Fire & Life Safety Analysis
Automated Code Compliance
Automatically check construction drawings for fire rating continuity, egress compliance, and life safety code requirements. Identify code violations before plan review to reduce rejection cycles and costly rework.
Why Fire & Life Safety Analysis Matters
How It Works
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Upload Drawings
Drop your architectural and life safety drawing sheets into Articulate. We process floor plans, egress plans, and fire-rated assembly details.
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Code Identification
AI identifies the applicable building code (IBC, local amendments) and occupancy classifications from your drawings and code analysis sheets.
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Compliance Check
Every fire-rated wall, egress path, exit sign, and occupancy calculation is checked against the identified code requirements.
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Issue Report
Receive a prioritized list of code compliance issues with specific code references, sheet locations, and recommended remediation steps.
Key Capabilities
- Fire-rated assembly verification — confirms that fire-rated walls, floors, and ceilings maintain their rating through penetrations and intersections
- Egress path analysis — validates exit access travel distances, common path of travel, and dead-end corridor lengths against IBC Chapter 10
- Occupancy load calculation — checks that exit capacity (door widths, stair widths, corridor widths) meets calculated occupant load requirements
- Fire separation distance checks — verifies exterior wall fire-resistance ratings and opening protectives based on proximity to property lines
- Sprinkler coverage review — identifies areas that may lack adequate sprinkler coverage based on room layouts and obstruction rules
Why This Matters
Fire and life safety requirements are the single largest category of plan review comments. Getting rejected at plan check means weeks of redesign, resubmission, and schedule impact. Worse, fire code violations discovered during construction can halt work entirely — requiring demolition and reconstruction of non-compliant assemblies.
Articulate pre-screens your drawings against IBC fire and life safety requirements before you submit for plan review. Catch the issues that plan checkers will flag — egress path distances, fire-rated continuity, exit capacity — and resolve them while changes are still on paper, not in concrete.
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See Fire & Life Safety Analysis in Action
Upload your drawings and identify fire code issues before plan review.