Independent · London & the South East
Fire engineering and fire safety consultancy, for buildings that matter.
Clear answers about fire — strategy, assessment and assurance, from first drawings to full occupation, across London & the South East.
The premise
Fire safety has a reputation for noise — urgency, jargon and worst-case imagery. We work the other way: evidence, plainly stated.
Apex is an independent consultancy covering both sides of the discipline — the engineering that shapes a building, and the assessments that keep it honest in use. No installation arm. No remediation contracts. No second motive. Every report is written to be acted on, not filed.
About ApexServices
Two disciplines, one consultancy
Fire Engineering
Work that shapes a building before and during construction — strategies, statements, modelling and regulatory navigation. The output is a design everyone can stand behind: architect, approving authority, insurer and the people who will run the building.
Fire Safety
Work that keeps a standing building honest — assessments, surveys and audits that establish what is actually there, what condition it is in, and what to do about it, in plain order of priority.
One thread, whole life
Most consultancies pick a stage. We follow the building.
Design, construction, handover, occupation — the same questions asked at each stage, by people who understand the stage before and the one after.
Our approachWhere we work
Sectors
Residential & high-rise
Blocks of flats, HRBs, build-to-rent and social housing
Managing agents
Mixed residential and commercial portfolios, one compliance footing
Local authorities & public estates
Council housing, civic buildings and public-money scrutiny
Commercial & workplace
Offices, retail, logistics and hospitality
Education
Schools, universities and student accommodation
The benchmarks
What we work to
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Building Safety Act 2022
Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
PAS 9980:2022
BS 9999 / BS 9991
BS 7974
Approved Document B
Regulation 38