A specialist architectural fire-safety consultancy (株式会社日本防災研究所) founded by leading Japanese fire scientists, providing performance-based fire design, structural fire-resistance verification (耐火性能検証), evacuation safety verification (避難安全検証), engineering reports and building fire-safety evaluations. Its staff include several doctorates in engineering, giving strong scientific grounding to code-compliance and ministerial-certification work. Outputs aid, rather than replace, the design team’s professional judgement.