Ringley Group are the UKs number one advisory firm for cladding issues, the Building Safety Fund and all matters of Fire Safety

For all things fire safety such as façade cladding, issues with the external wall system, if you are not sure if your block of flats needs an EWS1 Survey or how to go about the improvements necessary to improve the EWS1 Certificate rating, then our EWS1 Consultancy advice may help.

Ringley act as the go to commentator on all things fire safety. Jon Curtis (Head of Building Engineering), advises The Daily Telegraph and regional BBC radio, and regularly presents to the RICS, UK Apartment Association and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (formerly Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government). Due to our in house expertise, Ringley were among the first to complete all their EWS1s in Spring 2020 and lodge grant applications throughout 2020 for the Government £1b remediation fund.

From necessary remediation of balcony structures and finishes, to fire stopping around openings to compartmentation and grant applications under the Building Safety Fund in England or the Building Passport Fund in Wales, our expert team are here to help, with the sheer scale of the UK cladding crisis.

ESSENTIAL - Adapt your build handover strategy

What has changed?

We are now in an era of evidence based testing not desktop assessment. This means that as a developer keeping evidence of materials relating to the external wall system (EWS) as they arrive on site, as they are installed is crucial. No matter what contractor certification, QA system or build guarantee is in place no competent Managing Agent can avoid invasive testing at first, to prove what has been constructed.

Fire Risk Assessment needs to be a Type 2 Survey.