Aviation
HAI consultants and engineers are recognized authorities in fire and life safety engineering for the aviation industry They apply in-depth expertise in a wide range of disciplines to address the fire and life safety challenges that are unique to airports and aircraft—from preserving the integrity of unique architectural designs, to ensuring life safety and fire protection within the stringent constraints of airport security to designing highly effective emergency communications systems (ECS) to providing comprehensive services for effective air side operations safety.
Fire Protection Engineering Services
HAI’s aviation experts routinely work with architects and construction managers to preserve unique architectural design features while ensuring code compliance and fire and life safety. HAI provided expert code compliance and systems designs and demonstrated the effectiveness of alternative design plans to regulatory authorities.
Emergency Security Systems and ECS Systems Design
HAI has extensive experience in designing systems that protect airport patrons, employees, and property from fire, smoke, and other emergency scenarios. Our state-of-the-art ECS systems support the latest notification processes to ensure effective, controlled response to emergency situations.
HAI prepared a Security Concept of Design report for the expansion of the King Abdul Aziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah that included the design of a fully integrated and automated airport security and safety system utilizing state-of the-art technologies to optimize the safety and security of the entire KAIA terminal complex.
Evacuation Design/People Movement
Modeling Services
Airport operators face a wide range of unique technical challenges to emergency response and evacuation planning-including stringent security requirements. HAI’s people movement modeling, takes into account a wide range of factors and behaviors, including code and security limitations to patron reluctance to participate. These comprehensive models enable HAI and architects to design systems and processes that deliver optimal life and property protection in the event of fire, smoke hazard, and other emergency scenarios.
Air Side Operations Safety
HAI has extensive experience in helping airports provide air side operations safety from aircraft evacuation plans to jet fuel fire suppression plans to aeronautical foam firefighting training. All HAI services and consulting are fully integrated to address the unique challenges of the airport environment. They work with airport and airline personnel to implement systems and procedures designed to mitigate risk and deliver maximum life safety protection.
