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Innovative Safety and Accessibility Solutions for Hospitality + Entertainment Venues

The hospitality sector is experiencing a dynamic shift as it increasingly merges with the entertainment industry, leading to the creation of multi-purpose venues that serve diverse functions. This blending of industries introduces a range of complex safety and accessibility challenges that require innovative approaches to address effectively. While prescriptive building codes are necessary to ensure safety, they can sometimes restrict design creativity, limiting the potential of what these spaces can offer. As a result, it's crucial to develop solutions that strike a balance between imaginative, cutting-edge design and strict regulatory compliance.

Whether you're embarking on the construction of a new hotel, transforming existing spaces into multi-functional venues, or planning large-scale events that involve both hospitality and entertainment, our team is committed to partnering with you every step of the way.

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Meet the Experts

Combining Vision with Compliance

In recent decades, the hospitality industry has adapted building safety and security to address unprecedented hazards and threats. Our unparalleled expertise in performance-based and alternative design solutions keeps your guests and staff safe, while also meeting your aesthetic, functional, and budgetary requirements. Furthermore, we help you implement effective ongoing operating and maintenance processes, and provide rapid assessments to address any business disruptions.

Helping You Provide the Utmost Safety to Your Guests + Staff

By partnering with leading hotel brands, owners, developers, and architects, we identify risks, review code requirements, and deliver compliant, safety-focused solutions for hospitality venues. Leveraging our deep industry expertise and understanding of hospitality trends and operations, we help you provide a world-class guest experience while ensuring full compliance with all relevant codes and standards. Prioritizing critical guest and staff safety, we safeguard your business and brand reputation.

Hospitality + Entertainment Industry Services

Learn more about our service offerings for hospitality and events facilities.

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Accessibility + Universal Design Consulting

Accessibility is impacted by overlapping laws, codes, standards, and initiatives which can make it more challenging than other aspects of…
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AHJ Representation + Plan Review

Whether a project is a renovation, addition, tenant fit out, or new construction, all facility designs are subject to compliance approval…
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Business Continuity

An unplanned event — such as severe weather, power outage or virus outbreak — can severely disrupt organizations and prevent normal…
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Catastrophic Response

What is a catastrophic event plan? After a major catastrophic event, you need a catastrophe response plan to get your disaster recovery…
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Cladding + Façade Evaluation

The use of combustible exterior cladding and façade materials has become a serious threat to fire and life safety. Because of limited fire…
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Code Consulting + Performance Based Design

Our building and fire code experts collaborate with architects, developers, owners, construction firms, design-build teams and…
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Due Diligence, Corporate Intelligence + Background Investigations

Our investigators provide corporate intelligence and insight in support of mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, executive hires, board…
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Emergency Preparedness

We work closely with clients in industry and government to establish an all-hazards approach to comprehensive, well-defined emergency…
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Fire + Life Safety Building Commissioning

A building's fire and life safety system is only as good as it's installed. From design, inspection, testing, and maintenance, we work with…
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Fire + Life Safety Systems Design

Fire and life safety are pivotal considerations in today’s building designs. The integration of fire alarm systems, fire protection, life…
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Hazardous Materials Safety

The classification, processing, and safe handling of hazardous materials is critical to life safety, business continuity and loss…
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Emergency Mass Notification Systems + Design

In an emergency, it’s often difficult to predict and manage people and their actions. Having a well-designed Mass Notification and…
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Mass Timber Consulting

Our experts were involved with the development and early application of mass timber criteria years before the International Code Council…
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Pedestrian + Evacuation Modeling

Knowing the performance of your facility during day-to-day operations is critical to understand. Whether it is a concert hall, airport…
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Security Design + Consulting

We provide expert counsel to owners, developers, architects and engineers on all security-related issues and requirements related to site…
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Security Program Development

Building a cost-effective, high-performance security and risk management program that garners the trust of key executives requires an…
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Security Risk Management

Before you invest in new or improved security capabilities, you need to understand your risks. Whether you’re in charge of enterprise-wide…
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Security Risk Management Training

We design and deliver training for many domains within security risk management. These programs range widely in terms of objectives,…
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Testing, Research + Development

To solve our clients’ most pressing and critical safety challenges, we use our network of in-house safety testing lab facilities, led by…
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WorkplaceThreat + Violence Risk Management

Workplace violence is a risk for any employer, but is one we can help manage. We specialize in behavioral case management services and…
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We partner with you to solve complex challenges throughout the project lifecycle

While many of our services and solutions are utilized across various markets and applications, dozens of others are highly specialized and unique to one industry or another. From aviation, power and healthcare to nuclear energy, insurance and manufacturing, our team of engineers and consultants includes the most experienced industry experts from around the world.

  • Built Environment + Resiliency
  • Code Consulting + Fire Engineering
  • Emerging Hazards
  • Energy + Utilities
  • Emergency Management + Response
  • Forensics
  • Security Risk + Public Safety
Our Office Locations

With offices around the world and team members on the ground in key regions, our global reach and vital in-country expertise enable us to deliver solutions that meet the specific needs of our clients and the communities we serve.

Our Offices
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