Fire Protection Consulting Group

What Fire Protection Consulting Group does

Fire Protection Consulting Group (FPCG) is a privately held, San Antonio-based fire protection engineering and code consulting firm founded in 2013 that designs and certifies life-safety systems for built environments. The firm delivers detailed engineering designs for fire sprinkler systems, fire alarm systems, mass notification, Emergency Responder Communication Enhancement Systems (ERCES), smoke management, and fire water utilities, applying hydraulic analyses, fire modeling, performance-based design, and iBwave radio signal modeling. Its six service lines—Major Projects, Government Projects, Low Voltage, Code Consulting, General Services, and Fire Flow Testing—are each led by a dedicated project manager and staffed by licensed Fire Protection Engineers (P.E.) holding additional credentials including SET, CBCO, CFCO, and E.I.T.

FPCG is licensed in 31 U.S. states and self-describes as the largest dedicated fire protection and code consulting firm in south-central Texas, reporting 4,000+ completed projects and 300+ in-progress sites across landmark facilities such as the Tower of the Americas, McDonald Observatory, the New Mexico Supreme Court, Lubrizol's Elmendorf plant, and Camp Mabry. The firm is led by co-founders Gilead Ziemba, P.E. (Principal Fire Protection Engineer) and Temple Kennedy, CBCO, CFCO (Principal Consultant), and operates with 21+ named professionals.

The business model is sales-led, B2B professional services with project-based fees; no pricing is publicly disclosed. Customers include architects, engineers, contractors, building owners, property managers, and federal, state, and municipal agencies. Federal government work is accessed through teaming with multiple IDIQ contract holders supporting GSA, DoD, Army Corps of Engineers, Air Force Civil Engineering Center, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, with project footprints spanning the continental U.S., Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Marketing is content-led through a technical blog, LinkedIn (3,740+ followers), Facebook, an email newsletter, and published resources such as an Energy Storage System Safety whitepaper.

Name

Fire Protection Consulting Group

Legal name

Fire Protection Consulting Group, LLC

Website

https://firepcg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fire Protection Consulting Group (FPCG) is a privately held, San Antonio-based fire protection engineering and code consulting firm serving architects, contractors, government agencies, and building owners across 31 U.S. states via six specialized service lines.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fire Protection Engineering Services

NAICS

Security Systems Services (56162)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Fire Sprinkler & Standpipe Systems (Design/Install/Service/Testing) (BPABAHAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Fire Alarm & Life Safety Systems Integration (BPAKAGAF)

Keywords

• Fire protection engineering
• Code consulting services
• Fire alarm design
• Smoke management systems
• Hydraulic flow analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

San Antonio

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Fire Protection Engineering and Code Consulting Services: Professional consulting services for fire protection engineering and code compliance. Revenue derived from project-based fees for services including design, consulting, testing, inspections, and plan reviews across multiple service lines (Major Projects, Government Projects, General Services, Code Consulting, Low Voltage, Fire Flow Testing).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FPCG provides detailed fire protection engineering design and code consulting services for buildings and facilities. Its offerings span engineering design for fire sprinkler, fire alarm, mass notification, emergency responder radio coverage (ERCES), smoke management, and fire water utility systems, organized into specialized service lines: Major Projects, Government Projects, Low Voltage, Code Consulting, General Services, and Fire Flow Testing. The firm is licensed in 31 states and supports federal agencies through IDIQ contract holder relationships.

Product overview

Fire Protection Consulting Group (FPCG) is a fire protection engineering and code consulting firm offering comprehensive services including detailed engineering designs for fire sprinkler, fire alarm, mass notification, emergency responder radio coverage, smoke management, and fire water utility systems. The company operates as a unified service portfolio organized into specialized teams: Major Projects handles large-scale designs for universities, healthcare, high-rises, and government facilities; Government Projects delivers specialized consulting for federal, state, and municipal facilities; Low Voltage designs fire alarm and ERCES systems; Code Consulting provides compliance analysis and hazardous materials evaluations; General Services handles smaller time-sensitive projects; and Fire Flow Testing conducts hydrant and water flow tests. FPCG also publishes technical resources including an Energy Storage System Safety Whitepaper. The firm is licensed in 31 states and serves clients nationally from its San Antonio, Texas headquarters.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Major Projects

Quantifiable outcome

• 300+ in-progress project sites
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• IDIQ Contract Holders (Federal Government A-E Services)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFPCG is actively teamed with several long-term IDIQ contract holders for federal government A-E Services. This partnership enables them to support federal government organizations including GSA, Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Air Force Civil Engineering Center, and Department of Veterans Affairs with fire protection engineering consulting services.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: Engineering firm with a fire protection and structural fire engineering practice that competes for complex, performance-based design work on universities, healthcare facilities, and government projects similar to FPCG's Major Projects portfolio.
• Arup: Global engineering consultancy with a fire safety and life safety practice delivering performance-based fire design, smoke management, and code consulting on complex, high-rise, and large institutional buildings similar to FPCG's Major Projects work.
• Jensen Hughes: Largest pure-play fire protection engineering and code consulting firm in North America, with a service portfolio that directly overlaps FPCG's Major Projects, Government, Code Consulting, and ERCES practices but at a national and global scale.
• Coffman Engineers: Multi-discipline engineering firm with a dedicated fire protection practice offering sprinkler, alarm, and life safety design across federal, healthcare, and higher-ed markets that overlap directly with FPCG's verticals.
• Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates: Engineering consulting firm with a fire protection and life safety practice, particularly active in historic preservation, code consulting, and forensic fire/life safety investigations that overlap with FPCG's code consulting and historic projects (e.g., Tower of the Americas, Quinta Mazatlan).

Direct peers

• TERPconsulting: Specialized fire protection and life safety engineering consulting firm serving architects, contractors, and government clients with design, code consulting, and plan review services closely comparable to FPCG's six-line model.
• Telgian: Fire protection engineering, consulting, and life safety services firm with federal and commercial practices; competes with FPCG on government A-E work and on large-scale fire protection and ERCES design.
• Code Consultants, Inc. Fire protection engineering and code consulting firm providing building and fire code reviews, hazardous materials evaluations, and life safety design services directly comparable to FPCG's Code Consulting and Major Projects lines.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/fireprotectioncodeconsulting
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/3740064/admin/dashboard

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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