Engineering and Consulting
With over 20 years of its founder’s experiences to provide safety against fire, in the commercial and industrial marketplaces, we understand the fire system needs you will have for your business. WAFCO can meet the specifications for your project’s needs, manage the bid process and help with the engineering and design. Depending on your needs, we can be your fire protection consultant on hand.
Each project and type of assets has a different set of requirements for Fire Protection systems. Our NFPA Certified engineers routinely draw on their deep knowledge of code requirements and regulatory intent to provide code consulting and architectural support to develop and obtain approval for code equivalencies, variances, or alternate means and methods. According to NFPA 101 “Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety” Whether you need a Fire Protection system for new construction or updating old systems in existing buildings, we can help provide you with the technical aspects of the project. Our consulting services allow you to continue with your day job, while we focus on the Fire Protection needs of your projects.
We offer the following Fire Protection Consulting services:
- Specification writing for fire alarm, mass notification, and fire suppression systems
- Bid scope and clarification documents
- Project management
- Engineering for fire alarm and fire suppression systems
- Hazard analysis and classification
- Consulting for NFPA Codes requirements such as:
- NFPA 101: Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety
- NFPA 5000: Building Construction and Safety Code