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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…
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?
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?
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?
Listed-building fire stopping — compensating measures that got accepted
Share war stories. What's worked, what hasn't.
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?
