Summary
We are a specialist fire safety consultancy offering fire risk assessments to comply with the Regulatory Reform Order and fire engineering design.Exova Warringtonfire is part of the Exova Group, a major international testing organisation with UK offices in London, Warrington and Manchester.
Within the Warringtonfire business there are three main divisions with the Fire Engineering (Europe) division specialising in the follwoing areas:
1. Fire risk assessments in accordance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
2. Regulatory approvals
3. Fire Engineering Design
4. Development and review of fire safety management plans.
5. Emergency plans including detailed special needs evacuations plans and PEEPs.
6. Fire system design and survey work, especially in respect of fire alarms, fixed fire suppression systems and compartmentation systems.
Our areas of expertise include:
Fire Risk Assessment and Ancillary Services
1. Fire risk assessment.
2. Fire safety audits.
3. Liaising with the Fire and Rescue Service regarding enforcement actions.
4. Review and development of causes and effects matrices, ensuring they are aligned with the evacuation philsophy for the building and the fire safety management plan.
5. Review and development of fire safety management plans.
6. Fire investigation.
7. Review and development of company wide fire safety policy.
8. Fire system efficacy and design code compliance surveys.
9. Fire system design review and system rationalisation.
Fire Engineering and Design Services
1. Fire safety strategy development and approval by the Regulators.
2. Evacuation modelling.
3. Finite element analysis.
4. Whole frame finite element analysis (using Vulcan software).
5. Radiated heat analysis and modelling.
6. Smoke control modelling and calculation of required ventilation / extraction requirements.
7. Liaison with Building Control, District Surveyors, Approved Inspectors and the Fire and Rescue Service to gain approval and buy-in to proposed designs and solutions.
8. Providing Expert Witnesses to act in legal cases.
Within the Warringtonfire business there are three main divisions with the Fire Engineering (Europe) division specialising in the follwoing areas:
1. Fire risk assessments in accordance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
2. Regulatory approvals
3. Fire Engineering Design
4. Development and review of fire safety management plans.
5. Emergency plans including detailed special needs evacuations plans and PEEPs.
6. Fire system design and survey work, especially in respect of fire alarms, fixed fire suppression systems and compartmentation systems.
Area of Expertise
Our areas of expertise include:
Fire Risk Assessment and Ancillary Services
1. Fire risk assessment.
2. Fire safety audits.
3. Liaising with the Fire and Rescue Service regarding enforcement actions.
4. Review and development of causes and effects matrices, ensuring they are aligned with the evacuation philsophy for the building and the fire safety management plan.
5. Review and development of fire safety management plans.
6. Fire investigation.
7. Review and development of company wide fire safety policy.
8. Fire system efficacy and design code compliance surveys.
9. Fire system design review and system rationalisation.
Fire Engineering and Design Services
1. Fire safety strategy development and approval by the Regulators.
2. Evacuation modelling.
3. Finite element analysis.
4. Whole frame finite element analysis (using Vulcan software).
5. Radiated heat analysis and modelling.
6. Smoke control modelling and calculation of required ventilation / extraction requirements.
7. Liaison with Building Control, District Surveyors, Approved Inspectors and the Fire and Rescue Service to gain approval and buy-in to proposed designs and solutions.
8. Providing Expert Witnesses to act in legal cases.