Managing fire safety through construction, refurbishment and remediation, protecting people, property and programme. Tell us about your site and we will build the fire safety arrangements around it.
Construction is one of the highest-risk periods in a building's life: compartmentation is incomplete, escape routes are temporary, and hot works and combustible materials are present in quantity. A generic plan does little against risks that are specific to the site.
We review what is being built and how, and produce a plan that reflects the design, the build sequence and the conditions on site, aligned to the Joint Code of Practice (JCOP) and HSG 168. We then stay involved, assessing the site against that plan at regular intervals, with risk-based advice that steps up at higher-risk stages such as timber frame erection, cladding installation or extensive hot works.
The aim is simple: to give you a plan that works in practice and the support to keep it working, so fire safety is one less thing on your mind during the build. On fire-engineered projects, this sits alongside fire strategy training for construction teams and RIBA Stage 5 inspections.
A CFSMP sets out how fire risk will be managed on site throughout the build, covering temporary escape routes, hot works controls, detection and alarm arrangements, storage of combustibles, emergency procedures and firefighting access. Ours are developed before the team is on site and reflect the design, the build sequence and the conditions on site, aligned to the Joint Code of Practice (JCOP) and HSG 168.
Fire risk during construction must be managed under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and many project insurers require that the Joint Code of Practice guidance is adopted, which calls for a documented fire safety plan. A bespoke plan is how you evidence all three.
The plan sets out how the site should run; regular assessments check the reality against it. Frequency is risk-based, typically monthly on live sites and more often at higher-risk stages such as timber frame erection, cladding installation or extensive hot works.
Before the team is on site. A plan written from the design and build sequence, rather than fitted to a live site afterwards, costs less, causes less disruption and satisfies insurers from the outset. That said, if you are already on site and need support, talk to us and we will help from wherever you are.
Every site and programme is different, and we will take the time to understand yours. The plan works best written from the design and build sequence, before the site mobilises, so talk to us early and we will propose a scope for the plan and the assessment regime, with a project-specific fee.
The descriptions on these pages outline our standard approach to each service. The scope, methodology and fee for any instruction are determined for the individual building or project and confirmed in a written proposal before work begins.