Essential services are the crucial safety systems that provide fire, evacuation, emergency and exit control and protection for your building and its inhabitants. We can install, maintain and repair your essential services systems to the highest quality, and ensure compliance with important regulations.
Services Include:
Fire Control Panels
A signal from a detector is relayed to a fire control panel, which then activates a range of appropriate responses.
Emergency Lighting
Emergency lighting is required to safeguard occupants from injury, by providing sufficient lighting to allow safe occupant evacuation in an emergency.
Fire Detectors & Alarm Systems
A fire detection and alarm system is installed to sense and provide warning of a fire in its initial development stage. Proper operation of this system will afford the building occupants the maximum amount of time available to seek safe refuge.
Smoke Alarms
Smoke alarms detect and provide an early warning of the presence of fire. This early warning is designed to provide as much time as possible to alert occupants of this threat. These include both thermal and smoke activated alarms.
Exit Signs
Exit signs are required to allow safe occupant evacuation in an emergency
Fire Doors
A fire door maintains the fire resistance rating of a firewall. A fire door must be self-closing or close automatically on the operation of an approved sensing device or on the loss of power supply.
Sprinkler Systems
A sprinkler system provides a full-time automatic fire suppression system, with the ability to summon the fire brigade automatically.
Pumps
Pumps are required to ensure the reliability of fire protection equipment that requires a supply of water.
Static Water Supply
A static water supply is required to provide a water supply to an automatic sprinkler or a fire hydrant system
Fire Mains
A fire hydrant system provides fire-fighting personnel with a supply of water for fire-fighting purposes.
Hydrants & Hose Reels
Hose reels are provided to enable occupants to undertake initial fire extinguishment.
Extinguishers
Portable fire extinguishers provide occupants with an appliance with which to attack a fire in its initial stages.
Exit Doors
Exit doors provide sufficient and safe egress from a building, with a minimum of effort and delay and act to present a minimum of obstruction in an exit path.
Building Fabric and Structure
This category includes services, such as: isolated passageways, ramps and stairs, use of fire curtains and fire protective coverings, and vehicular access to a building.