Fire Compartmentation Surveys Birmingham
Fire compartmentation surveys in Birmingham show exactly where your building’s fire barriers have failed, before it becomes a compliance notice or an insurance dispute. Blue Chip PFP works from Fort Dunlop, so getting a FIRAS-certified surveyor on site rarely takes long.
If you’re the responsible person for a building in Birmingham, this survey tells you where you actually stand, not where you assumed.
- Fast Turnaround: Efficient PFP Delivery
We deliver surveys and installations quickly and efficiently, keeping your project on schedule without compromising safety.
- Trusted Specialists: FIRAS Certified
Our accredited team brings proven expertise in passive fire protection, giving you complete confidence in compliance.
- Safety First
Every solution is designed to protect lives and property, ensuring long-term security and peace of mind.
Birmingham’s building stock splits into two camps. New commercial space at Paradise and Smithfield is going up fast, built and signed off to current standards. The older blocks in Selly Oak, Northfield and Erdington, still full of people, are a different story.
Compartmentation fails quietly in that older stock. A contractor runs cabling through a fire-rated wall during a refit and doesn’t reinstate it properly. A penetration gets patched with the wrong material, or not patched at all, and none of it shows up on a routine walk-through.
Building control sign-off rarely involves opening up a wall to check what’s actually behind it. That’s the gap. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s yours to close, whether you knew about it or not.
A full compartmentation survey covers every wall, floor and ceiling that’s meant to hold a fire back, along with every service penetration that runs through them. Our Birmingham passive fire protection team inspects each one, flags anything that’s failed, and hands you a certified report with clear remedial guidance attached.
Every breach gets logged, photographed and marked on annotated drawings, so your maintenance team or contractor knows exactly where to go and what needs fixing.
Coverage runs across Birmingham and out into the wider West Midlands, all delivered from our Fort Dunlop base.
- Site visit and inspection. A FIRAS-certified surveyor walks the building using electronic data capture, checking every compartment wall, floor, ceiling and penetration against current standards.
- Breach identification. Anything that fails gets photographed and logged on the spot, with its exact location marked on annotated drawings.
- Certified report. You receive a full report setting out what was found and what needs doing about it, in plain terms your maintenance team or contractor can act on.
- Remediation, if you want it. The same accredited team that carried out the survey can fix what they found, without handing the job to someone else and hoping they read the report properly.
Anyone can call themselves a fire protection specialist. FIRAS accreditation means something different: it’s UKAS-accredited, independently verified, and every surveyor on our team holds it, not just the company as a whole.
We’re based at Fort Dunlop, which keeps turnaround fast across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. Add ISO 9001 and Constructionline Gold to the FIRAS accreditation, and you’ve got a paper trail that holds up if anyone questions it: insurer, auditor, or the Building Safety Regulator.
“We have worked with Blue Chip PFP on several projects and have consistently found them to be professional, reliable, and highly accommodating,” says one client. “The quality of their workmanship has been excellent, with attention to detail and compliance evident in all aspects of their work. We would have no hesitation in recommending them to other organisations seeking a competent and dependable passive fire protection provider.”
– Sarah Maulin – Compliance Coordinator at Arches Housing
Our surveyors work on the kind of buildings where getting compartmentation wrong isn’t an option: university and hospital estates around Edgbaston, residential and student blocks in Selly Oak and Northfield, commercial fit-outs on Birmingham’s regeneration schemes.
Got questions? We’ve put together some of the most common ones below to help you find the answers quickly and easily.
Whether you’re curious about how things work, what to expect, or just want a bit more detail, our FAQs are a great place to start. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, feel free to reach out to us directly.
Hasn't my building already been checked by building control?
Not in the way you might think. Building control sign-off confirms the building met regulations when it was completed or last altered, not that every compartment wall and penetration still holds up now. A compartmentation survey is the only way to verify what's behind the walls.
How much does a compartmentation survey cost?
It depends on the size of the building and how many compartments need inspecting. Get in touch with your building's details, and we'll give you a clear quote before any work starts.
How long does a survey take on an occupied site?
Most surveys are scheduled to work around your building's normal use, so disruption stays minimal. Timescales depend on the site's size and layout, but we'll give you a clear estimate before we start.
Do you cover the wider West Midlands, including Wolverhampton and Solihull?
Yes. We're based at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham and cover the full West Midlands region, including Wolverhampton, Solihull, Dudley and Coventry.
What happens if breaches are found?
You'll get a full report with clear remedial guidance. If you want us to carry out the fix, the same accredited team that surveyed your building can handle the remediation directly.
We cover Birmingham city centre, Edgbaston, Selly Oak, Erdington and Sutton Coldfield, along with Longbridge, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Coventry. If your building’s outside these areas, get in touch anyway. There’s a good chance we still cover it.
- Telephone: 0800 781 2652
- Email: info@bluechippfp.co.uk
- Address: Fort Dunlop, Dunlop Parkway, Birmingham, West Midlands, B24 9FE (Appointment Only)
Monday – Friday
9:00am – 5:00pm