Gateway 2 and 3, building safety cases, golden thread and Accountable Person duties — working as part of the wider stakeholder team to bring the fire safety information together, so you submit with confidence.
For higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Act regime stands or falls on the quality of the information: Gateway applications fail on gaps and inconsistencies, and safety cases unravel when the evidence doesn't join up.
Our role is to make the fire safety information coherent — consistent with the fire strategy, complete against the regulator's expectations, and genuinely reflective of the building.
We work as part of the wider stakeholder team — architects, principal designers, contractors, building safety managers — contributing the fire safety expertise and pulling the thread together.
The foundation is always the fire strategy; in occupation, the fire risk assessment keeps the safety case honest.
Gateway 2 is the building control approval stage for higher-risk buildings — construction can't start until the BSR approves the application. Applications commonly fail on incomplete or inconsistent fire safety information. We work as part of the wider stakeholder team to bring that information together coherently, so you submit with confidence.
Gateway 3 is the completion stage: before a higher-risk building can be registered and occupied, the BSR must be satisfied the building as built matches the approved design, with the evidence to prove it. We help compile that completion evidence — and can support strategies for safe partial and phased occupation.
A building safety case is the Principal Accountable Person's ongoing demonstration that building safety risks — fire spread and structural failure — are understood and being managed. We produce the fire safety elements of the safety case report and support its ongoing management.
The golden thread is the accurate, up-to-date record of building safety information that must be created during design and construction and maintained through occupation. We assemble it, structure it and keep it usable — including the fire and emergency file.
For occupied higher-risk buildings, the Accountable Person (usually the owner or the entity responsible for the structure and exterior) holds statutory building safety duties — from registration and safety case management to resident engagement and mandatory occurrence reporting. We support APs in discharging all of them.
Talk to us early — coherent submissions are built, not compiled at the last minute.