Built for Strength. Designed for Safety.

We often hear, "We need a training facility but don't know where to start or how much land and money to request." Regardless of where you are in the process, we and our teaming partners can help you with:

• Needs assessments
• Programming
• Business planning
• Site assessments
• Master planning
• Conceptual designs
• Creating materials to support funding requests
• Full A/E design services
• Construction administration services

Whether new recruits or experienced incumbents, students need to be challenged with realistic, real-world scenarios on the training grounds to develop, maintain, and improve their tactical skills and decision-making abilities. We plan and design simulated cityscapes that resemble the neighborhoods in your community, to facilitate essential fire, police, rescue, and EMS training, and to reinforce students' sense of being interwoven into the community they proudly serve.

We are a national leader in designing custom fire and police training structures. We designed our first fire training burn building in 1984 and have designed more than 170 fire and police training structures since. Those projects have utilized Class A fuels and gas-fired props, ranged from 1,350 sf to 22,000 sf, been up to seven stories tall, and have been customized for various fire, police, rescue, and EMS training scenarios. 

We provide professional engineering services for structural integrity evaluations of live fire training structures (burn buildings), as required by NFPA 1400, Section 8.2 (previously required by NFPA 1402 and NFPA 1403). Having performed more than 680 such evaluations at over 230 existing live fire training structures, EL&M's engineers and technicians have a thorough understanding of what questions to ask and what to look for when visually surveying and testing your live fire training structure.