The Construction Leadership Council has published practitioner guidance setting out the behavioural principles that should be applied when developing, reviewing and auditing fire risk assessments (FRA) and fire risk appraisals of external walls (FRAEW).
The advisory note provides information for those directly and indirectly impacted by the undertaking these assessments and appraisals. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Authors
- Reviewers
- Auditors
- Commissioning parties
- Regulatory bodies
- Lenders, valuers and other parties relying upon the outputs
- Any identified stakeholder of the bodies listed above.
The guidance can be found here.
The British Standards Institution recently published a revised edition of the code of practice for FRAEW. PAS 9980: 2026 can be found here.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has also published FRAEW supporting guidance which aims to help non-technical users understand the appraisals of their external walls, what to consider when commissioning an FRAEW and how to interpret the report findings. The supporting guidance can be found here.
