Tall residential blocks, social housing, assisted living and student halls, under the Building Safety Act and its accountable persons. Fire, evacuation alert, fabric remediation and landlord services, delivered with residents in occupation.
The buyer is an accountable person or principal accountable person under the Building Safety Act, a housing association, a managing agent, a resident management company or a developer with a safety case to build. The building is occupied for the whole programme, the regulator expects a golden thread, and the cost of getting it wrong is measured in waking-watch invoices and stalled sales.
Gemini AMPM's record here is public. At the Unity Building in Liverpool, 26 storeys and 161 apartments, it designed and installed a Hyfire Taurus wireless fire alarm, more than a thousand devices in four weeks, and FirstPort stood down the waking watch. At Helix Tower in Wembley it installed an evacuation alert system to BS 8629 across twenty storeys. At St Giles Crescent in Maldon it compartmented the roof spaces of four occupied social-housing blocks, and at Longfield Court in Whitstable it compartmented the loft voids, sealed the penetrations and extended the detection of an assisted-living scheme for Canterbury City Council with every resident at home.
Fire detection to BS 5839-1 and BS 5839-6, evacuation alert to BS 8629 under BAFE SP207, wireless systems that replace a waking watch, fire doors, loft and riser compartmentation, fire stopping and fire risk assessments. Certificated under NSI Gold, BAFE and FIRAS registrations held by Gemini AMPM Ltd.
Landlord electrical services and EICR, emergency lighting to BS 5266, communal heating and hot water, planned maintenance to SFG20.
Smoke extract and AOV maintenance, fire damper testing in service risers, communal ventilation and ductwork hygiene in social housing.
Cladding and external-wall remediation with PAS 9980 follow-through, external wall insulation and render, roofing, communal-area refurbishment and golden-thread records.
A resident liaison officer is appointed on occupied residential work, and the site lead is the person residents can find. Work is phased flat by flat or riser by riser, communal areas are left clean at the end of each day, and progress meetings keep the client and its contract administrator ahead of every phase. At Longfield Court the council's independent living manager wrote to say the tenants' feedback had been excellent, and the contract administrator scored the project excellent in every category of its formal reference.
Under the Building Safety Act, a building in England that is at least 18 metres tall or has at least seven storeys and contains at least two residential units; hospitals and care homes of that height are in scope during design and construction. Its accountable person must register it, maintain a safety case and keep the golden thread of information current.
Different things. A fire alarm warns occupants; an evacuation alert system to BS 8629 is for the fire and rescue service to tell residents of specific flats to leave when a stay-put strategy is changed. Gemini AMPM Ltd holds NSI Gold under BAFE SP207 for evacuation alert; Helix Tower's system is controlled only by the fire service.
Yes. A compliant fire detection and alarm system is the usual route, and a wireless system installs quickly in an occupied block with little disturbance to the fabric. The Unity Building went from award to a thousand devices in four weeks, and the watch was stood down.
AMPM Building Services delivers cladding, render and external-wall remediation, with the fire performance of the build-up specified to BS 8414 and BR 135 and records kept for the golden thread. The passive fire elements inside the building are Gemini AMPM's, under FIRAS.
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.