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Fire Engineering
Retail
Buro Happold
Fire-engineering solutions provide clients with flexible and cost effective responses to the everchanging
demands of the retail market. This applies to the development of major retail centres
throughout the world but also to individual units where tenants need design flexibility.
Buro Happold Fire Engineering have retail experience
throughout the world.
Our approach of integrating fire safety with the
architectural and other engineering disciplines creates
the best opportunity to support innovative architectural
solutions, deliver best value and provide focussed,
efficient fire protection measures in retail centres.
We have wide experience of retail projects, ranging from
large multiple tenant malls, through to stand alone units
for high street retail chains.
The key fire safety issues are typically means of escape,
compartmentation and smoke control. We combine
these into an overall strategy, always reflecting the
commercial needs to maximise floor space efficiency
and visual clarity of the space.
Prescriptive codes do not address the commercial aspect
of retail design, and hence a fire engineering approach
to potentially reduce exit requirements and visually
intrusive compartmentation can provide significant
benefits. Our team of fire engineers have experience of
using the most up to date fire engineering techniques to
provide not only a safe design, but one that reflects the
clients commercial aspirations.
Case Study : Sainsburys
Image: Edward Farrow/Buro Happold
We have provided fire engineering services for
Sainsburys for several years, for many projects.
These have included major new stores where fire
engineering of egress provisions has improved
the usable floor space. Refurbishment projects
and multiple use projects are increasingly
common, where our innovative approach ensures
operational requirements and a consistently high
level of life safety are provided in all stores.
Audi Headquarters, Glasgow, UK
Architect: SDA Jackson Calvert
Barwa Al Doha, Doha
Architect: RTKL
Image: RTKL
Marks and Spencer, London, UK
Architect: MOM Architecture
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