High Rise

Joule Group’s fire safety engineers bring proven expertise to high-rise and super high-rise developments across the UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. From concept to completion, we deliver tailored fire strategies that address the unique challenges of tall buildings, whether it's vertical evacuation, complex mixed-use occupancies, or innovative façade systems. Our work combines deep technical knowledge with a collaborative approach, ensuring compliance, resilience, and design freedom on some of the world’s most ambitious projects.

Latest Projects

Joule Group has worked on numerous high-rise and super high-rise projects across the UK, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, and our team are deeply familiar with the complex fire safety challenges they present. Find out more about some of our recent projects below:

King Abdullah Financial District

A mixed-use financial district in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia which consists of over 83 buildings, including 61 high-rise towers, combining residential, commercial and entertainment spaces. Joule Group provided fire life safety services to several aspects of the project, ranging from masterplanning and fire safety framework development, to fire strategy development and approvals for individual parcels, as well as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of atria smoke control systems within high-rise towers.

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Lusail Plaza Towers

Joule Group provided fire and life safety strategy design consultancy services for two 70-storey high-rise towers, six low-rise podium buildings and associated underground carpark areas; fire and life safety plans (CAD) for Qatar Civil Defense submission for Design Check stage 2; and Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling services for the basement and podium buildings atria emergency ventilation systems.

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City Tower

From the early stages of the project, Joule Group collaborated with the client, design architect and lead consultant to develop a highly engineered fire strategy that is a best fit for City Tower due to its 82-storey, 355-metre height and end user characteristics. Key design challenges included the use of lifts for evacuation and the integration of refuge floors within the tower to aid evacuation.

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Kigali, Rwanda

Located in the heart of Kigali, Rwanda, the project comprises two landmark towers—one commercial office and one hotel. Joule Group provided comprehensive fire and life safety consultancy from the earliest concept design stage through to detailed design. Our expert input has been instrumental in guiding the architectural and engineering teams toward a robust, compliant, and efficient fire and life safety strategy tailored to the unique challenges of high-rise development in the region.

High-rise projects demand more than just technical compliance, they require a fire safety strategy that enables design ambition without compromising on safety. At Joule Group, we bring the experience and foresight needed to deliver resilient, code-compliant solutions in some of the world’s most complex tower developments.
- David Black, Director - Middle East

Every high-rise building presents a unique fire safety challenge, from evacuation planning to façade performance. Our role is to simplify the complexity, working closely with design teams to ensure that safety is seamlessly integrated into every stage of the project.
- Luke Cameron, Associate Fire Engineer

Insights from our team

At Joule Group, our highly skilled engineers are privileged to find themselves working on high-rise and super high-rise buildings. Read some of our latest thought leadership content below:

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