The Building Owner should engage the FSE on the onset of building project involving performance-based works, at the conceptual design stage, and not as a remedial solution to resolve deadlocks in the approval process.

The Building Owner is to engage the Peer Reviewer only after the FSE has completed his Fire Safety Engineering Report (FSER), detailed specifications and drawings, Building Operations and Maintenance manual (O&M). It is important that the Peer Reviewer does not participate or interfere with the design process prior to this stage. The Peer Reviewer will make his comments in his Peer Reviewer's Report. In the event that the Peer Reviewer has disagreeable comments on the documents reviewed, the FSE and the Peer Reviewer will need to discuss objectively to resolve the outstanding issues.

The Project QP is responsible to submit all the mentioned documents to SCDF for final plan approval.

The Building Owner will need to engage an RI who is an FSE to inspect the performance-based aspects of the project. The RI may also inspect prescriptive aspects related to his professional discipline. E.g. A RI(M&E) who is also an FSE can inspect works relating to the performance-based solution for both building plan and M&E aspects as well as the prescriptive M&E works. The owner will still need to engage an RI(Architectural) for inspection of building works constructed based on prescriptive requirements.

This information is sourced from SCDF