About
Specialist attention from people who know the drawings.
Basalt Life Safety Design is an independent design consultancy. Our work is documentation: layouts, calculations, diagrams, schedules and submittal packages prepared for permitting, installation and coordination.
Design leadership
Our Design Team
Principal Fire/Life Safety Systems Designers
NICET Level IV — Fire Alarm Systems
Basalt Life Safety Design is led by senior fire/life safety systems designers, including NICET Level IV-certified fire-alarm expertise and more than 25 years of combined design experience. The team specializes in permit-focused fire-alarm design, system integration, low-voltage coordination, calculations, takeoffs, and complete technical submittal packages. Senior designers lead the work directly, giving clients access to experienced expertise throughout the project.
- More than 25 years of fire-alarm and life-safety design experience
- NICET Level IV certification in Fire Alarm Systems
- Fire-alarm design, system integration, low-voltage systems and permit-focused documentation
- Direct senior-level attention from scope review through final deliverable
- Experience supporting complex commercial, government, laboratory, industrial and manufacturing environments
- Technical Spanish capability and life-safety design experience across Latin America, Central America and South America
In the studio
Principal Fire/Life Safety Systems Designers — NICET Level IV — Fire Alarm Systems
Engineering review
Professional engineering, where required.
Licensed Fire Protection Engineer
Principal Fire Protection Engineer / Engineer of Record for applicable engagements
For applicable engagements, professional engineering review, responsible-charge oversight, and sealing are provided by a licensed fire protection engineer where required and legally authorized. Availability varies by jurisdiction and project agreement.
- Professional engineering review and responsible-charge oversight for applicable engagements
- Sealing available only where appropriately licensed, authorized and engaged for the project
- Applicable engineering services are supported by professional liability / errors-and-omissions coverage, subject to the actual policy and contracting entity
Device layouts, circuiting and notes coordinated sheet by sheet.
Professional engineering services and sealed documents are provided only where legally authorized and under the responsible charge of the licensed professional identified on the documents. Licensure and service availability vary by jurisdiction.
Mission-critical
Early-detection and suppression coordination for continuous-uptime rooms.
Values
How we work.
Technical accuracy
Documents that hold up to review because the code basis, calculations and assumptions are stated.
Clear communication
Direct answers, documented assumptions and no ambiguity about what is included.
Practical coordination
Designs drawn for the people who install them, not just for the page.
Accountability
One senior professional responsible for the deliverable from scope to issue.
Respect for codes, reviewers and installers
Documentation that makes the reviewer's job and the installer's job easier.
Regional & multilingual coordination
Technical Spanish fluency and hands-on life-safety design experience across Latin America, Central America and South America.
Basalt Life Safety Design is a design consultancy. We do not provide installation, monitoring, emergency response, formal inspection or testing services.