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Fire Remediation Project Management
Findings are easy. Finished is the hard part.
What it is
Most fire safety failures are not missing knowledge; they are open actions nobody owned. We manage the journey from finding to closure: translating recommendations into scopes contractors can price, supporting procurement, tracking progress across sites, and verifying completed work — so the action plan shrinks instead of yellowing. The gap this service closes is organisational as much as technical. On a single building, an action plan can be run from a spreadsheet and goodwill; across a portfolio — several buildings, several contractors, and findings arriving from fire risk assessments, compartmentation surveys and door inspections at different times — the actions outnumber the attention available. Fire safety remediation project management puts one structure around all of it: every finding lands in a single register, gets an owner, a priority and a procurable scope, and stays visible until the evidence says it is done.
When you need it
- Risk assessment actions keep rolling over from year to year
- A portfolio-wide remediation programme needs coordination
- You lack in-house capacity to manage fire safety works
- Completed works need independent sign-off before actions close
What you receive
- Action plans converted into procurement-ready scopes
- Progress reporting across buildings and contractors
- Verification and close-out evidence for each completed action
How we do it
- Scoping: recommendations from assessments and surveys are translated into defined actions — what work, where, to what standard — so each one can be priced and owned rather than rolled over.
- Procurement support: scopes are issued to contractors, queries answered and quotations checked against the scope, so the responsible person is comparing like with like.
- Tracking: a single action register runs across buildings and contractors, with progress reported at agreed intervals and slippage flagged while there is still time to act on it.
- Verification and closure: completed work is checked against its scope — by inspection or evidence review as the action warrants — and closed out with records the next fire risk assessment can rely on.
What drives the cost
Cost depends on the number of open actions and buildings in the programme, the variety of work types involved (a portfolio of similar door repairs runs leaner than a mixed programme of fire-stopping, doorsets and system works), the number of contractors to coordinate, the reporting cycle agreed, and how much of the verification needs to happen on site rather than by evidence review. We scope each commission individually and provide a fixed fee before starting.
Common questions
Do you carry out the remediation works yourselves?
No — we neither carry out nor sell the works. Apex scopes, supports procurement, tracks and verifies, and the works themselves are delivered by contractors appointed by you. That separation is deliberate: a project manager with a stake in the works has a reason to expand them, and a verifier employed by the installer is marking their own work. Keeping oversight independent of delivery means the programme reflects what the findings require — and that closed means closed.
How do you track progress across a portfolio?
Through one register with one set of rules. Every finding — whichever assessment or survey it came from — is recorded with a consistent reference, priority, owner, target date and status, so a fire door defect in one block can be weighed against a compartmentation defect in another. Reporting then works at both levels: building-by-building detail for the people managing the work, and a portfolio summary for boards, clients or funders who need the trend, the exceptions and the evidence behind them.
What counts as a closed action?
Verified completion, not an invoice and not a contractor's say-so. An action closes when there is evidence that the work done matches the scope that was priced: an inspection where the work warrants one, or reviewed documentation — photographs, certificates, installation records — where it does not. That evidence is filed against the action's reference and retained, so the next fire risk assessment, an auditor or a regulator can see exactly what closed the action.
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