Our Services

RIBA Support

We provide support for your Fire Strategy from RIBA Stage 1 to RIBA Stage 6. Our support services ensure fire safety compliance during the design and build phases of construction projects, including the preparation of Fire Statements, Initial and Design Fire Strategies, and Construction Site Fire Safety Plans. 

Residential Extensions

Residential extensions are required when you extend into the loft space or want to create an open plan living space downstairs. Building regulations require you to have a safe, protected, exit in the event of a fire. In certain residential situations, an exit can be 'hang-and-drop' from a first-floor window, but normally we find clients prefer to exit through a door.

Fire Risk Management Within Existing Buildings

What we offer will depend on the complexity of the building and its use. As an example we are often approached by residential nursing homes that would like a written record of their fire strategy.  We provide this as a Retrospective Fire Protection Strategy, which explains how the premises meets the requirements of the Fire Safety Order. Where there are issues we provide potential remedies. This fire strategy can not be used as a Design Fire Strategy as the legislation and guidance for existing, and new build premises, are not the same.

Fire Risk Assessment

A fire risk assessment designed to meet the PAS 97 standard. Ours have been accepted by the fire service as suitable and sufficient in situations when there has been a risk of a prohibition notice issued. 

CFD Modelling

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, is using FDS and Pyrosim software to model the fire development and spread of heat and fire gases through a virtual computer model of the premises. This is able to assess whether a proposed fire engineered solution achieves a suitable level of safety to comply with the functional requirements of part B1 of the Building Regulations.