Fire Engineering

Safeguarding communities, businesses and the environment is at the core of Fire and Life Safety (FLS) engineering. We provide pragmatic and cost-effective design solutions to some of the world’s leading architects, developers and fire engineers. FLS is the expert understanding of how fire can affect people and our built environment. It forms a distinct design discipline. At WSP, we use our specialist knowledge to develop innovative and project specific solutions to facilitate our client’s design aspirations.

Fire Engineering and Life Safety

WSP is an internationally recognised path maker in providing FLS solutions, employing the very best people, from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds, to ensure that each project delivers its promise of leadership, innovation and engineering excellence. Our approach to communicate and involve key stake holders in the design process results in a facility that works best for the required needs. We help our clients create strategies to manage their fire safety and protection risks and meet regulatory compliance.

Our Fire Engineering Services Include

Holistic Fire Strategies

We work with our clients at all stages of a project’s life cycle, from concept to operational, across a diverse range of sectors to develop fire strategies. This includes negotiating with Statutory Authorities to get the best outcome for the project.

Fire Computer Modelling

Our FLS engineers have extensive experience in using advanced computer modelling of fire, smoke, human movement, and structural element analysis. Our understanding of this modelling enables us to advise our clients in designing spaces that do not fit the standard code acceptable solutions designs.

Passive Fire Design

Our team provides assistance in the determination of passive fire details through coordinating with architects, structural and services engineers as part of the fire design.

Fire Protection Design and Engineering

We provide robust solutions for design of fire safety systems required by the project. From a performance-based specification to detailed design of systems, our fire protection engineers will tailor a package to delight our clients. Our engineers are also capable of carrying out system surveys, due diligence reviews, and support during construction as commissioning engineers. Our global links mean that we have international capability to use international standards on any project.

Fire Risk Assessments

We undertake Fire Risk Assessments for existing buildings and tenancies to assist Facilities Managers in taking a pro-active approach to minimising the risk of fire.

WSP Fire Engineering Project Experience

We provide fire engineering services to some of the NZ’s leading architects, developers, engineers and planners, across an enormous diversity of projects. These range from the award-winning projects like Convention centre in Christchurch (Te Pae) and Auckland’s first hybrid timber construction, Auckland City Mission – Homeground to specialist hospital facilities, Highrise residential and Hotels, Schools and community facilities that reflect the community they represent.
Our work also encompasses numerous commercial, residential, education, hospitality, retail, science, sports and stadia, airports, stations and other transport interchanges. WSP has a global base of over 150 fire engineers and due to our unique way of interfacing globally, we are able to provide technical resources from our global pool.