Its most important in any fire safety strategy to protect the structure with adequate fire resistance methods in case of fire incident. This applies to all forms of construction (steel, concrete, FRP etc.) and requires detailed understanding of fire engineering and fire behavior.

As with a fire strategy, structural fire engineering can range from simple guidance to complex analysis to determine the amount of fire protection or concrete cover required on an element by element basis to achieve the required structural reliability for fire.

Our objective is always to ensure the required reliability can be achieved in the most cost effective manner. This is done by working closely with structural engineers to optimise frame design for fire limit state and then ensuring that fire protection is applied where it is most required and eliminated where it is not necessary. In most instances, correctly applied structural fire engineering delivers significant cost savings and reductions in material thicknesses.