ENGINEERS CONSULTANTS DESIGNERS SURVEYORS Fire Protection & Process Safety FULL DISCIPLINE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING Bilstein Design Services Airbus Final Assembly line Bowling Green, KY Mobile, AL GSE provided full engineering services Foam Clean Agent for Bilstein, a leading producer of high Partnering with The Austin Company, Typically used for flammable and combustible liquids, foam fire Typically used for computer or sensitive industrial processing GSE designed Airbus’s first assembly quality cold rolled steel. The new steel suppression systems are comprised of three parts: foam concentrate, equipment that cannot tolerate water or powder extinguishing agents. mill, Bilstein’s first mill constructed water, and air. These systems cool, separate, suppress, and smother Inert gas fire suppression systems are a safe and natural way to line in the Western Hemisphere. Along outside of Germany, is equipped with the flame. GSE has many years of experience designing low extinguish a fire. GSE’s fire protection engineers have designed with fire protection design, GSE also many fire protection and life safety expansion, high expansion, and deluge foam systems. various clean agent systems, including but not limited to halon provided structural, electrical, process measures. Those measures include systems. and surveying. Fire Alarm design fire protection of steel processing included detection, notification, HVAC vessels using hydrogen and methane under pressure and heat, detection • Tank Farms • Electronic / Data Processing smoke barrier control integration, and technologies such as hazardous gas detection, LEL monitoring, and infrared • Loading Facilities • Computer / Control Rooms fire suppression supervision. Fire suppression included hose stations, wet detection, and suppression systems which include pre-action, deluge, wet • Warehouses • Pharmaceutical / Medical pipe, dry pipe, fire modeling for sprinkler operation in high bay structure, pipe, hose stations, and fire extinguishers. Scope included fire alarm design • Aircraft Hangars • Libraries and hazardous materials review and evaluation. This design was awarded detection, notification and interlocking. Life safety design scope consisted of • Petrochemical • Military Installations Siemens Engineering Innovation Award. GSE retained a separate contract Fire Department access, water supply for firefighting and code compliance • Oil and Gas • Switch Rooms for delegated fire protection engineering which included hangar high for outdoor tanks with hazardous materials. • Flammable Liquid Storage • Archive Storage expansion foam, fire sprinkler, and fixed foam water nozzles. Shaw Air Force Base Seismic Bracing Performance based solutions Airbus Military Sumter, NC Mobile, AL Bracing of fire protection systems is implemented to assure the Performance Based Design emphasizes science, engineering, GSE provided engineering system remains stable during a seismic event. Cable bracing is the calculations, and modeling rather than prescriptive requirements that Airbus Military has enlisted GSE on design and inspection services most economical method to install due to low material and installation usually do not consider a project’s unique characteristics. Evaluating two separate occasions to provide for all life safety and passive fire costs. Rigid bracing, consists of steel rods, pipes, or channels, is more several design scenarios allows the most cost effective design to be fire protection design. The preliminary expensive but preferred by some owners. GSE’s structural engineers chosen without compromising fire safety. This method can be used to project consisted of the addition of protection systems throughout the are experienced in designing bracing methods in accordance with the calculate safe separation distances between fuel packages and optimizing project. These services included NFPA and IBC codes including UL-listed, and FM-approved solutions. the placement of fire and smoke detectors to minimize detection times. a 26,000 square foot hangar and underground water supply, mass office space. Exterior scope included notification system fire sprinkler, water supply, underground utilities • Smoke Management standpipe systems and seismic • Nuclear Facilities to building, and fire hydrants. Interior protection. Project included Retrofitting fire protection in existing active • Fire Modeling scope included fire sprinkler, high expansion foam, and hose stations for the • Military Installations • Code Evaluations Air Force Command Areas providing Command Support for Air Force • Hospitals hangar. Fire alarm system design consisted of releasing panels, detection and efforts in the Middle East. Due to High Security issues, GSE provided • School • Egress notification. Additional project consisted