[0762]

A senior fire officer would generally never be near the formal conclusion of any type of building contract. References to fire safety and enhanced fire safety are in the hands of the various project officials and formal signing off of said project would indeed be in the hands of 'The Client', in this case the Council, and prob in the hands of a competent senior building control officer(s) or similar who should have read the full contract documents, the specifications, the materials used and their spec, the conditions of contract, clauses, non performance rebates and penalties etc etc. IMO the impartial scrutineer should normally be the Clerk of Works who I used to nickname 'the sniffer' in a respectful manner!! IMO these guys are invaluable when used properly as previously described.