their education and experience to deal with fire and life safety problems in a holistic manner. We focus on our clients’ fire safety objectives and we develop methods to achieve these objectives, which are identified in terms of life safety, property protection, and continuity of operations. FPEs do more than merely design sprinkler and fire alarm systems. We understand systems design and performance, but we also understand that code requirements are minimum standards that often are inadequate in addressing a building owner’s special needs. We are trained to assess fire hazards and risks, and we focus on the integration of building fire safety systems within the context of the building architecture in a way that meets or exceeds the clients’ needs. FPEs understand the basis and intent of building and fire code requirements, so when a design challenges the strict requirements of the code we can develop creative performance-ba
