Fernandez & Associates Areas of Expertise

Full scope of fire protection engineering, understanding of fire growth and building systems.

Fire growth and explosion hazards and the means for prevention and control.

Fire resistance and the interaction with architectural and structural systems.

Design and analysis of fire detection and alarm systems, including conventional, addressable and networked systems.

Design and analysis of water based suppression systems including wet-pipe, dry-pipe and pre-action sprinklers, deluge and foam systems, water supplies, fire pumps and flow tests.

Design and analysis of smoke control systems.

Data Centers and High Tech Facilities design and analysis of fire detection and suppression systems coupled with Emergency Power Off systems.

Design gaseous fire suppression system for Cellular Telephone Cell sites.

Design addressable Very Early Warning Fire Detection and Annunciation systems for Telecommunications Central Offices.

Perform Intelligibility Testing on Mass Notification Systems for compliance with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)-72 "National Fire Alarm Code" and the Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 4-021-01 "Mass Notification Systems".