BUILDING SAFETY AND REMEDIAL WORKS PROGRAMMES
Fire safety and building safety remediation contractors
Remediation is where the money and the risk both sit. A survey identifies the works, a deadline attaches to them, and the duty holder then has to appoint a contractor capable of delivering at a scale most compliance firms never touch. The gap between firms who will quote and firms who can deliver is wider here than anywhere else in the sector.
The desk approaches the market anonymously, checks track record at comparable scale, verifies third party certification against the specific activity rather than a generic badge, and comes back with a shortlist you can defend to a board, an insurer or a regulator.
Passive fire protection
- · Compartmentation surveys and remedial works
- · Fire stopping and service penetration sealing
- · Cavity barrier installation and rectification
- · Structural steel and timber protection
Fire safety specialists →Fire door programmes
- · Portfolio fire door surveys and condition grading
- · Door replacement across multi-site estates
- · Repair and remedial works to existing door sets
- · Installer certification and handover evidence
Active fire systems
- · Alarm system upgrade and full replacement
- · Sprinkler and suppression system retrofit
- · Emergency lighting system replacement
- · Smoke control and ventilation remediation
Enforcement response
- · Enforcement and improvement notice remedial works
- · Prohibition notice response and reoccupation
- · Insurer-driven remedial requirements
- · Evidence packs for the enforcing authority
Electrical remediation
- · Unsatisfactory condition report remedial works
- · Distribution board and rewire programmes
- · Emergency lighting deficiency close-out
- · Multi-site remedial works scheduling
Electrical specialists →Water system remediation
- · Dead leg removal and pipework alteration
- · Tank replacement and system disinfection
- · Outbreak response and clearance sampling
- · Written scheme rebuild after a failed assessment
Water hygiene specialists →What we check on a remediation programme
- Track record on comparable projects at comparable scale, not a portfolio of much smaller jobs.
- Third party certification for the specific activity in scope. In passive fire protection especially, one certification does not cover another.
- The resourcing actually allocated to your programme, and whether it survives the contractor winning their next job.
- Financial standing proportionate to the project value, and whether a retention or bond is appropriate.
- Whether the survey the scope came from is sound enough to build a programme on.
- The evidence and handover package, because remediation you cannot evidence has not discharged the duty.
Common questions
We have an enforcement notice with a deadline. How fast can you move?
Call the desk on 020 7293 0327 rather than waiting on a form. Enforcement work is handled differently because the deadline is fixed and the consequence of missing it is not commercial. We will tell you honestly whether the timescale is achievable with the firms available.
How do you check a contractor can handle a remediation project?
Track record at comparable scale, third party certification for the specific activity, the resourcing they will actually put on it, and financial standing against the project value. Passive fire protection in particular is an area where certification for one activity does not cover another, and we check the scope line by line.
Do you cover cladding and external wall remediation?
We can help you find and assess contractors, and we can help you read the field. Large external wall projects are usually formally procured and often funded through a scheme with its own requirements, so what the desk adds varies. Tell us where you are and we will be straight about it.
What about the survey that identified the works?
If the remedial scope came out of a survey you are not confident in, say so. Building a remediation programme on a weak survey is the most expensive mistake available in this category, and a second opinion is cheap by comparison.
Is the desk free on remediation work?
Yes. Free to the building owner, operator or public body. We are paid by the appointed contractor and only on appointment.
OPEN A BRIEF
Open a remediation brief
Send the scope, the survey if you have one, and any deadline you are working to. Urgent enforcement work is handled by phone on 020 7293 0327. Free to the building owner, always.