Stanton Engineering Services is a fire protection engineering firm founded in 1989 and based in Columbia, Maryland. It provides life safety and building code analysis, fire suppression and fire alarm/mass notification design, and performance-based design. It also offers smoke control design and testing, hydraulic water supply analysis and fire hazard and risk analysis. Other services include plan review, condition surveys, witness testing and commissioning. Its engineers are licensed in several states and the District of Columbia, and it works largely for federal, defence, healthcare and data-centre clients.