Services
Fire engineering across the railway delivery lifecycle
JWCS operates across eight principal service lines, plus dedicated specialism in sub-surface and heritage station environments. Engagements are scoped flexibly — from one-off technical assessments to multi-stage assurance programmes.
Fire Strategy Design
The fire strategy is the single document the rest of the project is built on. JWCS authors strategies that bound design intent across the lifecycle — from the qualitative design review through to operational handover — for surface stations, sub-surface stations, substations, depots, and lineside structures.
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Fire Risk Assessment
Fire Risk Assessments for railway premises, heritage stations, substations, depots, mixed-tenancy estates, and temporary worksites. FRAEW delivered where external-wall construction is a material fire risk driver.
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Fire Engineering Assurance
Independent fire-engineering assurance across the full delivery lifecycle — from feasibility through to handover. Bespoke document generation, documentation hierarchy management, and field assurance.
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Fire Systems Consultancy
Consultancy and assurance across the fire-system families that make up a complete station provision — active and passive, materials compliance, integration, and commissioning. Engaged per system or across the full portfolio.
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Temporary Worksite Fire Safety & H&S Documentation
Fire safety planning for live operational worksites — temporary worksite concept design, surveying, fire strategy authorship, Authority-to-Use inspection and sign-off, review and assurance of contractor documentation, and construction fire interface for principal contractors working inside live railway infrastructure.
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Equal Egressibility & PRM Evacuation
Evacuation strategies for persons of restricted mobility — refuge design, escape route engineering, evacuation calculations, and London Fire Brigade intervention-plan co-ordination. Delivered for new-build, accessibility upgrades, and station capacity programmes.
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Technical & Peer Review
Independent third-party review of fire engineering documentation — fire strategies, design submissions, evacuation analyses, materials compliance, S1088 submissions, contractor handover packs, and legacy documentation under retrospective review. Discipline-specific review checklists, comment-register output ready for direct MCT input, and independent re-checking of quantitative work.
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Fire Safety Management & Competence Documentation
Asset-specific fire safety management and competence documentation under BS 9999, BS 9992 equivalent provisions, and RRO 2005 Article 21 — fire emergency plans, fire compliance plans, maintenance and inspection regimes & Responsible Person briefings. Built around the asset's fire safety provision.
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