Sectors
Our unique skills have continued to be recognised and we not only wrote the fire safety original code for prisons but have recently been appointed to update it and also write the code for custodial suites in police stations.
Fire Safety Design for Prisons, Detention Centres and Custodial Suites
Trenton Fire have worked closely with the Home Office and Ministry of Justice for a number of years and have an engineer embedded with them to provide fire safety advice for their estates department.
This has resulted in us writing the Fire Safety Design Standard for Custodial Property under contract to the Ministry of Justice which we have just reviewed in light of recent developments. We are also drafting guidance for custodial suites in Police Stations and Magistrates Courts. In addition to these we have also written:
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office Fire Safety Code (2007)
- Fire Precautions During Works on the Government Estate (2000)
- Crown Fire Standards (1997)
- PACE Fire Safety Guide (1997)
Our major projects over the last 18 months involving Police custodial suites, Prisons and Detention Centres include:
- HMP Littlehey
- HMP Coltishall
- HMP Parc
- HMP Manchester
- HMP Lincoln
- HMP Brixton
- HMP Kingston
- HMP Pentonville
- HMP Kirklevington
- HMP Featherstone
- HMP Brixton Healthcare
- HMP Rochester Segregation unit
- HMP Stocken
- Parc Prison
- Glen Parva YJB
- Croydon Police Custody Centre
- Avon and Somerset Police PFI Projects
We were also involved in the design of a large Irish prison called Thornton Hall.
One of our engineers, Keith Turner, has significant experience in the regulatory side of the Ministry of Justice having been involved as an Assistant Inspector of Fire Services attached to the Crown Premises Inspection Group. Keith was charged with enforcement of fire regulations in respect of Crown owned or occupied premises and from 2005 to 2007 was responsible for developing the Crown Premises Inspection Group involvement in Prisons and Immigration centres.
Andrew Forecast, MSc, BSc, MIFireE, a Senior Fire Engineer at Trenton Fire, has been involved in virtually all our prison projects over the last three years. As such he has excellent experience and knowledge of the custodial property guides and the fire engineering opportunities available. Andrew also has a strong background in fire testing so can advise with expertise on the fire resistance of existing structure or materials that may be proposed. This will bring a great deal of value to the Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) process.
