CODE RED CONSULTANTS LLC
SOUTHBOROUGH, MA

Navigating through complicated and evolving building, fire, and life safety codes to ensure or maintain code compliance and provide a fire-safe environment can be a daunting task. Code Red Consultants prides itself on cutting to the chase when it comes to code compliance. Our approach is simple - we focus on easing our client’s pain by simplifying complex code requirements, developing innovative and creative solutions, and ultimately delivering a successful project that meets all of the stakeholders’ needs. Our core services are related to providing fire protection and life safety consulting for our clients. From new design projects to evaluating code deficiencies in existing buildings, we can help to make sure your building or project is code compliant. Where the provisions of the code can’t be met, we regularly develop equivalencies, variances, and alternative methods of design to meet the needs of our clients. With significant experience designing and testing smoke control systems, Code Red Consultants provides flexible smoke control designs that focus on efficiency and constructability. In the role of a smoke control special inspector, this experience allows us to quickly identify and resolve constructability issues in the design. The result is a smoke control system that is properly integrated with other building systems ensuring that it will operate correctly in time for the fire department acceptance test. SYSTEM COMMISSIONING & INSPECTIONS SYSTEM COMMISSIONING & INSPECTIONS Fire protection and life safety systems are small in scale when compared to the design and installation of the MEP systems. However, it is these critical systems that hold the key to the certificate of occupancy and safety of building occupants. We understand the integration of these systems and have the expertise to perform not only field inspection and integrated testing, but also help develop a comprehensive commissioning program to ensure the systems are installed correctly and operate as intended. Code Red Consultants provides third party review services for smoke control system design, fire alarm design, fire protection design, and code compliance. We also provide third party review services for building and fire officials where the project complexity or workload dictates the need for additional assistance. Utilizing Code Red Consultants for third party reviews helps to ensure that the building is designed and constructed in accordance with the required codes and standards. Compliance with regulatory life safety requirements can be challenging and nerve­wracking. Code Red Consultants understands regulatory agency procedures and requirements and can help to provide piece of mind during your next unannounced survey. We regularly provide Statement of Conditions (SOC) life safety assessments and prepare master life safety plans to ensure compliance is maintained for our healthcare clients. Where compliance with the prescriptive requirements cannot be met, we provide cost effective solutions through the development of traditional equivalencies and Fire Safety Evaluation Systems (FSES). Whether it’s flammable and combustible liquids or pyrophoric gases, the hazardous materials present in laboratory and industrial occupancies present unique and difficult fire protection and life safety challenges. Our engineers have a long history of working in this marketplace and understand the compliance options associated with making sure occupancies housing these materials are properly protected. Our capabilities include everything from performing chemical classifications to developing comprehensive compliance plans that involve both fire protection and chemical control and containment requirements. Code Red Consultants prepares NFPA 241, Construction Fire Safety Plans and Impairment Plans for building owners and general contractors. Our fire protection engineers work to minimize fire and life safety risks to contractors and building occupants while at the same time providing the code required documentation necessary to limit delays with issuance of building permits and / or occupancy. Whether it’s a new project requiring a building permit or an impairment to a life safety system in an existing building, compliance with NFPA 241 can be a challenge depending on the means and methods chosen to deliver a project. By understanding the intent of the code along with the common concerns of building and fire departments, Code Red Consultants works hand in hand with authorities to develop equivalent means of compliance tailored to the specific challenges of unique projects. Code Red Consultants uses cutting-edge technology to create performance based approaches that comply with the intent of the building code. Whether it's using computational fluid dynamics computer models to evaluate atrium smoke control systems or using finite element heat transfer models to evaluate the fire resistance of a structural frame, performance­ based approaches provide our clients with additional design flexibility and can reduce construction costs significantly over prescriptive code requirements. Code Red Consultants provides special inspections for firestop and fire-resistant joint systems as mandated by certain regulatory and owner requirements. Our backgrounds as fire protection engineers along with the completion of extensive firestop training and certification programs make us uniquely qualified to serve as third party special inspectors. The advantage of having a fire protection engineer perform firestop and fire-resistant joint systems is the ability to identify and evaluate alternative compliance options and engineering judgements where prescriptive compliance is not feasible. Our work as code consultants gives us extensive experience in communicating these alternative compliance options to the Authorities Having Jurisdictions and key project stakeholders. Our registered fire protection engineers provide fire suppression and fire alarm design services for new and existing buildings across a wide range of market sectors. We work directly with building owners or as part of a design team to provide design drawings, fire protection narratives, sequences of operation, design calculations and construction support services. Our engineers provide a complete fire alarm and fire protection solution that satisfies Authorities Having Jurisdiction and meets the needs of the project stakeholders.