Fire/Life Safety Building Code Consulting
WE PROVIDE
Efficient Solutions
Our Fire/life SAFETY building code consulting services help clients navigate complex regulatory requirements and ensure compliance with applicable building and fire codes. We identify potential compliance challenges early in the design process and provide innovative solutions to meet our client's design objectives while minimizing costs and delays.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE:
Drawing code compliance reviews and solutions
YCi provides drawings/code compliance reviews of project plans to verify conformance with applicable building and fire codes. our findings and RECOMMENDATIONS to achieve code compliance are documented in a review letter with annotated pdf plans.
Alternate means and method requests for modification
Development, preparation, and assistance with processing Alternate Means and Methods to code compliance (code equivalencies; Requests for Modification) to code compliance challenges.
Fire life safety egress drawings
Fire / Life Safety Egress Analysis Plans to include in the permit application set of documents.
Building code analysis reports
Tailored to the code requirements specific to the project needs. This report is used by the design team to develop a code compliant permit application set that will help reduce the number of plan review corrections and reduce the plan review processing time.
Existing building code analysis reports
Due diligence site observation visits of existing buildings to verify the level of code compliance and identify the extent of fire life safety code required upgrades to facilitate building alterations, additions, or change of use.
Plan review corrections resolution
Save time and money interpreting ambiguous and sometimes extraneous fire/life safety plan review corrections by having YCI assist with preparing responses to Fire Life Safety Plan Review Corrections.
YCI prepares code intent-based solutions to resolve plan review corrections using a collaborative approach with the Design Team and the Approving Agency Plan Reviewer(s). When appropriate, YCI prepares Alternate Means and Methods (or Requests for Modification) to address 4 code compliance challenges and concerns raised during the plan review process.