Fire Safety

TMCO creates performance-based fire safety strategies that ensure code compliance, reduce risk, and support flexible design outcomes.

Performance-based fire safety that keeps design open.

A performance-based fire strategy meets the code while giving the architect freedom that a prescriptive approach often removes. We develop strategies that keep people safe, manage risk and support the design intent.

What we offer

Our fire engineers work across all sectors and complexities. Our services include:

  • Performance-based fire engineering strategies
  • NCC compliance and alternative solutions
  • Fire and smoke modelling
  • Egress and evacuation analysis
  • Fire safety input to design and construction
  • Fire safety assessments of existing buildings

For existing buildings

We assess fire safety in existing buildings and find practical ways to bring them up to standard, whether you are refurbishing, changing use or resolving a compliance issue. This might include:

  • Fire safety and compliance assessments
  • Alternative solutions for existing buildings
  • Upgrade strategies staged to suit budget and occupancy
  • Change-of-use fire engineering

For new projects

Involved early, we set a fire strategy that protects people and property while giving the architect room to deliver the building they want. Early input avoids costly redesign late in the project.

Options that are costed and clear

We set out the fire safety options with their pros and cons, cost implications and buildability, so you can make an informed decision with no nasty surprises.

Coordinated with the whole design

Fire safety touches structure, services and architecture. We coordinate the strategy across every discipline so it works as built, not just on paper.

Fire engineering on some of the most demanding buildings around.

Our chartered fire engineers have delivered strategies for hospitals, arenas, universities, hotels, prisons and other complex, high-risk buildings.

We keep people and property safe while protecting the architecture and the budget.

When will you benefit by involving us?

At the outset of a new project

Fire strategy set at concept stage shapes layout, materials and cost for the whole project. Bringing us in early avoids expensive redesign later.

  • When you need an independent, code-based fire strategy
  • When an existing building needs a fire safety assessment or upgrade
  • When you are changing the use of a building
  • When architectural ambition needs a fire strategy to match