Term-time buildings with holiday windows, safeguarding duties and public procurement. Fire, M&E, air hygiene and fabric programmed around the academic calendar.
The buyer is a school business manager, an academy trust estates lead, a university estates department or a local authority, and their calendar is fixed by someone else. The summer break is the main window for the disruptive work; term time is for phased work that can live behind a hoarding and a method statement. Safeguarding sits over everything: who is on site, how they were screened, and where they are allowed to go.
Gemini AMPM has worked through live schools before. At Highgate Wood School in Haringey it sealed twenty-one fire-stopping locations through an occupied secondary school; at Helix Tower in Wembley it installed an evacuation alert system across twenty storeys and 600 student rooms, controlled only by the fire service. AMPM Building Services carries the plant, electrical and fabric programmes that fill a summer, and Clean Ducts keeps the catering extract and ventilation clean and certificated.
Fire detection and alarm to BS 5839-1, fire stopping and fire doors through occupied schools, evacuation alert to BS 8629 in student accommodation, fire risk assessments and priced remedial schedules. Certificated under NSI Gold, BAFE and FIRAS registrations held by Gemini AMPM Ltd.
Boiler and heat-pump replacement in the holidays, lighting and power upgrades, EICR and emergency lighting to a term-time calendar, planned maintenance to SFG20.
Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19 Grease in the breaks, ductwork and AHU hygiene to BESA TR19, fire damper testing with photographic reports.
Classroom, lab and library refurbishment in the summer, roofing, cladding and window programmes, external works and surfacing.
Gemini AMPM's engineers are CSCS-carded, photo-identified and screened to BS 7858, with DBS checks available on request; a site lead is named for every job. Summer programmes are sequenced so the disruptive trades finish before the ventilation is cleaned and the fire systems are recommissioned, and the handover pack lands before term starts, not after.
That is the normal shape of an education job. The survey and design happen in the spring term, long-lead plant is ordered early, and the site work runs from the last day of term to a handover before the first. Where a scope will not fit, the phased term-time element is agreed up front.
Gemini AMPM's engineers are screened to BS 7858 and DBS checks are available on request. Sites are run with named staff, photo ID and agreed access routes so the school's safeguarding lead knows who is where.
Yes. Gemini AMPM Ltd is registered on the Central Digital Platform used by Find a Tender and has bid on school, college and local-authority maintenance contracts. Tender packs go to bids@ampm.co.uk.
Halls of 18 metres or more, or seven storeys or more, are higher-risk buildings under the Building Safety Act, and evacuation alert systems to BS 8629 are part of the answer. Gemini AMPM Ltd holds NSI Gold under BAFE SP207 for exactly that work; Helix Tower is the reference.
Call 0330 043 0080, day or night, or book a site survey. The work is delivered by Gemini AMPM Ltd, AMPM Building Services and Clean Ducts.