We provide specialist consultancy services focused on the design phase of life safety systems, supporting clients and design teams from early concept through detailed and technical design stages. Our role is to ensure life safety requirements are clearly defined, technically robust, and fully coordinated within the overall building design before construction begins.
By engaging early in the design process, we help ensure that life safety systems are properly considered alongside architectural, structural, and MEP disciplines. This enables informed decision making, reduces design risk, and supports the delivery of compliant, buildable, and efficient life safety solutions.
The design stage is critical to the successful delivery of life safety systems. Decisions made at this stage have a lasting impact on compliance, constructability, system performance, and long term operational safety. Poorly defined design intent, insufficient coordination, or late consideration of regulatory requirements can lead to redesign, programme delays, and costly changes during construction.
Our design phase consultancy provides independent technical oversight and clarity at the point where it has the greatest impact. We work with project teams to review design proposals, identify risks early, and ensure life safety systems are developed in line with applicable standards, statutory requirements, and best practice.
By addressing life safety holistically during design, we help reduce downstream risk, improve coordination, and support smoother project delivery.
We provide comprehensive consultancy services focused on the design and technical development of life safety systems. Acting as an independent technical advisor, we support clients, architects, engineers, and specialist designers to develop clear, compliant, and coordinated design solutions.
Our approach is collaborative and structured, ensuring that life safety requirements are understood by all parties and appropriately embedded within the design. We focus on translating regulatory and performance requirements into practical, buildable design outcomes.
We develop clear and robust life safety strategies during the early and developed design stages. These strategies define system objectives, performance requirements, and design assumptions for fire detection, alarm, voice communication, and fire suppression systems, providing a clear design framework for the project.
Our strategies align with building use, occupancy, risk profile, and the applicable regulatory environment, forming a coordinated and compliant basis for detailed design development.
We provide independent technical review of life safety system designs during concept, developed, and technical design stages. This includes fire detection and alarm systems, PAVA, EVC, sprinkler systems, water mist, hydrant systems, and gaseous suppression.
Our reviews focus on compliance, coordination with other disciplines, system interfaces, and alignment with the approved life safety strategy and relevant standards.
We offer expert guidance on the regulatory and standards framework applicable during the design phase of life safety systems. This includes interpreting codes, standards, and authority expectations and ensuring they are correctly incorporated into design documentation and specifications.
Our support helps design teams demonstrate compliance clearly and consistently, reducing the risk of late stage challenges or authority comments.
We support the design team by providing ongoing technical input as designs evolve. This includes responding to design queries, reviewing proposed changes, and supporting coordination between detection, alarm, voice communication, and suppression systems and the wider building services design.
Our involvement helps maintain design intent, manage change effectively, and preserve compliance throughout the design development process.
We support final design verification to confirm that life safety systems are sufficiently developed, coordinated, and documented prior to construction. This includes review of specifications, drawings, cause and effect principles, and interface requirements to ensure the design is ready for successful implementation on site.
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Showcasing 25 Years of Industry Experience
Lil Fire has demonstrated a strong understanding of industry standards and best practices. Their consultancy, & BIM design services have been of a high standard, and their approach to collaboration, technical knowledge, and project delivery has been exemplary.
Lil Fire delivered exceptional work on our internal Autodesk Revit Template, and provide continuous design support on our Data Centre projects. Their designs for the Gas Suppression, Low Pressure Water Mist, and Sprinkler systems were accurate, efficient, & compliant.
The quality and output of work from Lil Fire is phenomenal, and we have absolutely no complaints. Their delivery has been consistently precise, reliable, and far exceeding our expectations. Thank you for this, it is a vast improvement over the output we received from previous subcontractors.
