Assured provide advanced Fire Engineering Services that combine science, design, and regulation to deliver compliant, efficient, and cost-effective fire safety solutions. Whether you’re developing a new build, adapting a complex structure, or resolving design challenges, our fire engineers help you achieve safety without compromising design intent.
Fire engineering applies science and engineering principles to achieve safe, efficient, and compliant building designs. It looks beyond standard guidance to assess how a building performs in real fire scenarios — balancing safety, functionality, and cost.
A well-designed fire engineering solution can:
Overcome space or layout constraints while maintaining safety.
Reduce unnecessary fire protection measures through justified design.
Provide performance-based evidence that meets or exceeds Approved Document B requirements.
Model realistic evacuation scenarios and smoke movement.
We follow a structured, evidence-based approach — combining analysis, modelling, and collaboration — to develop practical, compliant fire engineering solutions that meet both design intent and safety objectives.
Understand project goals, challenges, and design constraints.
Analyse building layouts, materials, and intended use.
Use advanced tools to predict performance.
Produce detailed reports with supporting calculations, drawings, and code references.
Engage with architects, design teams, and authorities to ensure acceptance and compliance.
Our fire engineering solutions balance innovation with compliance — helping clients achieve safer, more efficient designs while meeting the highest technical and regulatory standards.
Achieve compliance while maximising usable space.
Avoid over-specification through risk-based analysis.
Demonstrated compliance with BS 7974 and Building Regulations Part B.
Reports prepared by qualified fire engineers using recognised modelling software.
Designs that adapt to modern construction and management needs.
Robust quality management in everything we do
Recognised competence in life safety fire risk assessments
Unlike manufacturers or contractors, we are independent and impartial. That means our guidance is always focused on your compliance and safety — never on selling additional products.
We bridge the gap between regulation and innovation — delivering technically justified, compliant, and practical fire engineering solutions tailored to your project.
Expert insights from our professional fire engineers.
Fire engineering applies science, data, and engineering principles to design buildings that achieve equivalent or improved levels of fire safety compared to standard code guidance. It allows safe, flexible, and cost-efficient solutions for complex designs.
Fire engineering is typically required when prescriptive guidance (Approved Document B) cannot be met — for example in atypical layouts, high-rise, large-volume, or heritage buildings. It’s also used to justify alternative approaches or resolve Building Control queries.
A Fire Strategy defines how a building prevents, contains, and responds to fire; Fire Engineering uses modelling and quantitative analysis (e.g., smoke, evacuation, and structural performance) to validate or optimise that strategy.
Fire engineering follows BS 7974 – Application of Fire Safety Engineering Principles and its supporting documents (PD 7974 series), alongside BS 9999, Approved Document B, and the Building Regulations 2010.
Depending on the project, engineers may use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for smoke and heat movement, and evacuation simulation software to analyse occupant egress and evacuation times.
Yes. By using performance-based analysis, fire engineering can demonstrate that alternative designs still meet safety objectives, potentially reducing unnecessary walls, vents, or oversized escape routes — without compromising compliance.
Our reports provide quantitative evidence and code references showing that the design meets or exceeds the intent of Building Regulations Part B, enabling smoother approval and fewer redesigns.
Yes. We prepare BS 7974-compliant performance-based reports supported by modelling, calculations, and sensitivity analyses — suitable for Building Control, insurers, and project stakeholders.
• High-rise and complex residential developments
• Hospitals and healthcare facilities
• Transport hubs, arenas, and large assembly buildings
• Industrial and warehouse sites
• Mixed-use or heritage buildings
