Pheasants International provides fire and life safety consulting services in Pakistan for commercial, healthcare, industrial, residential, hotel, institutional and high-rise projects.
Life safety engineering determines the capacity of a building, the means of egress, the time necessary and what will prevent fire and smoke from stopping their egress. Those responses are calculations, not opinions and must be supportable when the reviewing authority with jurisdiction looks at the submission.
Review-approved submissions with calculations shown in full, not asserted
Occupancy classification, applicable code edition and authority requirements Determine occupant load, exit capacity, travel distance, common path of travel.
Evacuation strategy, compartmentation and smoke control strategy
Smoke management, compartmentation and staircase pressurization
Resolve clashes with Architectural, HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing and Structural.
Fire strategy report and calculations in authority submission format
Review of construction, testing and commissioning of installed systems
A fire strategy report is a master document that details how a building achieves fire and life safety, including occupancy classification, evacuation strategy, occupant load and egress calculations, compartmentation, and smoke control. It serves as the standard against which all other disciplines design, as well as the document that an authority reviews.
Pheasants International provides fire and life safety engineering consultancy across Pakistan for high-rise, healthcare, industrial and commercial projects, covering fire strategy reports, means of egress analysis and smoke control design.
Means of egress analysis makes sure that people can get to a safe place within the code’s limits. It figures out how many people are in a room, confirms the number and width of exits, checks the travel distance and common path of travel, and finds dead-end corridors. It also checks exit access, the exit itself, and the exit discharge.
To find the occupant load, divide the floor area by the applicable code’s occupant load factor for that function. There are no people listed, but this is a design figure that needs to be right for every subsequent egress requirement.
Yes. Many patients can’t leave the building on their own, so healthcare facilities use “defend-in-place” and horizontal evacuation into nearby smoke compartments instead. This determines the size of the smoke compartments, the widths of the hallways, and the needs for fire-rated barriers.
At the design concept. Calculations of occupant load and egress determine the number of stairs, the width of the stairs, and the layout of the core. Getting involved after the architecture is set usually means either a redesign or a compliance compromise.
