As the margins in commercial developments continue to tighten, an economic design is imperative to make a scheme viable. By involving Omega Fire Engineering from an early stage we can provide strategic design advice to minimise expenditure and maximise design flexibility.
Areas that fire engineering can lead to cost savings within commercial buildings include reductions in the structural fire protection of the building, limiting fire rated glazing and façades, reducing stair core numbers, allowing shared escape stairs with low level retail or ancillary uses, increasing travel distances, reducing escape widths (or increasing permitted occupancies), limiting the use of compartment floors and active fire safety systems. The engineers at Omega Fire have significant experience in delivering a range of commercial buildings including the approved designs of a number of single stair office buildings, the largest of which has storeys above 50m served by a single stair core.
Commercial