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Fire safety, from detection
to passive fire.

Fire detection and alarm, evacuation alert, gaseous suppression, passive fire and security: designed, installed, certificated and maintained by Gemini AMPM Ltd, the group's life-safety flagship, trading since 1997.

The buyer of fire safety is usually the person who has to sign for it: the responsible person under the Fire Safety Order, the accountable person under the Building Safety Act, or the main contractor who has to hand over a building with its Regulation 38 information complete. What that person needs is one contractor that can take a fire strategy and deliver every system in it against a single cause-and-effect model.

Gemini AMPM does that. It designs, installs, commissions and maintains fire detection and alarm to BS 5839-1, voice alarm and disabled-refuge systems, evacuation alert systems to BS 8629, fixed gaseous suppression to BS EN 15004-1, and passive fire protection: fire doors, fire stopping and compartmentation. Security and access control sit in the same company, so the systems that have to release, lock or report on a fire signal are commissioned by the same engineers.

The record travels with the work: assets logged in Uptick from the first survey, findings recorded on site, and a commissioning pack, cause-and-effect and certificates a fire risk assessor or Building Control can use.

Accreditation

Certificates, held in the right name.

The certificates behind this page are held by Gemini AMPM Ltd, in its own name: NSI Gold for fire detection and alarm under BAFE SP203-1, for fixed gaseous suppression under BAFE SP203-3 and for evacuation alert systems under BAFE SP207; NSI NACOSS Gold for security systems; and FIRAS registration for passive fire installation. Each is checkable on the awarding body's public register. AMPM Group Limited and AMPM Building Services do not hold these certificates; in any group submission they are cited as held by Gemini AMPM Ltd.

By sector

Detection and compartmentation through live wards and risers, fire doors on clinical corridors, phased around occupancy and infection control.

Base-build alarm networks with tenant interfaces, refuge and voice alarm, fire door remediation and riser fire stopping in the common parts. Peterborough Court and Chiswick Park are the reference points.

Fire stopping and detection through occupied schools in term time, evacuation alert in student accommodation.

Alarm and dry-riser work inside trading venues, fire damper replacement in plant basements, back-of-house passive fire.

Evacuation alert to BS 8629, wireless alarm systems that replace a waking watch, loft and riser compartmentation in occupied blocks.

The group angle

Fire safety rarely arrives alone.

A fire-stopping survey finds ductwork that has never been cleaned. A new alarm needs power, containment and a change to the emergency lighting. A compartment line runs through a ceiling the fit-out is about to replace. Because ventilation hygiene, mechanical and electrical and fit-out sit in sister companies on the same number, the group sequences them under one programme rather than leaving you to referee three contractors.

Questions
Who certifies the work?

Gemini AMPM Ltd does, under its own registrations. Fire detection and alarm, gaseous suppression and evacuation alert systems are certificated under the BAFE schemes through NSI Gold; passive fire installations carry a FIRAS Certificate of Conformity. The certificate names Gemini AMPM Ltd, not the group.

Can you take over a system someone else installed?

Yes. Gemini AMPM maintains fire alarm, refuge, suppression, CCTV and access systems installed by others. A takeover starts with a survey that builds the asset register, records the condition of every device and sets the service calendar, so the first visit is not a guess.

Do you carry out fire risk assessments and fire door surveys?

Yes. Fire risk assessments, fire door condition surveys and fire-stopping surveys are all offered, and the remedial schedule that follows can be priced and delivered by the same team. Gemini AMPM's passive fire pages carry the detail.

Is there an out-of-hours line?

0330 043 0080 is answered 24 hours a day by a person, not a message service. It is the same number for every company in the group, so a fault on the alarm and a leak in the plant room go to the same place.

Need this on your building?

Call 0330 043 0080, day or night, or book a site survey. The work is delivered by Gemini AMPM Ltd.

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