Panel Check

Panel Check is a specialist risk management consultancy with over thirty years of combined experience in designing, specifying and installing composite insulated panel systems, turning an unknown quantity of panel on a client’s site into a documented, understood asset that insurers, facilities managers and duty holders can act on with confidence.

Their client base spans the sectors where composite insulated panels are most heavily relied on and most exposed to fire risk — food production and storage facilities, cold storage and logistics operations, industrial units, and motor trade sites carrying out paint spraying and hot works. Across each of these, the story is consistent: panels installed years or decades ago, with no reliable record of core material, construction or condition, leaving operators unable to answer the questions their insurers are now asking.

At the centre of the Panel Check offer is a methodical, field-tested survey process rather than guesswork or generic advice. Surveyors identify panel types on site, cross-reference construction against known good and non-approved cores; distinguishing combustible options such as EPS, XPS and PUR from LPS 1181/1208-approved PIR and mineral wool – and assess the condition of what’s already installed, so clients and their insurers are working from evidence, not estimation.

Panel Check provides a complete service around composite panel risk, from first inspection through to remedial works. This includes on-site panel identification and documentation, detailed construction analysis, condition assessment of existing installations, and verification against recognised fire performance standards including LPS 1181 and FM Approvals. Where a survey identifies panels that fall short on type, fire rating or condition, their team can design, schedule, procure and oversee the replacement programme through to completion.

The Panel Check process is straightforward and evidence-led. It starts with a site survey and initial panel identification, moves into construction and condition analysis where further certainty is needed, and proceeds to a clear report setting out panel types, fire performance and any areas of concern. Where replacement or upgrade is recommended, Panel Check carries that through design, procurement and project oversight, keeping disruption to live operations to a minimum.

Whether it’s a single-site survey or an estate-wide risk programme, Panel Check approaches each project with the same systematic rigour, giving operators a credible, evidenced answer to both the cost of insurance and the risk of a catastrophic fire.