We provide specialist life safety consultancy services during the Pre Construction Services Agreement (PCSA) phase, supporting clients, main contractors, and design teams prior to construction commencement. Our involvement during PCSA focuses on developing robust, coordinated, and compliant life safety system designs that reduce risk and support a smooth transition into construction.
By engaging during the PCSA phase, we help define clear design intent, validate technical solutions, and resolve coordination challenges early, supporting cost certainty, programme confidence, and compliant delivery.
The PCSA phase is a critical opportunity to de risk life safety systems before construction begins. Decisions made during this stage directly influence system selection, compliance, buildability, cost, and installation sequencing. Without clear technical leadership, unresolved design issues can carry through into construction, resulting in delays, variations, and increased safety risk.
Our PCSA phase services provide independent technical oversight and specialist input at the point where it delivers the greatest value. We work closely with project teams to review developing designs, identify technical and compliance risks, and support informed decision making before works commence on site.
We act as a specialist life safety technical advisor during the PCSA phase, supporting collaboration between clients, contractors, designers, and specialist subcontractors. Our role is to ensure life safety system proposals are technically sound, compliant, coordinated, and commercially viable.
Our approach is structured and pragmatic, focusing on resolving technical uncertainty, clarifying scope and responsibilities, and ensuring life safety systems are ready for successful construction delivery.
We review and refine life safety strategies during the PCSA phase to ensure they reflect the developed design, construction methodology, and project constraints. This includes validating system selection, performance criteria, and design assumptions for fire detection, alarm, voice communication, and fire suppression systems.
We provide independent technical review of life safety system designs developed during PCSA, including fire detection and alarm systems, PAVA, EVC, sprinkler systems, water mist, hydrant systems, and gaseous suppression systems.
Our reviews focus on compliance, coordination, constructability, and alignment with the agreed life safety strategy and project programme.
We support the project team in assessing the buildability of life safety system designs. This includes reviewing installation strategies, access requirements, plant space, phasing, and interfaces with other trades to ensure systems can be installed efficiently and safely during construction.
We provide support during PCSA for engagement with approving authorities and third party reviewers. This includes preparing technical responses, supporting compliance demonstrations, and addressing authority comments related to life safety system design.
We assist in identifying and managing technical risks associated with life safety systems during PCSA. Our input supports cost certainty, programme planning, and risk registers, helping ensure that life safety system design solutions are achievable within project constraints.
We support final PCSA design reviews to confirm that life safety systems are sufficiently developed, coordinated, and documented to proceed into construction. This helps ensure a controlled handover from PCSA into delivery, reducing the risk of late design changes.
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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.
