CHICAGOLAND'S fire protection & life safety specialists

Fire Code Consulting for Chicago

PBFPE's licensed fire protection engineers offer a wide range of fire protection and code consulting services. If you need help with design, modeling, AMMRs, AHJ relations or anything else to do with fire and life safety, we should be your next call.

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FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES FOR Chicago

Creative Code Compliance & Life Safety Solutions

Performance Based Fire Protection Engineering offers a full suite of fire protection, code consulting and life safety design services for the Chicagoland area. We combine years of experience with industry-leading expertise and technology to deliver innovative, compliant solutions that marry architectural vision with real-world performance. We're here to help you maintain safety, minimize risk, and save time and money.

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Nationwide Team. Local Expertise.

Our FPEs provide creative, customized solutions to your fire protection and code compliance challenges. We're well-versed in every commonly applicable statute, including interpretations of the Fire Prevention Code, the Illinois Life Safety Code, the Chicago Building Code, the International Fire Code (IFC), and NFPA codes and standards. Critically, our firefighting experience and depth of FPE knowledge allows us to interface positively with local AHJs, improving outcomes for designers, builders, owners and building occupants.

We're Chicago's Code Consulting Resource.

When architects, developers, contractors and engineers need help delivering safe, useful and beautiful built environments, PBFPE is the code consultant of choice. We deliver confidence and compliance across the Chicagoland area.

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Fire Code & Safety Services

  • Performance-based design
  • Code compliance & AHJ interface
  • Fire & life safety system design
  • Alternative means & methods
  • Fire & egress modeling
  • Smoke control
  • Hazard analysis
  • Fire & life safety narratives

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