V&A Museum, Dundee, Scotland

Client

V&A Dundee

Project overview

BB7 joined the V&A team in 2019 to provide a fire risk assessment of the full building on a 3 year rolling contract.  This included assessing the back of house, storage and staff areas, along with the galleries and exhibitions.  

As the exhibitions within the museum were changed and update, BB7 also carried out FRAs of the individual areas to ensure the risk to life safety, as well as property protection, was not influencing by the proposed installations.  This was particularly prudent for exhibitions, such as the ‘Plastic exhibition’, were the fire load was increasing.  

Project Scope

Our scope was to carry out the annual fire risk assessment for the full museum building along with carrying out individual fire risk assessments when the galleries changed exhibition. As we had familiarity with the building, we also provided fire safety design support when the exhibitions were being constructed.