With in-depth expertise and years of experience, we help ensure the fire safety of your building, product, or project. From inspections and compliance assessments to risk analyses and customized solutions, we provide expert advice and concrete measures that meet legal requirements and your specific needs.
With its 70 years of experience in fire qualification of products, Efectis is your partner for assessing fire performances on products, based on tests and analysis. As our customers cannot test all the potential configurations, we are used to help them by defining the best options to test, in order to cover the range that is needed.
This can lead to the delivery of:
The objective of these studies is to provide an optimized answer to the client in terms of cost and time needs. These assessments can also be based on modelling studies used as justifications or recommendations.
These studies are intended for all those involved in fire safety (architects, inspectors, contractors, etc.), and can be considered for any type of construction for which a fire resistance performance is expected.
The fire and explosion investigations are necessary based on specific investigative methods, generally implemented by experts from specialized organizations.
In post-fire or explosion investigations, the use of laboratory work provides essential support to this experts, enabling them to confront the various hypotheses resulting from the analysis of the facts, to approach the truth behind the incident, and to determine responsibilities.
Whether it is to quantify the observed phenomena, support the formulated hypotheses, and provide objective and scientifically grounded answers to the questions raised, Efectis offers judicial experts, insurers, and specialized investigators the expertise of its teams in small- and large-scale fire testing, its fire modelling expertise, its operational firefighting experience, as well as the technical and scientific resources of its laboratories.
The standardized experimental protocols and rigorous analytical methodologies applied during testing campaigns and numerical studies provide scientific data that can be used as technical evidence, admissible and credible in court.
The technical assessments carried out by the Efectis Investigation Division ensure a precise, reliable, and impartial evaluation of the causes and conditions of the fire, which is essential for the fair determination of responsibilities.