Fire Evacuation & Escape Route Plans

An evacuation plan only works if the person reading it is standing in front of it, has never looked at it before, and is in a hurry. That puts the demands on the finished board rather than on the drawing: it has to be legible at a glance, mounted where people actually pass, and survive years on a wall without fading. That finished board is what we make.

The drawing itself comes from you. Most customers already have an approved layout, prepared by their fire safety consultant, their architect, or their own facilities team, and what they need is somebody to turn it into a durable board, in the right size, for every floor. Send us the file and we produce it. We do not redraw your plan or decide where the routes go.

If your plan has been prepared to SCDF requirements, send it exactly as approved and we will reproduce it faithfully, without redrawing or reinterpreting anything. Keeping the produced board identical to the approved drawing is the point, and it is the reason we work from your file rather than recreating it.

We accept PDF, DWG, AI and EPS. If all you have is a photograph of an existing board, or a marked-up print, send that instead. Our in-house graphic designers will set it up for production and return a proof before anything is printed. Older boards that have faded past legibility are a common reason customers come to us, and a photograph is usually enough to work from.

Acrylic and polycarbonate cover most interior locations: lift lobbies, corridors, stairwell landings. Polycarbonate is the tougher of the two where a board might be knocked. Aluminium and stainless steel suit plant rooms, car parks and external walls where damp, heat or handling would defeat plastic. Brass is chosen where the finish matters, usually in a lobby or a heritage building.

Sizes are set by the wall, not by us. A stairwell landing and a main lobby want different boards, and we produce to whatever dimensions the location allows rather than forcing a standard sheet. Frames, standoffs and adhesive mounting are all available depending on the surface: a painted plasterboard corridor, a tiled lift lobby and a bare concrete plant-room wall each want a different fixing, and getting that wrong is the usual reason a board ends up propped behind a door. Tell us what the wall is and we will supply the board ready to go up.

Assembly points are worth mentioning separately, because they sit outdoors and are almost always specified as an afterthought. A board that has been sized and printed for an air-conditioned lobby will not last a year in a car park or a loading bay. Where the plan calls for an external assembly point marker, we would normally produce that in aluminium rather than acrylic, from the same artwork as the indoor set so the wording and numbering agree.

Escape route and directional signs are produced from the same artwork at the same time, so the arrows on the wall point the way the board says they do. If you also need running-man exit pictograms, those are covered by our emergency exit and evacuation signs, and the chart that sits beside your fire alarm panel is a fire alarm zone chart, which is a different document for a different reader.

Send us the plan and the number of floors and we will quote against it. We have been producing signage and marking in Singapore since 1979, everything in our own workshop.