Brandkonsulten AB, byggnadstekniskt brandskydd

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Brandkonsulten AB was founded 1990 by Kjell Fallqvist. Today Brandkonsulten AB is one of the leading fire safety consultants in Sweden 30 employees, primarily Fire Safety Engineers (BSc) and Risk Management Engineers (MSc). Brandkonsulten AB also works with PhD Bengt Hägglund. Our combined experience in the field of fire safety design and engineering and risk management is over 250 years. The head office is located in the city centre of Stockholm and we have regional offices are in the cities of Linköping and Östersund.

Brandkonsulten AB has a wide experience from projects both in Sweden and abroad.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for inquiries or a tender for your specific project!

Kjell Fallqvist
CEO
Fire Safety Engineer
Tel: +46 (0)8 505 344 00

Our services

We take part in the design of any kind of building or construction. As one of the leading Fire and Risk consultant firms in Sweden we offer various services:

Design of fire safety strategies for various types of buildings.
Simulations for egress strategy planning and smoke modelling.
Risk Analyses.
Risk Management.
Fire safety management.
Documentation of fire safety provisions.
Flammables and explosives.
Research and development, codes, handbooks and education.

We have a wide experience in advanced computer modelling of fire and smoke spread in buildings as well as egress modelling. We perform simulations of fire- and smoke spread using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models as FDS and CFX and egress simulations using STEPS. We also use computer based analysis and calculations for prevention of smoke spread in HVAC-systems and analysis of heat radiation between buildings. As regards to risk management and risk analyses, our Risk Management Engineers are experienced in using several differnet qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative risk analyses methods.

We have specialist in the fields of:

sprinkler systems,
fire and evacuation alarm,
fire protection in HVAC systems,
structural fire protection,
fire protection of high-rise buildings,
fire protection of hospitals,
fire safety in tunnels and underground facilities,
flammables and explosives,
risk analyses and
calculation methods for fire design.

In the specialist groups the development of methods and our knowledge bank is consistently increased. We also emphasis that our competence in each field of expertise is upheld by a minimum of two employees.

Our fire safety engineers have experience from working in Fire services, the County Administrative Board in Stockholm, The Swedish Rescue Service Agency, The Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning and international fire and risk consultand in Denmark, Great Britain and the United Arab Emirates. The experiences and contacts gained from the work in authority functions in the Fire safety and Risk Management sphere vouches for a positive cooperation and dialogue with the authorities. A number of our engineers have experience from work on an international level. Most of our engineers have worked together with international clients, architects and contractors.

We also have an extensive net of contacts regarding issues outside our own expertise. This include design and construction of fire and evacuation alarm systems, water sprinkler systems and gas extinguishing systems. This network together with the collected knowledge of our engineers gives us a highly effective way of achieving good and cost effective fire safety design, both in terms of initial and life cycle costs.

References

Brandkonsulten AB each month handles a great number of projects. During the years we therefore have worked with several thousand projects within a vast range of areas. The references below are just a brief description of some of our projects. Please contact us for further references!

NKS - Nya Karolinska Solna
NKS is a new university hospital in Stockholm which will be finished in 2015 which will have a total floor area of 320 000 m².

H&M headquarter
Brandkonsulten AB perfomed the fire safety design in the H&M headqurter in central Stockholm.

Stadium Arena
Stadium Arena in Norrköping is a 3000-seating multifunction arena, which is as the national arena for the Swedish basketball team.

Kista Galleria
Kista Galleria in Stockholm is one of the largest shopping centres in Sweden with over 50 000 m² floor area.

Quality and Environmental Management System

We work with a process-based Quality and Environmental Management System in line with SS-EN ISO 9001 and SS-EN ISO 14001.

Economy

Our economy is solid and our credit rating is highest possible according to UC AB. We are also certified as triple A (AAA) by Soliditet (D&B).

Vision and Ethics

We strive for a high ethics, which to us means that applicable sections of law and principals for fire design and the desires of our clients is our highest priority.

Our vision is to preserve and develop our position as a leading Fire and Risk consultancy firm in Sweden, recognized by clients, authorities and universities, and to known to be as the Good company.