Koffel Associates' engineers provide a wide range of fire, building and life safety code consulting services. We may get involved at any stage of new design projects or be asked to review code compliance issues in existing buildings. We are often asked to develop equivalencies where the letter of the code cannot be met.

What does that mean for you? Everything! And because our engineers actively participate in the development process of codes, standards and design guidelines for the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), International Code Council (ICC), International Fire Code (IFC), International Building Code (IBC), International Code Council Evaluation Service (ICCES), International Existing Building Code (IEBC), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) and Underwriters Laboratory (UL), you—and your projects—benefit even more.

Regardless of the size of your project, we can expertly incorporate and apply the rationale, current philosophies, new technologies and updated requirements of codes and standards.

Our code consulting services include:

• Code and design criteria analysis
• Means of egress analysis
• Fire protection and life safety plans development, including documentation for code compliance (for permit purposes)
• Fire-resistance analysis
• Fire Marshals and Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) negotiations
• Equivalency and variance requests
• Accessible means of egress analysis
• Non-structural fire protection and life safety review of existing and new structures
• Third-party fire protection and life safety peer review
• Third-party permit approval (AHJ on delegated basis)