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Sectors

Fire safety, by sector.

Residential, education, local authorities, commercial and managing agents: each carries its own regime and its own pressures. Apex matches the work to the buildings you actually run — and to the duties that sit on the person responsible for them.

Residential towers and construction cranes in the London skyline
Fire safety for residential and high-rise buildingsIndependent assessment and engineering across social housing, leasehold blocks and higher-risk buildings — with no remediation arm to push.
Timber double fire doors with wire-mesh vision panels in a corridor, with a blue 'Fire escape, keep clear' sign mounted above
Fire safety for education buildingsFrom universities and student accommodation to schools and further education colleges — proportionate, independent fire safety advice for the education estate.
A stairwell viewed from the top, with carpeted steps descending, a wooden handrail, and an illuminated green fire exit sign near the ceiling
Fire safety for local authorities and public estatesIndependent fire safety advice for councils managing mixed public estates — with no installation or remediation interest, and advice that can withstand public scrutiny.
The Gherkin rising behind the medieval church of St Andrew Undershaft
Fire safety for commercial and workplace buildingsIndependent fire risk assessments and fire safety services for offices, retail, logistics, hospitality and mixed commercial premises across London & the South East.
A communal corridor with a maroon fire door, a green running-man fire exit sign, and white service cupboard doors with generic circular safety signage
Fire safety for managing agentsPortfolio-wide compliance across mixed residential and commercial buildings — independent advice that leaseholders and freeholders can rely on.
The Portland stone facade of a large civic police headquarters building behind mature plane trees
Fire safety for police and secure operational estatesIndependent fire risk assessment across custody, operational and residential training sites — one methodology, applied without exception.
A smoke and fire ventilation control panel with a manual smoke vent release and status indicator lights
Fire safety for healthcare estatesIndependent advice for hospital estates, where compartmentation has to hold for patients who cannot self-evacuate and the building cannot close for the works.