Burkan Engineering

VR fire safety training

Simulation and training in VR

We built a VR fire safety program that lets trainees run drills, practise equipment use and sit assessments inside a building that behaves like the real thing.

Tech

Unity
Blender
ARCore
Unity Cloud

Challenge

Live fire drills are expensive, disruptive and limited in what they can safely show. Burkan needed a way to train people repeatedly on realistic scenarios and measure how they actually respond, without lighting a fire.

Result

Trainees rehearse fire response in a space that matches their real environment, and trainers get an assessment of each run instead of a headcount at the assembly point.

What we built

A life-size building modelled to building code, with exits, corridors, stairwells and signage placed where the code puts them.
Fire equipment and fixtures modelled to specification, so extinguishers, hose reels, alarms and hydrants look, sit and operate as they do on site.
Original recorded audio for alarms, equipment and fire, so trainees hear what they would hear in a real emergency.
Guided drills for evacuation and equipment handling, followed by scored assessments of the trainee’s decisions and sequence.
Built VR-first in Unity, with content managed and updated through Unity Cloud.