Safety Case Report Support London for Higher-Risk Buildings

No. We provide technical building surveying and evidence support, not legal advice and not the legal safety case itself. Preparing and updating the safety case report remains the responsibility of the Principal Accountable Person. Each AP remains responsible for assessing and managing risks in its own part and supplying relevant evidence; competent fire engineering and legal input may also be required. Our role is to make the technical evidence behind it robust, organised and clearly attributed, and to identify clearly where legal or specialist input is required.

A safety case needs evidence that the building safety risks, principally fire spread and structural failure, are understood and managed. In practice that draws on as-built and design information, the fire strategy, FRAEW or external wall evidence, compartmentation and fire door evidence, structural information, maintenance and inspection records and the golden thread. The exact evidence depends on the building. We help establish what is required, what already exists and what is missing.

The Principal Accountable Person is responsible for preparing and maintaining the safety case report for an occupied higher-risk building, with input from competent professionals. Our support sits alongside that responsibility: we provide and organise the technical building evidence and gap analysis. We do not assume the dutyholder's statutory responsibility or warrant that a report is satisfactory.

Yes. Accountable Persons and Principal Accountable Persons are core clients, along with the managing agents and freeholders who act with them. We provide technical evidence, gap registers and survey coordination. APs use that work for their own parts and the PAP uses the relevant evidence to prepare and update the safety case report; statutory duties remain with the APs and PAP.

Yes. Identifying gaps in the golden thread is central to this service. We review the key building information, assess what is missing, inconsistent or out of date, and produce a gap register and a recommended route to close it. We do not operate the client's information systems or take over ongoing responsibility for maintaining the golden thread.

Yes. We coordinate the technical survey inputs a safety case relies on, including FRAEW or external wall appraisal, fire compartmentation, fire door and facade evidence, with competent specialists where required. The aim is one coherent, properly attributed evidence base rather than a set of disconnected reports.

Yes. External wall (FRAEW / PAS 9980), compartmentation, fire door and facade information all commonly feed into safety case evidence. We help scope which of these is actually needed for the building, coordinate the work and bring the findings together as structured building safety evidence.

It is primarily relevant to higher-risk residential buildings as defined under the Building Safety Act 2022, generally 18 metres or seven storeys and over with at least two residential units. Similar evidence reviews can also help complex residential portfolios and other multi-occupied buildings where building safety information needs to be brought into order.

No. We provide RICS regulated building surveying and evidence support. Legal advice, statutory fire risk assessment, fire engineering opinion and specialist certification are distinct roles requiring specific competence and insurance. Where an instruction needs them we identify that clearly, confirm scope and competence, and coordinate competent specialists rather than implying that input is covered.

Yes. We help clients get the technical evidence into order before engaging the Building Safety Regulator: a gap register, a golden thread evidence schedule and a prioritised survey route. The engagement itself, and the statutory duties around it, remain with the dutyholder, and we do not guarantee regulator acceptance, which is a matter for the regulator.

Yes. We review available information, identify gaps and help structure the key building information so it can be maintained as a golden thread for ongoing building safety management, alongside the dutyholder's own systems and responsibilities.