Fire safety by building type: high-rise residential, HMOs, care homes, healthcare, schools, retail, industrial, heritage and more. Tag your post with the relevant sector tag.
Start here — Sector Focus
Welcome. This is the room for questions that are specific to a building type, not to a discipline. High-rise residential, HMOs, care homes, healthcare estates, schools, retail, ind…
Golden thread in practice on high-rise
Less about the regulation, more about who's actually holding the file. Management company, principal contractor, landlord — who's doing the work in your live projects?
HMO retrofit and the "detection cost" conversation
Landlord wants the minimum spec. You want LD1 or LD2. How are you framing the upside that isn't just risk?
School FRAs in summer — sample or wait?
Building empty for 6 weeks. Client wants the FRA done now for budget reasons. Sample methodology or push it back to occupied term-time?
Listed-building fire stopping — compensating measures that got accepted
Share war stories. What's worked, what hasn't.
Care home PEEPs for residents with fluctuating capacity
Dementia wing, capacity changes hour-by-hour. How are you writing a PEEP that's actually useful to the fire service if it's needed?
