Safe QLD delivers complete fire services packages on new builds, major upgrades and staged works across South East Queensland. Sprinklers, fire pumps and water storage, hydrants, detection and EWIS, engineered, drafted, installed, programmed, commissioned and certified by one in-house team, then rolled straight onto a maintenance contract.
With over 60 years of combined experience, Safe QLD has been a main part of fire protection compliance throughout South East Queensland. With a complete in-house team of industry experts and technicians we are able to design, install, certify and maintain your fire protection assets as required. That means one contractor holds the sprinkler, pump, hydrant, detection and occupant warning scope from tender through to defects liability, and the same contractor is still there five years later servicing what it built.
Most fire packages fail on the seams, between the consultant's documentation and the installer, between the installer and the commissioning agent, between practical completion and the maintenance contractor. Safe QLD removes those seams. Our engineers, drafters, project managers, installation technicians and service crews sit under one roof at Capalaba, so a query raised on site on a Tuesday gets answered by the person who drew it, not by a subcontractor's subcontractor.
AS 2118 Sprinklers AS 2419 Hydrants AS 2441 Hose Reels AS 2304 Water Storage AS 1670.1 Detection AS 1670.4 EWIS AS 2293 Emergency Lighting AS 1851-2012 NCC/BCA Form 12 / Form 15
Bespoke system design worked up from architectural, hydraulic and services drawings, using advanced design software and industry best practice to meet the NCC/BCA and the relevant Australian Standards.
Precision CAD drafting of layouts, shop drawings and job plans that other trades can actually build around, plus the staging plan that keeps the program on schedule.
Dedicated project managers and senior technicians run the works with regular progress reporting, ITPs, hold points and proactive issue resolution against your construction program.
QBCC licensed installation crews and in-house specialist electrical contractors deliver pipework, pumpsets, tanks, detection, EWIS and panel programming to the drawings and the standard.
Full function testing, flow and pressure verification, cause and effect proving and witness testing with your certifier and consultant, all documented as it happens.
The completed building rolls straight onto a tailored AS 1851-2012 program, so defects liability and routine servicing are covered by the team that commissioned the system.
Some projects arrive with a fully documented hydraulic and fire services package and need a contractor who can build it without drama. Others arrive as architectural drawings and a performance brief, and need someone to work the fire services design up from scratch. Safe QLD does both, and the deliverables are the same either way: coordinated drawings, a clear scope, and no assumptions left buried in a specification.
Where a project calls for an RPEQ signature, a fire engineered performance solution or certified hydraulic calculations, we coordinate directly with your consulting engineer, fire engineer and building certifier. Safe QLD builds, commissions and certifies its own installation work, we do not hold ourselves out as the RPEQ certifier of the design.
Whether pumped or un-pumped, Safe QLD has the equipment and expertise required to install and service sprinkler systems, hose reels, hydrants and water tanks. With a fleet of service and installation technicians we can cater to your needs, from a single stage tenancy extension to a full wet fire package on a new build.
Detection is where a fire package usually gets complicated, because it has to speak to every other system in the building. Our QBCC licensed technicians and in-house specialist electrical contractors install, program and commission the panel, the field devices and every interface hanging off them.
A structured delivery sequence that keeps your program, your certifier and your client in the loop at every stage, whether the job is a greenfield build or a live upgrade in an occupied building.
We review the architectural, hydraulic and fire services documentation, interrogate the specification, flag gaps and assumptions in writing, and price a scope you can actually hold us to. No provisional sums hiding a design problem.
Our engineers develop the system design against the NCC/BCA and the relevant Australian Standards, coordinate with your consultant and fire engineer, and resolve the performance requirements before anything is fabricated.
CAD drafting produces coordinated shop drawings for approval by the consultant and certifier, with clash resolution against mechanical, electrical and structural services. Long lead items such as pumpsets and tanks are procured off approved drawings.
Project managers set the installation program, ITPs, hold points and access requirements. On occupied sites we agree isolations, permits, interim protection measures and out of hours windows before a tool comes out of the truck.
Licensed crews install pipework, pumpsets, tanks, detection, EWIS and associated electrical works to the approved drawings, with progressive QA sign-off, photographic records and Aspect certification issued as the works proceed.
Full function commissioning of every system and interface, flow and pressure verification, cause and effect proving, and formal witness testing attended by your certifier, consultant and client representatives.
Form 12 certification of the completed installation, as-built drawings, block plans, device and panel schedules, commissioning records and operation and maintenance manuals, issued as one handover pack rather than dribbled out after PC.
Through defects liability we respond under the same 24/7 arrangement as our contract clients, then the building transitions onto a tailored AS 1851-2012 maintenance program with its asset register already populated.
Queensland fire protection work lives or dies on its documentation. Here is exactly what comes off a Safe QLD project and where the boundaries sit between our QBCC licensed scope and your certifier and consulting engineers.
| Deliverable | What it covers | Who relies on it | Safe QLD's role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shop drawings, issued for construction | Coordinated sprinkler, hydrant, pump, tank, detection and EWIS layouts built off the consultant's documentation | Builder, consultant, other services trades | Drafted in-house and issued for consultant and certifier approval |
| Form 15 compliance certificate, design | Certifies that a building design or specification complies with the applicable provisions | Building certifier | Coordinated with the competent design person or consulting engineer holding the design |
| Form 12 aspect certificate | Certifies a nominated aspect of building work by a competent person | Building certifier | Coordinated for our scope of works alongside the certifier's inspection regime |
| Form 15 | Aspect certificate for fire protection work carried out during the installation | Building certifier, principal contractor | Issued by Safe QLD as QBCC licensee no. 1143420 for the work we install |
| QBCC Form 12 | Certification of the completed fire protection installation | Building certifier, building owner | Issued by Safe QLD on completion and commissioning of our installation |
| Commissioning and witness test records | Full function tests, flow and pressure results, cause and effect proving, interface testing | Certifier, consultant, client representative, facility manager | Run, witnessed and documented by our commissioning technicians |
| As-built drawings and block plans | Final installed configuration, zone and device schedules, panel arrangement, brigade block plan | Building owner, facility manager, attending fire crews | Redlined through the build and issued as part of the handover pack |
| O&M manuals and asset register | Equipment data, operating instructions, spares and the opening AS 1851-2012 baseline | Building owner, incoming maintenance contractor | Compiled at handover and loaded straight into the maintenance program |
Very few of our major works happen on an empty site. Hospital wards keep admitting patients, cold storage keeps running at temperature, self storage keeps letting tenants through the roller doors and apartment residents keep coming home. Our project managers plan the works around that reality rather than fighting it.
That approach comes from the work we already do: Queensland Health Metro South facilities, a regional hospital ward upgrade, a private day surgery, a Queensland Health cold storage hub, a food distribution centre at Logan, a seafood processing facility on the Gold Coast, childcare and education campuses, self storage complexes, marina and engine bay suppression, and residential buildings including Parkside Apartments in Brisbane.
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