of an 8,000 square foot expansion on-site daily oversight of changes necessitated by unknown variables. • Probabilistic Analysis to workshop and offices at component repair area. Scope included life safety • Deterministic Analysis design and modifications to sprinkler and alarm packages. GE Facility Process Safety Sprinkler Systems BAE Systems Decatur, AL Mobile, AL Process hazards analysis during design phase are critical to successful The most common of all the fire suppression systems are wet GSE provided fire protection design facility permitting, construction, and capital investment in the long term. pipe sprinkler systems. These systems have the least number of for mixing facility addition to existing Risk identification, analysis, reporting are supported by consequence GSE provided fire code compliance components, therefore making them a simplistic, affordable, and evaluation of all structures on this manufacturing plant along with fire evaluations and active prevention & mitigation measures utilizing proven reliable solution. Water is the best all-around medium for extinguishing protection updates of interior and technology. SIS system design and analysis per LOPA/ Risk Graph with site. Upon preliminary evaluation, most types of fire. GSE has the experience in design as well as scope for the project included exterior flammable and combustible Exida-certified CFSE expertise. CCPS, OSHA, API, and EPA guidelines performing hydraulic calculations for these types of systems. liquid storage tanks. Scope of govern both on- and off-shore installations, personnel, and property. updating all non-compliant fire protection and life safety measures. work included tank protection, air • PSM & RMP Program Support • HAZOP & HAZID Updates to fire suppression and aspirating detection, linear heat • Quantitative Risk Analysis • Incident Investigation water supply corrections, new code • ALARP Assessment • Failure Modes and Effects • Commercial Buildings detection, fire alarm notification, foam water deluge, fire sprinkler, applications, wet and dry sprinklers, fire main and hydrant layout, fire • Layer of Protection Analysis Analysis / SIS Desing & • Industrial Facilities foam water monitor, fire hydrants, fire separation, fire proof testing and alarm systems and egress corrections were all deemed necessary • Fire & Explosion Modeling Validation • Multi Family Residential inspection. updates to the facility in order to be code compliant • Flame and Gas Detection • Process Hazard Analysis • Restaurants Mapping • Offshore Safety Case Studies Marquis Apartments Mass Notification Insurance Consulting Duke Energy Nuclear Facilities New Orleans, LA Various Locations Mass notification systems are the most effective method to alert a Insurance consultations typically consist of pre-meeting with owners This new 250-unit mixed income large number of people to an emergency condition. These systems and insurance companies to develop fire protection and/or life safety GSE provided clean agent, multi-family housing development can be standalone or part of a fire alarm system. Systems can scope. GSE provides consulting services during insurance reviews sprinkler, fire alarm systems and includes three residential 5-story include large voice, SMS, email, computer, phone, and LED signage and/or negotiation process to determine the most applicable methods seismic support bracing for safety buildings, parking on the ground notification. Typical alerts include weather, fire, active shooter, for protecting a facility. upgrades at several nuclear facilities level, fitness room, swimming pool, process upset conditions, or various other life threatening events. clubhouse, playground, business operated by Duke Energy located office and a community/activities in Georgia, South Carolina, North center with kitchen. Along with fire • High Rise Buildings Carolina, Connecticut, Virginia, and protection design, scope of work for this project included structural, • Heavy Industrial Facilities • Schools Alabama. Built in response to new mechanical, and electrical design. Scope of the fire protection design • Hazardous Locations • Industrial Facilities regulations by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the aftermath included active system, sprinkler, fire alarm, passive system, and life • Alternative Designs • Military Installations of the Fukashima incident, the fire protection systems were installed in safety. The project was named by New Orleans Magazine as one of • Sporting Venues concrete domes designed to safely house vital equipment and remain 2010’s “Best Architecture” recipients. protected against extreme weather, seismic, and blast conditions. www.GSEeng.com www.GSEeng.com Bowling green, KY SERVICES CIVIL ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL STRUCTURAL