Transportation
EFP has provided award winning service to help airports, rail and road vehicles and facilities, marine facilities and ships to ensure fire and life safety.
Aviation
EFP consultants and engineers are recognized authorities in fire and life safety engineering for the aviation industry They apply in-depth expertise in a wide range of disciplines to address the fire and life safety challenges that are unique to airports and aircraft—from preserving the integrity of unique architectural designs, to ensuring life safety and fire protection within the stringent constraints of airport security to designing highly effective emergency communications systems (ECS) to providing comprehensive services for effective air side operations safety.
EFP has extensive experience in designing systems that protect airport patrons, employees, and property from fire, smoke, and other emergency scenarios. Our state-of-the-art ECS systems support the latest notification processes to ensure effective, controlled response to emergency situations.
Airport operators face a wide range of unique technical challenges to emergency response and evacuation planning-including stringent security requirements. EFP's people movement modeling, takes into account a wide range of factors and behaviors, including code and security limitations to patron reluctance to participate. These comprehensive models enable EFP and architects to design systems and processes that deliver optimal life and property protection in the event of fire, smoke hazard, and other emergency scenarios.
EFP also has extensive experience in helping airports provide air side operations safety from aircraft evacuation plans to jet fuel fire suppression plans to aeronautical foam firefighting training. All EFP services and consulting are fully integrated to address the unique challenges of the airport environment. They work with airport and airline personnel to implement systems and procedures designed to mitigate risk and deliver maximum life safety protection.
Our team’s experience includes analysis and review of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards including coordination with state and local municipality regulations. EFP understands the FAA’s need for consultants who are not only technically qualified but who have the FAA experience and knowledge to start work immediately with no learning curve. We have demonstrated success in being responsive to the FAA’s needs and asserted that our superior service will continue. We apply our understanding of FAA regulations to Airport Traffic Control Towers (ATCT) and Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities.
Services for the Aviation Industry
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Facility Evacuation Plans
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Emergency Response Plans
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Emergency Communication Systems
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Fire Supression/Sprinkler Systems Design
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Code Compliance Reviews
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People Movement and Simulation Modeling
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Air Side Operations Safety
Railroad
EFP offers experience and expertise in fire protection and life safety engineering for railway and mass transit systems. Our consultants are experts in solving fire protection, life safety and code compliance challenges of elevated and below-grade rail transit platforms, smoke protection and heat release rates for tunnel ventilation analysis’s, large-scale rail car and locomotive repair facilities, diesel and other flammable and combustible liquid storage of operations.
Fire suppression, alarm, and detection systems; and fire-resistive construction features are all fundamental features in protecting physical property and assets from the effects of fire. Today’s fire protection applications extend beyond traditional sprinklers and alarm bells, becoming critical elements in occupant life safety, business continuity, and any fire risk management strategy.
Development of design fires and CFD analysis of smoke moment are performed in support of smoke management system design. The smoke moment analysis is used in the evaluation of safe egress from the tunnel or facility.
EFP has developed fire growth rate and burning rate computer models for rail and road vehicles. The models are used to develop design fires for tunnel fire protection design. Analysis of fuel spills from vehicles and tankers, based upon EFP extensive work in spill and pool fires also provides input the design of fire protection features.
We have also modeled fires and the heat flux to the tunnel or bridge structure due to vehicle fires or tanker spill fires. Thermal and structural effects on the concrete and steel materials were determined analytically, and checked against available fire test results for similar construction with spray-on, board, or no protection. Based on these studies, recommendations were made on the suitability of proposed fire protection systems to prevent collapse,on the expected levels of fire-induced damage to the tunnel or overpass construction and on modifications for improvement. In one case, an engineering evaluation was also made on the risk of progressive collapse of the building supported by the overpass for two candidate protection systems.
EFP’s distinct client value is driven by our holistic approach to fire safety; analyzing active and passive features of fire protection; as well as unique characteristics of the facility, staff, and operations. By quantifying fire hazards and associated risks, coupled with our expertise in fire protection technologies and engineering principles, EFP develops cost-effective fire protection strategies customized to meet our clients’ specific risk management objectives.
Services for the Railroad Industry
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Fire protection system design
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Fire protection water supply analysis
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Fire detection and alarm system design
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Occupant mass notification system design
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Structural fire-resistance evaluations
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Fire protection system commissioning
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Performance-based design alternatives
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Process hazard analysis
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Railcar, road vehicle, and tanker fire growth and heat release rate modeling
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Tunnel smoke movement modeling
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Protection of tunnels and transportation facilities using water mist and foam sprinklers
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Detection of fires in tunnels
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Egress analysis and design
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Spill prevention and control
Marine
EFP provides R&D in all areas of marine fire protection including mist, gaseous, AFFF and aerosol fire suppression, fire detection (spot and video-based), smoke management, material flammability (e.g. cables, interior finish, furnishings), fire resistance (steel, aluminum, composites), firefighting and damage control doctrine, training, firefighting equipment and protective equipment, fire model development and use, and CBR protection.
EFP's pioneering research into water mist and gaseous fire protection technologies lead directly to current IMO test methods and SOLAS regulations. Our deep understanding of marine fire protection technologies, fire protection requirements, and the unique challenges of marine fire protection enables us to provide you with the best, compliant solutions for your needs. For novel ship designs where prescriptive SOLAS regulations are a challenge, we stand ready to provide performance based design solution.
Services for the Marine Industry
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Design of water mist, gaseous agent, AFFF, aerosol, sprinkler fire protection systems
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Smoke management design
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Egress analysis and design
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Performance based design
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Fire hazard and risk analysis
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Fire Modeling
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Forensics
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Evaluation of material flammability performance
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Fire detection and alarm
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Firefighting doctrine
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Training