Fire Safety In Heritage

We find effective fire safety solutions that fit within conservation constraints and support you in implementing comprehensive protection for your building, achieving compliance, and meeting insurance requirements.

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Understanding Industry Dynamics and Operational Challenges

A grand, ornate wooden-paneled room with a high, decorated ceiling, red curtains along the windows, a large painting above the fireplace, and a central wooden table with chairs, chandeliers, and classical sculptures.

To ensure our fire safety advice and solutions comply with conservation constraints, we collaborate closely with conservationists to grasp the conservation parameters, structure, and requirements that must be adhered to before beginning any work. Our foremost goal is to aid in the preservation of the building while also support you in implementing effective fire safety.

Bringing bespoke engineering and risk management solutions for unique buildings helps:

✓ Satisfy current relevant regulations despite its original design not meeting modern standards.

✓ Maintain conservation and aesthetics of the building.

✓ Keep artefacts and collections inside the building safe from fire.

✓ Achieve compliance.

✓ Meet insurance requirements.

Anticipating And Managing Fire Risks

Heritage buildings often pre-date current building design standards. It presents significant fire safety risks:

⚠️ Building Materials: Timber frame, lath and plaster, ceiling and wall linings, etc.

⚠️ Lack of Fire Compartmentation

⚠️ Lack of Fire-stopping

⚠️ Hidden wall, floor and ceiling voids

⚠️ Complex escape routes

We believe fire safety management in heritage buildings should be treated holistically. When aspects of fire safety measures cannot be practicably achieved within the conservation constraints, an alternative approach can always be sought to mitigate the risks.

Taking A Holistic Approach To Managing Fire Safety

When approaching fire safety management, we always start by understanding your objectives and specific conservation constraints relevant to your building. Then, we work together to develop a plan for achieving them, considering the available resources, timeframe, accessibility and other requirements specific to your portfolio of heritage sites.

OUR APPROACH:

Review policies and procedures for Fire Safety, Health and Safety and Conservation Constraints
Understand your heritage sites and fire safety management arrangements
Determine and review areas of risk (where our assistance is required)
Recommend solutions that meets conservation constraints
Collaborate with your contractor
- Clear technical specification of the works to be carried out
- Assistance with competence assurance (if required)
Support implementation
- Technical query support
- Alignment of contractors and other stakeholders to deliver to a required specification
Assure quality and compliance to ensure the work has been delivered to the required standard and specification.
Provide feedback and recommendations for continuous improvement