Fireproofing and Insulation
in Oklahoma
Commercial fireproofing and insulation across Oklahoma, self-performed out of Round Rock, Texas. Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman, Broken Arrow and Lawton, on retail, institutional and industrial construction.
Fireproofing and insulation,
done properly in Oklahoma.
Bahl Fireproofing opened in 1977 as a fireproofing subcontractor in Central Texas. Working here. Dick's House of Sport in Tulsa is ours. What travels with the crew is the same install standard: the listed system at the specified thickness, readings taken and logged as we go, and a closeout package the special inspector can work from rather than argue with.
What that means on a Oklahoma bid is a real production rate instead of an optimistic one, the exclusions written down before the job starts, and an honest answer about the schedule. If we cannot hit your date, you hear it during the bid rather than the week it matters.
Five services across Oklahoma
One subcontractor, one submittal package, one company answering for the fire protection and insulation scope on your job.
01Spray-Applied Fireproofing
SFRM for beams, columns, joists and deck, self-performed across Oklahoma.
Schools and universities, Hospitals and medical office, Data centersSee the service →
02Intumescent Fireproofing
Rated coatings for exposed steel, self-performed across Oklahoma.
Lobbies and atriums, Arena and stadium concourses, Airport terminalsSee the service →
03K-13 Sprayed Fiber Insulation
Thermal and acoustic in one pass, self-performed across Oklahoma.
Gyms and field houses, Natatoriums, Cafeterias and commonsSee the service →
04Spray Foam Insulation
Closed and open cell, commercial envelope, self-performed across Oklahoma.
Backyard shops and barns, Barndominiums and garages, Homes and additionsSee the service →
05Core-Fill Masonry Insulation
Foam-in-place for CMU cores, self-performed across Oklahoma.
Schools and gyms, Churches, Fire stationsSee the service →What we are usually fireproofing in Oklahoma
Retail and big-box
Anchor retail and big-box construction, which is what Dick's House of Sport in Tulsa was: multiple fireproofing products across one store on a retail opening date.
Schools and universities
District construction across the OKC and Tulsa metros, plus university work in Norman on an academic calendar that does not flex.
Healthcare
Hospitals and medical office buildings in both metros, generally phased around a building that stays open.
Industrial and energy
Processing, manufacturing and energy-sector buildings where the steel is exposed and the schedule is driven by an outage window.
Where we work in Oklahoma
Our crews travel out of Round Rock to the job. These are the markets we are in most weeks. If your project is somewhere else in Oklahoma, ask, because we probably still bid it.
Oklahoma City
Institutional and municipal work, distribution where I-35 and I-40 cross, and healthcare on the north side.
Tulsa
Where Dick's House of Sport is. Retail anchors, industrial buildings and the Arkansas River corridor.
Norman
University construction and the student housing that follows it, on academic-calendar schedules.
Broken Arrow
School district construction and light industrial in the fastest-growing part of the Tulsa metro.
Edmond
Suburban school bond work and medical office north of Oklahoma City.
Moore
Rebuild and hardened construction, where the storm history changed how people build.
Stillwater
Campus and athletics construction on a calendar that will not move for anyone.
Enid
Agricultural processing, energy-sector buildings and regional healthcare.
Muskogee
River-port industrial and institutional work in eastern Oklahoma.
Lawton
Institutional and federal-adjacent construction in the southwest corner.
Oklahoma work you can drive past
Oklahoma is easier to bid
than the state next door.
One adoption at the state level instead of chasing down whatever the city decided. The part that still bites you is the state amendments, because that is where it stops matching the book. We read those first. Cheaper than finding out at inspection.
What the code situation actually is in Oklahoma
Oklahoma is unusual in our territory: it adopts its building codes at the state level, through the Uniform Building Code Commission, by reference and with state amendments. That means one adoption to read rather than a few hundred municipal ones. It also means the state amendments matter, because they are where the differences live. We work from the current adopted cycle and confirm the amendments before we bid.
Climate Zone 3A. Mixed-humid, with the temperature swing that comes from sitting between the Gulf and the plains. Hail is a roofing and envelope reality here in a way it is not further south.
How a Oklahoma job runs
Drawings in
Send the plans and the spec sections. We confirm the jurisdiction, the adopted edition and the local amendments in Oklahoma before we price anything.
