Our commitment to the fire service does not stop with our projects.  We make great efforts to understand what firefighters do inside burn buildings and on call.  Our engineers have experienced live fire training to gain a better sense of this.

We have invested thousands of hours researching the effects of fire on building materials, learning about available products for burn buildings and other fire training props, and learning what training officers want and need from training props.

Roger LeBoeuf serves on the Fire Service Training Committee for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).  This committee writes NFPA 1402 and 1403, the guides and standards that pertain to fire training centers and live fire training evolutions.

We help fire departments understand the engineering aspects of fire training structures.  We have:

·         Written 13 published articles on burn building engineering for various fire service publications, including The Voice, the official publication of the International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI)

·         Presented numerous burn building educational seminars for fire instructors and administrators, including ones at:

v       IAFC Fire-Rescue International

v       Pennsylvania State Fire Training Academy

Training props provide a unique and difficult design challenge. For example, consider burn buildings. In their daily practice, architects and engineers do not typically design for exposure to literally thousands of fires and repetitive temperatures of 1,500 degrees. Design expertise honed while designing fire stations, schools, office buildings, and other conventional buildings is of little use for burn building design. To compound the design problem, there are no comprehensive public safety training design resources for the A/E community.

EL&A has a strong, proven design philosophy and successful design approach for burn buildings and other training props. No matter which training prop is being designed, the first step is to work with the Client to determine the training objectives. Once we know what skills need to be taught with each training prop, we provide the available options, remaining focused on safety, versatility/realism, durability, and ease of maintenance. Because of our experience, and by staying current on the latest technology, we efficiently guide our clients to proven, cost-effective training solutions.

Please call us for additional information about our firm.

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