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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.

JWCS delivers Equal Egressibility Strategy reports combining quantitative pedestrian-movement calculation under BS 9992 Annex A (or equivalent NUMBAT-based methods), refuge area provisioning sized for worst-case PRM presence, escape route engineering through to the place of safety, and fire and rescue service intervention-facility design (firefighting shafts, fire lifts, breathing-apparatus stages, rendezvous points) co-ordinated with London Fire Brigade.

Sub-surface premises raise the practical engineering — vertical evacuation against gravity, primary and alternative evacuation routes engineered against the available built form, and reliance on emergency-services intervention for the final phase of any incident. Each factor is engineered against the asset, not assumed.

New-build engagements design equal egressibility in from concept. Accessibility-upgrade engagements retrofit existing infrastructure to a workable PRM provision. Outputs feed into the station fire strategy and any fire strategy addendum, the Congestion Control and Evacuation Plan (CCEP) per BS 9992, the S1088-route submission where derogation is required, and the operator’s evacuation procedure annex.

Typical deliverables

  • Equal Egressibility Strategy report
  • Refuge area design and provision schedule
  • Quantitative evacuation calculation
  • Fire and rescue service intervention-facility design (firefighting shafts, fire lifts, breathing-apparatus stages, rendezvous points)
  • PRM intervention plan and emergency-services liaison brief
  • Inputs to fire strategy / fire strategy addendum / CCEP / S1088 submission / operator evacuation procedure annex

Governing Framework

BS 9992:2020BS 9999:2017Equality Act 2010Infrastructure-owner PRM evacuation policyADB

Lifecycle stages

Engaged at GRIP 3-5 / Pathway 1-4 / RIBA 2 for new-build; engaged ad-hoc for retrofit, accessibility upgrades, and station capacity programmes.

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