Case study 6: Building conversion

...lengthy project delays were avoided...

Situation
Major house builder was to convert a historic building to duplex apartments. Design of which was well advanced. The constraints of the historic building resulted in internal layouts being non-compliant and unacceptable to the building control body providing the building control services.

Needed
A fire engineering approach to provide strategy which was acceptable to the building control body without altering the design for which listed building consent had been granted.

Quantified benefit
A fire suppression system was adopted to provide the equivalent of code compliance without any changes to the fabric thus avoiding having to resubmit a listed building application and possible lengthy delays.

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