Emch+Berger AG Bern is the largest company in the Swiss Emch+Berger engineering group and runs a dedicated Brandschutz department led by a federally-qualified fire-protection expert. Services span fire-safety concepts, smoke-extraction and evacuation design, structural fire verification (including timber), fire-risk analysis and numerical fire and pedestrian-flow simulation across all SIA phases and VKF/AEAI QA levels 1–4. Its deliverables are an aid to professional judgement, not a substitute.