Fire & Safety Solutions for Your Industry

For high-tech facilities, Global is often retained to design and commission the installation of fast detection system (such as VESDA) and clean agent extinguishing systems to provide very early fire detection and very clean automatic suppression to minimize the required clean up and eliminate potential damage incurred from installing water based fire extinguishing systems.

Global provides Fire Protection Design Basis Reports as well as the corresponding completed systems design for all types of refinery and process facilities. We provide our clients with an unparalleled knowledge of national and International standards related to your facility, and we provide a common sense perspective combined with good engineering practice in providing the best possible approach to protecting these facilities.

Our engineering analysis and design experience aids in ensuring that the project design team has what it needs to provide the appropriate protection standards in place, notification is efficient, and planned movement is defined. Our work in the areas of systems design, Engineering Judgements review, plan review, and systems commissioning round out a comprehensive and secure approach to life safety.

Global provides full-scale code analyses for office buildings, including Building Code consulting, Fire Code consulting, and site egress analyses. We seek to provide an invaluable level of service to our clients through negotiating with local authorities where we feel that an equivalent level of protection can be provided. We also provide all types of fire protection system design and systems commissioning for office structures.

In addition to building and fire code analyses, Global will address the fire sprinkler system water demand necessary based on NFPA and/or performance based requirements. Our analysis is based on criteria such as material composition of the protected product and storage arrangement, as well as water supply availability. Our involvement upfront can potentially eliminate the need for a fire pump through proper fire service water main planning, jurisdictional interface, and provision of bid criteria. Our consulting, design, and commissioning services are a strong lineup to ensure the most cost effective solution to warehouse protection issues.

For these occupancies, Global will target and mitigate potential property and life safety threats. We will analyze a facility’s entire exit capacity and develop the simplest and most effective approach to quickly get occupants to a safe dispersal area outside the building. For large warehouses, Global is often retained to provide fire and smoke modeling and the design of smoke control systems.

Because of their unique hazard and high occupant load, special construction features may be found in the design of large retail or mall facilities. These include non-combustible construction, additional exits, passive fire and smoke control systems, emergency voice communication systems, and a minimum common egress path of 20 feet in width. Global looks at these and other areas of concern to determine the most cost effective solutions to a planned project. Additionally, we look at zoning of systems for planned tenant spaces, water line service sizes and fire authority access.

Global assists property managers by quickly determining if a space or building is suitable for the intended occupancy for a given tenant or tenant type. By reviewing a given warehouse or retail space in advance, the manager can market the space properly as being specific occupancy ready, or by defining what upgrades may be required for a likely tenant. Global can determine costs for a given tenant and provide a managed plan to upgrade space as quickly as possible in order to meet move in requirements.