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Risk Mitigation – Post Grenfell Tower Three Step Process Identifying Priorities Our client engaged with Watts to carry out passive and active fire protection condition surveys through our Building Surveying teams across their entire portfolio. Through detailed, non-intrusive surveys our client has been quickly and objectively appraised of the status of systems and the condition of key building elements, including: ▪ External cladding systems ▪ Fire stopping and compartmentalisation ▪ Fire doors ▪ Fire alarms ▪ Safety lighting Designing Solutions In our role as Principal Designer as well as Chartered Building Surveyor, our teams have worked together with the client to design suitable and robust solutions to address all the issues arising from our surveying works. The client has benefitted greatly from our multi-disciplinary approach in identifying and proposing design solutions to the issues that have been demonstrated in the initial survey stage. Utilising our extensive experience of refurbishment works, our teams have developed standardised designs and specifications to be applied across the client’s portfolio Responding to Client Requirements Watts Project Management have been working with a leading Student Accommodation provider to identify, design and deliver required upgrades to passive and active fire protection across its national estate. Encompassing over 40,000 rooms across over 90 buildings in the UK, our client’s property portfolio ranges from new build to refurbished properties. The condition of critical fire protection to internal and external areas of buildings requires continual review to assess its condition in order to maintain its effectiveness and assure its accordance with building and fire regulations. Undertaking a series of surveys, design work and the delivery of a capital works programme has enabled our client to remain ahead of developing building regulation requirements and to assure the continued safety of its portfolio for customers and staff alike, utilising Watts national office network and multi-disciplinary service offer. Introduction Watts’s have helped out clients across the UK to determine those priorities for Risk Mitigation - Post Grenfell, through a three step project management process: identifying priorities, designing solutions and managing delivery.
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Risk Mitigation – Post Grenfell Tower
Three Step Process
Identifying Priorities
Our client engaged with Watts to carry out passive and active fire protection condition surveys through our Building Surveying teams across their entire portfolio.
Through detailed, non-intrusive surveys our client has been quickly and objectively appraised of the status of systems and the condition of key building elements, including:
▪ External cladding systems ▪ Fire stopping and compartmentalisation ▪ Fire doors ▪ Fire alarms▪ Safety lighting
Designing Solutions
In our role as Principal Designer as well as Chartered Building Surveyor, our teams have worked together with the client to design suitable and robust solutions to address all the issues arising from our surveying works.
The client has benefitted greatly from our multi-disciplinary approach in identifying and proposing design solutions to the issues that have been demonstrated in the initial survey stage. Utilising our extensive experience of refurbishment works, our teams have developed standardised designs and specifications to be applied across the client’s portfolio
Responding to Client Requirements
Watts Project Management have been working with a leading Student Accommodation provider to identify, design and deliver required upgrades to passive and active fire protection across its national estate. Encompassing over 40,000 rooms across over 90 buildings in the UK, our client’s property portfolio ranges from new build to refurbished properties.
The condition of critical fire protection to internal and external areas of buildings requires continual review to assess its condition in order to maintain its effectiveness and assure its accordance with building and fire regulations.
Undertaking a series of surveys, design work and the delivery of a capital works programme has enabled our client to remain ahead of developing building regulation requirements and to assure the continued safety of its portfolio for customers and staff alike, utilising Watts national office network and multi-disciplinary service offer.
Introduction
Watts’s have helped out clients across the UK to determine those priorities for Risk Mitigation - Post Grenfell, through a three step project management process: identifying priorities, designing solutions and managing delivery.
Simon Hall DirectorHead of Project Management
Watts Limited, St James Tower7 Charlotte Street, Manchester, M1 4DZ
E: [email protected]: 07972774410 D: 01618316197
Managing Delivery
Following the identification of issues and the development of design and specifications to resolve them, Watts Programme & Cost Management teams across the UK have been engaged by the client to roll out a prioritised programme of construction works.
Our specialist teams have managed the procurement, mobilisation and execution of works by building contractors across the UK, reporting progress of the works and costs to the client.
Watts Project Managers have worked with estates managers, site health and safety managers and student liaison managers to develop programmes of work to minimise disruption to live student environments, successfully delivering critical construction works with minimal disruption.
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