South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
SLaM provides a range of mental health services for clients across south London. The nature of SLaM’s clients, combined with their diverse building stock, presents some unique challenges in providing a safe and secure environment, whilst maintaining service delivery. We are proud to be trusted by SLaM to provide fire consultancy services on a range of their projects.
Newlon Housing Trust
We were first asked by Newlon to provide advice on a number of their existing buildings, where anti-social behaviour had led to conflicts between the requirements for security and fire safety. We now advise Newlon on the design of their new buildings, ensuring that fire safety and security conflicts are resolved and that fire safety measures do not have an unmanageable maintenance burden.
5 Aldermanbury Square
When a tenant wanted to link compartment floors in this award-winning City centre building, they came to us for advice. Using a range of techniques we were able to assess the impact of the proposals on the evacuation strategy, boundary separation distances and the fire resistance of the building’s structure.
Great Places Housing Group
Great Places provides 15,000 homes in 30 council areas in the north west of England. Although fire risk assessments had previously been carried-out by other firms, the findings were inconsistent and the recommendations not appropriate. We were therefore asked to re-assess a sample of their properties, in order to provide a balanced and consistent view across a large and diverse housing stock.
Frobisher Crescent, Barbican Estate
Fraigneux's Ian Taylor developed the fire strategy to enable Frobisher Crescent, in London's Barbican Estate, to be converted from office use to 69 luxury apartments. The strategy had to ensure that modern safety standards could be met whilst working within the tight constraints of the listed building's original structure. This project was undertaken when Ian was at Locke Carey.
Moat
Moat provides homes for thousands of people in London and the South East. We have undertaken fire risk assessments of hundreds of Moat's premises, including flats, sheltered accommodation and supported housing. By identifying measures which are practicable to implement, in order to provide a satisfactory level of safety, we are able to help Moat to meet their statutory responsibilities.
Steamer Trading
The design of Steamer Trading's new store included a bespoke stair and floor structure, constructed from exposed stainless steel and glass. Subjecting the stair to a fire test was clearly not practicable, so using our structural fire engineering expertise we were able model the performance of the structure in fire, enabling the architect's vision for exposed stainless steel to be realised.
Fire Protection Association
The expertise of our engineers was recognised when we were asked to contribute to the development of the Fire Protection Association’s five day Life Safety Fire Engineering course. Aligned to National Occupational Standard 5.2, the course is recommended for fire engineers, building control bodies and fire officers.