Bid out
A real number with the exclusions in writing, plus your prequal packet filled out and returned with it.
Submittals
Product data, listed designs and thickness schedules, packaged once for whichever of the five services you handed us.
Mobilize
Crews on the date we committed to, with the headcount the production rate assumed.
Install and log
Readings taken as we go, not reconstructed later, and other trades sequenced around instead of blocked.
Closeout
Thickness maps, batch records and daily reports handed over as one package.
Oklahoma questions
Do you work all of Oklahoma or just the metros?
All of it. Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman, Broken Arrow, Edmond and the rest of the state are regular work, and our own crews travel rather than a local sub carrying our name. If your project is somewhere else in Oklahoma, ask, because we probably still bid it.
How fast can you mobilize in Oklahoma?
Tulsa and Oklahoma City are a straightforward run from Round Rock and we schedule them together when the calendar allows. Give us the bid due date and we will tell you honestly whether we can hold it.
Which general contractors have you worked for in this region?
We work for Crossland, Nabholz and the regional builders working the OKC and Tulsa metros, among others. We are prequalified with most of the regional GCs building here and we will complete a new prequal packet and return it with the bid.
Can you do the fireproofing and the insulation scope on the same Oklahoma job?
That is the point of using us. Fireproofing, intumescent, K-13, spray foam and Core-Fill are all self-performed, so one submittal package and one company covers the whole scope instead of four subs coordinating around each other on the same ceiling.
What does commercial fireproofing cost in Oklahoma?
It depends on the required rating, the steel sizes, the access and the schedule. Any contractor who gives you a per-square-foot number without seeing drawings is guessing. Send the plans and the spec sections and we will price the actual scope.
Whose code applies on a Oklahoma job?
Oklahoma is unusual in our territory: it adopts its building codes at the state level, through the Uniform Building Code Commission, by reference and with state amendments. That means one adoption to read rather than a few hundred municipal ones. It also means the state amendments matter, because they are where the differences live. We work from the current adopted cycle and confirm the amendments before we bid.
Do you work in occupied buildings?
Regularly. Healthcare renovations, occupied campuses and phased retail. Containment, protection of finished work and coordination around the other trades are part of the scope, not an extra line.
Are you licensed and insured to work in Oklahoma?
Working here. Dick's House of Sport in Tulsa is ours. Business registration and trade licensing are two different things, and we confirm what Oklahoma and the local authority having jurisdiction require for the specific scope before we bid it rather than after. We carry commercial general liability, commercial auto, workers compensation and umbrella coverage, and certificates go out with the bid. Send your insurance requirements with the drawings.
From the Bahl library
Austin commercial fireproofing contractor
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IBC Table 601 fire resistance ratings
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SFRM special inspection: what IBC Chapter 17 requires
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Commercial fireproofing cost per square foot
Read the guide →This page describes Bahl Fireproofing's scope of work and general code context. Requirements, adopted code editions and inspection procedures vary by jurisdiction and project; confirm them with your licensed architect or engineer and the authority having jurisdiction. Nothing here is a warranty of a building's compliance or a substitute for the approved construction documents.
The rest of the territory
Six states. How each one adopts code is the part that changes, so each state page starts there.
Every city adopts its own edition of the IBC here, so we confirm the one your jurisdiction runs, amendments included, before the number goes in.
Austin, Round Rock, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and more
Fourteen Texas markets, and the code in each→Home-rule cities set their own edition, so the building code changes at the city limit. The fire code does not: the State Fire Marshal adopts that statewide.
Wichita, Overland Park, Olathe, Kansas City metro and more
City code, statewide fire code, Kansas coverage→No statewide building code, so Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff are three separate conversations. Licensing runs the other way, statewide through the Registrar of Contractors, and we hold it.
Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Chandler and more
The ROC licence, and how Arizona code splits→One State Building Code sets the standard in every city, township and county, so the edition does not change at the city limit the way it does in Texas or Kansas.
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth and more
One state code, Twin Cities to Duluth→A single statewide Commercial Building Code, chapters SPS 361 through 366, administered by DSPS. One code, one set of rules, and one of the more predictable states to bid in.
Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Appleton and more
SPS 361 to 366, and our Wisconsin markets→Bidding a Oklahoma project?
Call, email, or send the drawings through the form. All three land in the same place, and Ross reads them.