Prudent Measures for Safety of Personnel and Reliability of Continued Operations Protection Engineering Consultants (PEC) regularly supports industrial clients to determine hazards and vulnerabilities in terms of personnel safety and operations for …
The recent global trend in the use of ‘vehicles as a weapon’ in the conduct of terror attacks, presents a significant challenge to urban planners, architects, engineers, and building owners. The often-conflicting …
Protection Engineering Consultants (PEC) and its principals and engineers are known for decades of experience related to threats and hazards from the detonation of high explosives and improvised explosives, and, for design …
Protection Engineering Consultants uses risk-based design approaches to adequately mitigate the consequences of armed aggressor, active shooter, and marauding terrorist firearms attack (MTFA) scenarios. Computational modeling is used to quantify occupant egress …
PEC offers façade design and specialty structural engineer (SSE) services to architects, engineers, and contractors. As the specialty structural engineer, we provide a complete facade system design, from each component to the …
Faced with the highly complex and dynamic state of global terrorism, PEC supports the protection of people, systems and infrastructure. The Institute for Economics & Peace releases an annual report that provides …
PEC is currently working with the U.S. Department of State to develop novel energy absorbing connections (EACs) to protect the occupants in buildings subject to large blast loads, such as those from …
As part of our transportation infrastructure work, PEC provides consultancy services for the design and protection of bridges subject to accidental and intentional vessel impact. This work includes analysis to calculate loading …
Protection Engineering Consultants (PEC) recently collaborated with Rutherford + Chekene (R+C)—a structural, geotechnical, and building systems engineering firm headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and our partner on our current GSA IDIQ task …
Cold-formed steel roof trusses are one of the most commonly used roof systems in current construction due to their light weight, long-span capabilities, design flexibility, and fast erection times. PEC has developed three analysis approaches for the design of CFS roof trusses that allow us to better work with our clients to develop a solution that meets their specific project design criteria and budget.