About Apex Fire Engineering

Technical Rigour, Operational Grounding

Apex Fire Engineering was established to provide fire safety advice that organisations can rely on — technically rigorous, operationally grounded, and entirely independent. We do not sell, install, or maintain fire safety products or systems. We have no commercial relationships that could influence our findings. Our only obligation is to provide accurate, proportionate, and clearly communicated fire safety advice.

Every instruction we accept is led by a senior practitioner from initial engagement through to report delivery. We do not use subcontractors, and we do not delegate assessments to junior or trainee assessors. This model limits the volume of work we can accept, and that is by design. We compete on quality, rigour, and depth of experience — not on volume or price.

Operational Firefighting Experience

What distinguishes Apex from many fire safety consultancies is the depth of operational firefighting experience that underpins our technical work. Our fire risk assessments are informed not only by knowledge of legislation and standards, but by direct experience of how fire behaves in real buildings, how compartmentation performs under fire conditions, and how emergency services operate at incidents.

This operational perspective shapes every assessment we produce. It means we identify risks that desk-based assessors may overlook, and it ensures that our recommendations are practical, achievable, and grounded in an understanding of fire service operational procedures.

Quality Management

Every report produced by Apex Fire Engineering undergoes a structured quality review before issue. Our quality management process includes:

• Technical review of all findings and recommendations
• Consistency checking across portfolio instructions
• Verification of legislative and standards references
• Peer review of complex or high-consequence assessments

Leadership — Direct Access to Senior Expertise

Apex Fire Engineering is led by Lee Grint, a fire safety practitioner with direct operational firefighting experience and a career in fire engineering consultancy spanning residential, commercial, institutional, and secure sectors. Lee has personally delivered over 1,500 fire risk assessments across housing associations, local authorities, higher education, healthcare, and law enforcement estates — including Metropolitan Police custody suites, NHS Trust clinical environments, high-rise residential towers, and Ministry of Defence secure facilities.

When you instruct Apex, you speak directly to Lee — not a sales team, not an account manager, not a junior site surveyor. The person who accepts your instruction is the person who attends site, writes the report, and answers your questions. This is not a large corporate mill where fire safety is subordinated to revenue targets. Apex is deliberately structured to deliver bespoke, deeply considered engineering solutions where every instruction receives the same meticulous attention.

Professional Indemnity Insurance

Apex Fire Engineering maintains comprehensive Professional Indemnity Insurance covering all fire safety, fire engineering, and cladding intervention services. In a market where many insurers have withdrawn PII cover for fire safety and cladding work — or applied severe exclusions — Apex's fully insured status removes a critical barrier for procurement teams conducting due diligence.

Details of our PII coverage are available upon request as part of our Public Sector Compliance Pack.