Residential & build-to-rent
The only fully managed, apartment-specific wayfinding service: from your floorplans to a certified, installed wayfinding system.
In short
A residential wayfinding specialist plans, designs and installs the whole signage system for an apartment scheme: block identifiers, apartment numbering, floor and flat identification, lift lobby directories, car parks and fire egress. We work from your floorplans and fire drawings, sign off the certificates ourselves, and charge one fixed price per apartment.
Apartment numbering, floor IDs, lift lobbies, block identifiers, car parks and fire egress, designed to suit your layout, your fire cert and the people who live there.
One fixed price per apartment, covering design, manufacture, installation and certification. Certificates are signed off by us, and the scheme carries a 10-year warranty. No hidden extras.
01The challenge
On most residential jobs the signs go to whoever prices the schedule lowest, late in the programme. Then the numbering doesn't match the lift buttons, the stair says one thing and the lobby another, and somebody discovers in snagging that apartment wayfinding was a design problem all along.
Marked-up PDFs go back and forth between architect, client and supplier for months. By the time the schedule is approved there's no float left, and installation gets squeezed into the last fortnight before handover, which is exactly when you can least afford a missing floor sign.
Escape signage under TGD B or Approved Document B, contrast and tactile provision under Part M and BS 8300, and, on UK blocks over 11 metres, floor identification and flat indicator signs to a prescriptive specification. Each is simple on its own. Getting all of them right on the same plate, at the same height, in every core, is where specifications fall down.
Blocks completed years apart have to arrive at the same system. Without one schedule held from the first phase, a resident in phase three gets a different typeface, a different numbering logic and a different idea of where Floor 0 is.
A designer, a fabricator, an installer and somebody else for the certificates. Every handoff is a chance for the drawing and the building to disagree, and the main contractor is the one left chasing all four.
02What we deliver
Design, project management and installation by our own teams, with one accountable supplier from first drawings to the signed certificate.
Apartment numbering, floor identification, lift lobbies, block identifiers, car parks and amenity naming, worked out as one hierarchy before anything is drawn. Built around your layout, your fire cert and the people who'll live there.
Send us the floorplans and fire drawings. No site visit is needed to start unless you want one. Our platform lays the scheme out from the drawings, so several hundred units are signed consistently rather than sign by sign, and BIM export puts the package into the federated model.
Everyone reviews one live schedule and approves sign by sign, with comments attached to the sign they're about. Packages average 1.8 design rounds to approval, and status shows up in the construction management system your site team already uses.
Escape routes, fire equipment and safety signs designed from your fire cert, alongside the wayfinding, by the same team on the same plans. On UK blocks over 11 metres that includes floor identification and flat indicator signs to Approved Document B. Evacuation plans can be added to the same package.
Our installers fit every sign at the correct height and location, to your site schedule. We sign off the certificates ourselves, so the compliance evidence is complete at handover. Solid stove-enamelled aluminium, backed by a 10-year warranty.
Design, manufacture, installation and certification are covered by a single price per apartment, agreed before we start. You know the number at tender. One supplier from design to install typically saves up to 20% against fragmented procurement.
03How we work
Approvals cut from months to days. The same five stages on every project, so nothing falls between packages.
A wayfinding system and sign family designed to work with your architecture and identity.
Numbering, floor IDs, lift lobbies, car parks and egress, built for how people navigate.
Designed to the strictest accessibility and legislative criteria. Certified on completion.
Stove-enamelled aluminium and other long-life materials, made to spec or above it.
Our own fitting teams, working to complex construction schedules.
04Standards
The standards and regulations this work is designed to. Compliance is the baseline, not an upsell.
05Proof
Brochure · 8 pages
Apartment wayfinding from your floorplans to certified, installed signage, at one fixed price per apartment. For contractors, developers and BTR operators.
An apartment building needs escape-route, fire-door and fire-equipment signage, accessible signage, and the identification signage residents and visitors rely on: block identifiers, apartment numbering, floor identification and lift lobby directories. In Ireland the fire signage answers to TGD B and the accessible signage to Part M and BS 8300. In England, blocks with a top storey over 11 metres also need floor identification and flat indicator signs to Approved Document B.
It means any block of flats in England whose top storey is more than 11 metres above ground should have floor identification and flat indicator signs designed to Approved Document B. That covers new blocks and material alterations. Separately, existing buildings of 18 metres or seven storeys must carry the same signage under regulation 8 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. Irish blocks aren't bound by either, but many developers working in both markets adopt the Approved Document B specification anyway.
We agree one price per apartment before we start, and it covers design, manufacture, installation and certification. You send floorplans and fire drawings, we come back with the schedule, the programme and the price. There are no extras for the parts of the package people usually forget, such as car parks, block identifiers or statutory signs.
No, we design and quote from your floorplans and fire drawings, and only visit before starting if you ask us to. Our installers are on site for the fit, working to your programme.
We do. The certificates for the signage package are signed off by Wayfinders, so the main contractor isn't chasing a separate party for compliance evidence at handover.
Days rather than months, in most cases. The whole team reviews one live schedule and approves sign by sign, so nothing is redrawn between rounds. Across our projects, packages average 1.8 design rounds to approval.
Yes, alongside for-sale apartment schemes, including Hatch student accommodation for John Paul Construction. Both are harder briefs than a for-sale block. Build-to-rent residents turn over every year or two and the operator's brand is on the door; a student building empties and refills every September. So we specify materials with the replacement in mind.
Yes, and on a large scheme it has to. We write the destination schedule for the finished development and release it phase by phase, as we're doing at Glass Bottle in Dublin with John Sisk & Son, so blocks completed years apart still read as one place.
07Insights
Cores, levels and flat numbers, statutory fire wayfinding, and the handover pack. How apartment signage is planned, specified and made to survive occupation.
The UK's wayfinding signage regulations turn on two numbers: 11 and 18 metres. What they require, from sizes to heights to wording, and where they get missed.
In build-to-rent the building is the product, and the signage is part of it. What changes when the landlord never leaves the asset.
Purpose-built student housing empties and refills every September, and takes a decade of ordinary wear in about three years. What the signage has to survive.
What Technical Guidance Document B actually asks of fire safety signage: escape routes, exit signs, fire doors, assembly points, and who carries the duty.
The framed escape plan is the one drawing nobody studies until the alarm goes. What the standard asks of it, and how to keep it true as the building changes.
Residential & build-to-rent
Approvals cut from months to days, typically around 20% off the wayfinding package, and one supplier from design to installation.
