Benjamin Casey

Benjamin Casey is a licensed PE in Fire Protection Engineering plus leading specialist in Building Codes and Physical Security.

Executive and resilience specialist in the building industry - Expert in evaluating risk, balancing safety with security, and managing complex programs including "surgical" engineering problem-solving for complex multi-disciplinary legal issues with an edge from a vast array of code consulting experience and engineering modeling.

Creator-Host of the "FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING PODCAST" on YouTube, Apple & Spotify

His firm, CODEX, also has an array of A/E/C experts who may provide insight into other architecture or engineering discipline-related needs, if they arise, to support each unique case's win-strategy.

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I've developed numerous firms from my own startups to large firm expansion initiatives and personally specialize in risk-based engineering (i.e., Resilience) and consulting for diverse clients in a broad range of A/E/C industry markets. Including extensive experience within Government, Transit & Tunnels, Multinational Corporate/Commercial, Education, Data Centers, State & Local Government, Mission Critical & SCIF, Aviation, Historic & Cultural, Healthcare, Industrial, Oil & Gas, Institutional, Justice & Corrections, Sports & Assembly, Sitewide Emergency Management & Resilience Planning; plus successfully executed alternative Design-Build and P3 construction methodologies leveraging my Design-Build Institute Board Certification (assoc. DBIA).

My career was founded on designing systems ranging from Wet-Pipe Sprinkler and Speaker/Strobe Notification to advanced Gaseous Suppression and Video Image Smoke Detection for fire protection; or Access Control and Intrusion Detection to Intelligent Video Analytics and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) for security.

Expert Witness and Forensics expertise includes:

~ Fire Protection Engineering

~ Building Codes & Standards

~ Determination of Origin & Cause

~ Heat Transfer & Fire Spread Analysis

~ Hazmat/Explosion

~ Life Safety & Property Loss from all emergencies

~ Physical & Technical Security Systems Breaches

~ Life-Threatening System Failures or Inadequacies

~ Accident & Safety Incident Re-creation

Experience providing engineering to clients via complex project delivery in the following areas:

• High-Hazard and specialized multi-discipline Building Engineering

• Life Safety, Fire, and Building Code Consulting

• Performance-based Design including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Egress Modeling

• Building Construction Evaluations and Engineering Judgements/Variances

• Fire Suppression, Fire Alarm, and Security Systems Cost Estimation and Commissioning

• Construction Administration and Negotiations with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)

• Fire alarm and Fire Suppression Sub-systems Design including Systems Integration

• Video Surveillance, Access Control, and Intrusion Detection Sub-systems Design

• Threat/Vulnerability/Risk/Cost/Benefit Analyses for Emergency Preparedness and Resilience

• Central Monitoring/Reporting Control Center Layout and associated Systems Design

• Fiber/Copper Infrastructure Design including Communication System Networking

• Site-Wide Strategic Resilience Planning, Emergency Management, and Business Continuity

• Emergency Communication or Mass Notification System Design

• Market/Practice Development plus Research, Testing, and Evaluation (RDT&E)

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Legal Support • Expert Witness • Construction Litigation • Property Law • Security • Disaster Response • Project Execution • 3D Design • AHJ Negotiation