About Hexa Fire
Hexa Fire is a fire engineering firm with the ambition to address fire engineering issues and provide tailored design and consultancy. Hexa Fire is based in London, but we provide our services all over the UK. Hexa Fire is founded to provide robust fire engineering solutions and assist the industry in ensuring a safer built environment for all.
Hexa Fire is led by a Chartered Fire Engineer (CEng) registered with the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE). Hexa Fire is keen to work in partnership with our clients to deliver innovative fire engineering services and find robust solutions to ensure a safer built environment. We have access to the latest fire engineering software and technologies, and we can add value to a wide range of projects. With Hexa Fire, you can test all fire safety issues and find effective solutions in a competitive time scale.
Fire Engineering Services
Fire Statement and Planning
We provide fire engineering support from the early stage of the design (RIBA Stage 0) and assist your team in planning applications in terms of fire safety. We also deliver Gateway 1 Fire Statement, London Plan-Fire Statement and Planning Application Fire Safety Strategy (D5 and D12).
Fire Strategy
We support clients throughout all RIBA stages. Our Chartered Fire Engineer will review the proposed plans and details to provide the best fire engineering advice for your scheme.
A robust fire strategy report is developed to cover all fire aspects of your buildings with markup drawings. Our support continues in RIBA stage 5, and we review the Regulation 38 Fire Safety Manual and provide a pre-occupational FRA before handover.
We also provide a retrospective fire strategy for existing buildings and assist clients in addressing fire safety issues in their buildings.
Fire Risk Assessment (FRA)
We provide all types of FRA, including types 1 (visual, communal areas), 2 (intrusive, communal areas), 3 (visual, communal areas and flats) and 4 (intrusive, communal areas and flats).
We provide compartmentation Surveys and fire door surveys for your buildings to check the building compartmentations and provide necessary recommendations to remediate the defective parts.
Fire Risk Appraisal for External Wall (FRAEW) / EWS1 Form
Our Chartered Fire Engineer assesses the external wall fire spread in the building and provides a FRAEW report based on PAS 9980. This risk-based approach can also be taken to recommend proportionate remediation work for the external walls of the existing building.
EWS1 form will be provided by a highly qualified Chartered Fire Engineer (registered through IFE). Both A and B options of the EWS1 form are covered in our scope.
We provide a competitive PI for our external wall works and fire engineering services.
We assist the clients throughout the external wall remediation and provide the best and most cost-effective approach to ensure the primary goal of life safety is achieved.
External Wall Fire Safety
Our facade fire safety service will make sure the facade systems in the newly built or existing building are compliant with the UK Building Regulations and the best guidance.
We support clients during facade remediations for existing buildings and provide progress monitoring site visits with ad-hoc consultations.
Our team is led by a chartered fire engineer with world-class experience in facade fire testing and cladding fire safety experience. This makes us a pioneer in this field and provides the best fire engineering solutions for various facade systems to ensure the life safety of the building occupants and reduce the cost of the project.
Peer Review / Third Party Review
When a second view is needed, our chartered fire engineer is more than happy to peer-review your work and provide the best advice in the industry.
We provide our third-party review service when a highly qualified chartered engineer is needed to review other fire professionals' work and provide a second or third opinion.
Our highly qualified fire engineering team can assist you with HRB projects and provide the best peer review advice on a short time-scale to assist you in your Gateway 2 application.
CFD Modelling
We provide CFD simulations and/or analytical calculations to support fire engineering solutions for complex projects. CFD is usually used to predict smoke and heat spread in buildings to account for Available Safe Egress Time (ASET).
Our team is led by a chartered fire engineer, who holds PhD in CFD modelling for jet fires in the built environment. Different CFD codes can be used to simulate the problem, including FDS and ANSYS FLUENT.
Engineering Judgment
Our chartered fire engineer will be happy to provide the best engineering judgment for complex details and complicated fire safety issues.
Expert witness
When a highly qualified chartered fire engineer is needed to be an expert witness for your fire-related claims, we will be more than happy to assist and provide our best advice.
Hydrogen Fire Safety
We have a wealth of experience in Hydrogen Fire Safety in the built environment. Our director's research background and publications in the field shape our pioneering work in the field of Hydrogen Fire Safety in the built environment. Our understanding of general fire engineering and hydrogen fire safety together leads to the best possible fire engineering solution for projects.
EVs and Battery Fire Safety
Our expert team can provide you with the best industry advice regarding your battery and EV projects in terms of fire safety. Our knowledge and research background can assist your complicated battery and EV projects and provide you with the best fire engineering solution possible.
Research
We have an extensive research background and actively involve in many studies regarding fire safety in built environments.
We have a unique experience with hydrogen/EV fire safety in the built environment. Therefore, we will be happy to provide our service in this fast-growing field.
Due Diligence Fire Safety Review
Due Diligene Fire Safety Review for Buildings
If you are an investor or asset manager purchasing a building and require a highly qualified chartered fire engineer to review its fire safety documentation, our team is the ideal solution. The Hexa Fire team has extensive experience in assessing all necessary fire safety documents for complex buildings, including HRBs. We assist you in identifying potential fire safety issues and provide reassurance when the safety of the building you purchase is a concern.
Our team also supports vendors in preparing for the sale of their buildings. We have a wealth of experience in preparing fire safety documentation and provide support to the sales team in this regard.