Rail stations compartmentation programme

Context

Rail stations accumulate decades of modifications: services punched through walls, doors replaced, fire-rated construction quietly compromised. Assessing compartmentation integrity across a portfolio of stations, while they remain fully operational, is as much a logistics problem as an engineering one.

My role

I was the fire safety engineer carrying out survey-based verification of fire compartmentation and reporting prioritised findings to the asset owner.

Approach

• Systematic site surveys of fire-rated construction, doors, and service penetrations.
• Assessment of compartmentation against the applicable performance requirements.
• Prioritised remediation recommendations proportionate to risk.
• Clear reporting formats an asset owner can act on across many sites.

Outcome

A portfolio-wide picture of compartmentation integrity, with remediation priorities the owner can schedule and budget.