Public Address and Voice Alarm (PAVA) systems play a critical role in life safety by delivering clear, intelligible voice messages during emergency situations, supporting safe and controlled evacuation. When correctly designed and integrated, PAVA systems significantly enhance the effectiveness of a building’s fire and life safety strategy.
Lil Fire delivers specialist PAVA system services that combine technical expertise, practical experience, and modern digital delivery. We support projects from early strategy through to detailed design, coordination, and construction support, ensuring systems are compliant, intelligible, and fully integrated with fire detection and evacuation strategies.
Lil Fire provides technical management and oversight to support the successful delivery of PAVA systems throughout the project lifecycle. We work closely with clients, design teams, approving authorities, acoustic specialists, and contractors to ensure PAVA system objectives, performance requirements, and interfaces are clearly defined and effectively managed.
Our involvement typically includes oversight of PAVA strategy, coordination of responsibilities, review of technical proposals, and support during installation, commissioning, and handover. This structured approach helps manage risk, avoid late stage changes, and ensure systems perform as intended during both emergency and non emergency operation.
Our PAVA design services support both new build and existing buildings and range from early concept development through to detailed coordinated design. We focus on developing PAVA solutions that achieve the required levels of speech intelligibility, coverage, resilience, and operational clarity.
Design development considers zoning, loudspeaker selection and layout, amplifier and control architecture, fault tolerance, intelligibility targets, background noise levels, and integration with fire detection and control systems. Our designers work using Autodesk Revit, producing coordinated 3D BIM models that support spatial coordination, equipment layout, and clear integration with other building services.
Digital delivery allows coordination and spatial challenges to be identified early, supporting efficient installation and long term system performance.
Lil Fire provides independent PAVA consultancy to support informed decision making and technical assurance. We advise on system suitability, feasibility, performance criteria, and compliance, and support the integration of PAVA systems into wider fire and evacuation strategies.
Our consultancy services are often used on projects involving complex occupancies, large public spaces, phased evacuation strategies, or enhanced life safety requirements. We provide clear, practical advice that balances life safety performance, compliance, constructability, and commercial considerations.
Lil Fire is familiar with and experienced in working to a wide range of recognised national and international standards and guidance applicable to public address and voice alarm systems. Our experience includes UK, European, and international codes of practice, as well as project specific and insurer led requirements.
This breadth of knowledge allows us to support projects involving complex evacuation strategies, international stakeholders, and varying regulatory expectations, ensuring PAVA systems are robust, intelligible, and defensible.
We have experience across a wide range of PAVA system configurations and applications, including:
This experience allows us to advise on the most appropriate PAVA solution based on building use, occupancy profile, evacuation strategy, and operational requirements.
Lil Fire supports businesses, developers, and building owners by providing clear and reliable PAVA system solutions that protect life and support effective emergency communication. We help organisations achieve compliance with applicable life safety requirements while meeting stakeholder and insurer expectations.
Our role is to reduce technical uncertainty, support effective evacuation strategies, and deliver systems that provide confidence in intelligibility, reliability, and performance.
Lil Fire is recognised for its expertise in public address and voice alarm systems, built on many years of senior level industry experience and involvement in a wide range of technically complex projects. Our team has worked on developments where evacuation strategy, intelligibility, and system resilience were critical to life safety outcomes.
This depth of experience allows us to deliver practical, well coordinated, and technically robust PAVA system solutions that clients can rely on.
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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.
