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Design and Fire Protection Modeling
VERTEX’s team of engineers provides clients with building safety assessment services for acquisition, management, and disposition planning.
CONSEQUENCE MODELING
A critical element of risk-based fire protection is understanding the consequences of fire and explosion scenarios in terms of life safety, environmental effects, and property protection. VERTEX provides consequence modeling services for clients requiring analysis of fire, explosion, and loss of containment scenarios. Modeling often includes blast analysis, radiant heat modeling, products of combustion analysis, gas dispersion modeling, etc. These types of modeling services are used to verify regulatory compliance, design performance-based design systems, and to provide forensic analysis after system failures. We have developed modeling scenarios and explosion simulations for these purposes at a variety of facilities including oil and gas processing plants, heavy industrial facilities, military installations, and a wide variety of other facilities with processes that pose potential explosion or incident risk.
VERTEX’s engineering and design staff are experienced with the latest validated modeling methods to analyze incidents including liquids and gaseous releases, fire incidents (pool fire, jet fire, etc.), blast and explosion overpressure, vapor dispersion, and other types of modeling as required for each hazard. Software used is dependent on the incident and desired information output; however, the following are commonly used tools:
Our Computer Modeling services include the following:
- PyroSim (Front End Software for Fire Dynamics and Smoke Control Simulator)
- FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator)
- PHAST – DNV GL (Process Hazard Analysis Software)
- LNGFIRE3
- 1st Order Hazard Calculation Tools
Services
- Forensics
- Surety Claims Consulting
- Construction Claims Consulting
- Environmental Claims Consulting
- Forensic Engineering
- Forensic Cost Engineering
- Forensic Architecture
- Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigations
- Forensic Fire & Life Safety Claim
- Insurance Appraisal Consulting
- Builder’s Risk and Delay in Start Up (DSU) Insurance Consulting
- Subcontractor Default Insurance Claims Consulting
- Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution
- Standard of Care
Contractor - Standard of Care
Contractor Termination - Standard of Care
Owner - Standard of Care
Architectural & Building Envelope - Delay and Damages
- Productivity Loss
- Termination
- Commercial Damages
- Standard of Care
Structural - Standard of Care
Site Civil - Government Contracts
- Standard of Care
Heavy Civil - Standard of Care
Geotechnical - Standard of Care
MEP - Fire Protection
- Standard of Care Construction Safety
- Delay
CPM Scheduling Expert - Standard of Care Fire Protection and Life Safety
- Delay
Productivity - Delay
Acceleration - Damages Cost of Repair and FAULT ALLOCATION
- Business Interruption & Lost Profits
- Damages
Differing Site Condition - Damages
Added Scope - Environmental Cost Expert
- Environmental Scope Expert Witness Services
- Environmental Schedule Expert Witness Services
- Environmental Compliance Expert Witness Services
- Standard of Care
- Engineering
- Environmental
- Project Advisory