Pick Everard Salford fire remediation: façade and survey lessons for engineers
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Pick Everard has completed fire safety remediation on nine residential tower blocks in Salford for Together Housing Group, working with lead contractor Quaysquare Consult plus façade and fire specialists Buro Happold and Wintech. The programme focused on replacing non-compliant external wall systems and associated cavity barriers to meet current fire performance standards for multi-storey residential buildings. For engineers, the scheme signals continuing demand for multidisciplinary teams to assess legacy cladding, redesign façades and coordinate intrusive surveys, structural checks and phased resident access on occupied high-rise stock.
Technical Brief
- Pick Everard coordinated façade opening-up works with intrusive fire-stopping surveys to verify as-built cavity barrier continuity.
- Design reviews focused on external wall build-ups, junction details and fixing methods against current high-rise fire guidance.
- Collaboration with Buro Happold and Wintech centred on façade fire propagation, material reaction-to-fire and detailing risk.
- Structural checks were needed where cladding removal altered wind load paths, fixings, and localised concrete edge conditions.
- Temporary works and weatherproofing strategies were implemented to avoid exposing occupied flats during cladding strip-out.
- Quality assurance included systematic photographic records and sign-off of each elevation’s fire-stopping and cavity barrier installation.
- For similar legacy stock, the scheme underlines the need for multidisciplinary fire, façade and structural review teams.
Our Take
Pick Everard appears repeatedly in our infrastructure coverage, from the Waterfront East Park remediation (27 July 2026) to the Waterside Bridge scheme in Nottingham, signalling that its role on the Salford fire remediation sits within a growing portfolio of technically complex, risk-led public realm and housing projects.
Together Housing Group’s involvement in a failure-triggered remediation in Salford suggests that large housing associations are increasingly turning to multi-disciplinary teams like Pick Everard, Buro Happold and Wintech when navigating fire safety liabilities, which may raise the bar for due diligence and façade/fire engineering on future refurbishments.
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