Get life-safety focused solutions to keep unique heritage, retrofit, and complex building features as part of your project. At Edge Fire, we combine a people-first collaborative approach with decades of engineering experience in Canada.
Find alternative solutions for fire and life safety features
When the real world does not fit nicely within the boundaries of prescriptive building codes, Edge Fire develops performance-based alternative solutions. We collaborate with your design team, consider project constraints, uphold designer vision, and meet the performance and documentation requirements established by local prescriptive regulations.
Keep moving with engineering judgment
Local authorities will sometimes consider a middle path between alternative solutions and prescriptive building code requirements. Edge Fire can identify opportunities for engineering judgments, negotiate with local authorities, and provide a clear technical opinion for situations that arise frequently in existing building projects such as:
- Unique project conditions
- A construction constraint
- Deviation from a tested assembly
Engineering judgments do not require the full development of an alternative solution
