Designing fire-safe buildings is about more than ticking compliance boxes, it’s about enabling architects to innovate, engineers to optimise, and occupants to stay safe. At FDS Consult UK, we bring deep fire engineering insight to the design table, helping turn concept into construction with performance, efficiency, and safety in balance.
This service overview explains our fire-engineered solutions and how they support safer, compliant, and future-ready buildings across the UK.
What Are Fire Design Solutions?
Fire design solutions refer to engineered approaches that deliver compliant fire safety while unlocking design potential.
Rather than simply following prescriptive codes, we apply:
- Performance-based design frameworks (BS 7974)
Fire modelling (CFD, egress, heat) - Façade and compartmentation analysis
- Custom smoke control and evacuation strategies
The result: bespoke fire safety that supports rather than restricts architectural ambition.
Key Elements of Our Fire Engineered Approach
Fire Strategy Development: Technical documentation aligned with Building Regulations, tailored to layout, occupancy, and risk.
Smoke Ventilation Design: Natural and mechanical smoke ventilation systems designed to BS EN 12101 or bespoke criteria using CFD modelling.
CFD Modelling: Simulates smoke spread, heat transfer, and tenability under fire conditions to validate complex designs.
Evacuation Modelling: Pathfinder and Simulex tools model crowd dynamics and egress time under different fire scenarios.
Façade Fire Spread Assessment: Thermal radiation modelling for external cladding and vertical fire spread control.
Gateway Documentation: Support across Gateway One, Two, and Three with fire statements, strategy updates, and as-built reporting.
Sectors We Support
- Residential towers and mixed-use developments
- Healthcare and education (hospitals, universities)
- Retail centres, business parks, and high-footfall spaces
- Infrastructure, airports, and logistics hubs
Why Choose FDS Consult UK?
- Full-spectrum consultancy: strategy, modelling, design, review
- Chartered fire engineers and senior consultants on every project
- Trusted by architects, developers, contractors, and authorities
- Fast, responsive reporting aligned to regulatory timelines
Fire Safe Building FAQs
Q: Do you offer design and install services?
We are a fire engineering consultancy—independent and focused on fire engineering principles. However, our sister company, FDS Contracting offers smoke ventilation design, supply, install and commissioning.
Q: Can you help recover a stalled Gateway submission?
Yes—we provide peer review, strategy strengthening, and regulator liaison.
Q: What software do you use?
PyroSim (FDS), Pathfinder, AutoCAD, Revit, and specialist vent design tools.
Fire Safe Buildings
The safest, most efficient buildings start with expert fire engineered solutions. Whether you’re planning an ambitious new development or optimising an existing one, our consultancy ensures fire safety is fully integrated and future-proof.
Speak to our fire engineering consultants or request a proposal for your next project.
