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Enhancing the Safety and Efficiency of our Transportation Systems

Our transportation networks are the lifeblood of our world, connecting us all and continually evolving to meet the growing needs of industry, travel, and connectivity. Mitigating safety, security, and risk challenges is critical to prevent fatalities, costly property losses, and prolonged business disruptions. Drawing on our in-depth knowledge of tunnel fire protection systems and life safety challenges in rail stations, ground transportation, and integrated tunnels, we provide comprehensive transportation solutions to improve your business. Our team delivers performance-based designs for a range of rail, road, maritime, and port transit systems, ensuring you meet tomorrow's demands today.

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Specialised Fire Safety for Railways, Tunnels + Infrastructure

With years of experience in delivering fire and life safety strategies for railway stations, tunnels, and related infrastructure, we offer performance-based fire safety engineering. Our holistic strategies address emergency evacuation, smoke control, fire compartmentation, and fire rating of load-bearing elements, all based on fundamental fire safety engineering principles. This ensures that your transportation infrastructure is safe, resilient, and designed to protect both people and property.

Meeting Increasing Demand for Safer Transportation

Ensuring human safety during catastrophic roadway or tunnel emergencies requires specialized expertise. We pride ourselves on our extensive fire protection and safety knowledge, as well as our understanding of the unique challenges posed by ground transportation systems and tunnels. Our performance-based approach combines industry best practices with practical economic considerations, allowing us to develop tailored solutions that meet both current and future project needs. Should any code compliance issues arise, our engineers will work closely with you and code authorities to find the right balance between strict requirements and practical, performance-based alternatives.

Services for Transit + Tunnels

Learn more about our service offerings for transit and tunnels, roads and rails.

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Accessibility + Universal Design Consulting

Accessibility is impacted by overlapping laws, codes, standards, and initiatives which can make it more challenging than other aspects of…
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Accident Reconstruction

When investigating a vehicle collision or other complex accident, many factors come into play. Examining the vehicles, road conditions,…
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Catastrophic Response

What is a catastrophic event plan? After a major catastrophic event, you need a catastrophe response plan to get your disaster recovery…
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Code Consulting + Fire Engineering

From fire system design and testing to code consulting and building commissioning to structural, mechanical and…
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Code Consulting + Performance Based Design

Our building and fire code experts collaborate with architects, developers, owners, construction firms, design-build teams and…
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Emergency Preparedness

We work closely with clients in industry and government to establish an all-hazards approach to comprehensive, well-defined emergency…
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Emerging Hazards

Our team of experts provides comprehensive services to address emerging hazards, such as combustible dust, battery…
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Fire + Life Safety Systems Design

Fire and life safety are pivotal considerations in today’s building designs. The integration of fire alarm systems, fire protection, life…
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Hazardous Materials Safety

The classification, processing, and safe handling of hazardous materials is critical to life safety, business continuity and loss…
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Emergency Mass Notification Systems + Design

In an emergency, it’s often difficult to predict and manage people and their actions. Having a well-designed Mass Notification and…
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Pedestrian + Evacuation Modeling

Knowing the performance of your facility during day-to-day operations is critical to understand. Whether it is a concert hall, airport…
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Pre-Construction + Construction Administration Support

Our multi-discipline engineering team works with you in the design phase to identify potential compliance issues, develops solutions that…
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Security Assessments

Understanding the gaps in your organization’s physical and technical security is a critical first step in prevention-focused security risk…
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Security Program Development

Building a cost-effective, high-performance security and risk management program that garners the trust of key executives requires an…
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Security Risk Management

Before you invest in new or improved security capabilities, you need to understand your risks. Whether you’re in charge of enterprise-wide…
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Security Risk Management Training

We design and deliver training for many domains within security risk management. These programs range widely in terms of objectives,…
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Threat Assessment + Management

When a threat of violence first surfaces — to you or your family, to your employees or clients or to others — three security threat…
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Smoke Control Systems, Fire Modeling + Tunnel Design

Codes and Standards require fire safety features based on a one-size fits all approach. While traditional compliance may be acceptable for…
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Testing, Research + Development

To solve our clients’ most pressing and critical safety challenges, we use our network of in-house safety testing lab facilities, led by…
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We partner with you to solve complex challenges throughout the project lifecycle

While many of our services and solutions are utilized across various markets and applications, dozens of others are highly specialized and unique to one industry or another. From aviation, power and healthcare to nuclear energy, insurance and manufacturing, our team of engineers and consultants includes the most experienced industry experts from around the world.

  • Built Environment + Resiliency
  • Code Consulting + Fire Engineering
  • Emerging Hazards
  • Energy + Utilities
  • Emerging Hazards
  • Security Risk + Public Safety
  • Forensics
Our Office Locations

With offices around the world and team members on the ground in key regions, our global reach and vital in-country expertise enable us to deliver solutions that meet the specific needs of our clients and the communities we serve.

Our Offices
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