We have installed a cutting edge smart access control system and metal doorset at a business premises in Reading.

The existing main entry security consisted of a basic keypad device which was no longer fit for purpose.

Access control systems allow you to monitor and control who enters your business premises.

The installed Akuvox system features facial recognition entry for all staff, and a rugged and reliable vandal-resistant design.

Additionally, staff can also enter using a personalised PIN number, BLE, QR Code, NFC or Card.

In the office, staff can answer entrance doors via 10 inch indoor monitors.

These stylish devices allow staff to talk to visitors while observing a live video of the person.

The Akuvox Smart Intercom product family features stylish design with extreme ease of use, Akuvox smart intercom leverages vast fields of cutting-edge technologies for intelligent building access and home control.

The metal doorset was a custom order from Latham’s and provides a weatherproof, durable and secure solution for the premises. Latham’s are The UK’s leading supplier of steel doors.

Metal doorsets come in a variety of designs and specifications and most commonly a custom order. We have the knowledge and experience to specify and quote the right metal doorset for your application and specific requirements.

Fire rated steel doors expand into their frame under heat, sealing off a room where a fire has broken out to prevent the spread of smoke and flames. They play an important role in emergency fire procedures and can be installed to help your building comply with fire safety legislation.

We have installed a number of metal doorsets around the Thames Valley and South of UK, including schools, village halls and business premises.

This metal fire exit doorset was installed by RES and features an internal push bar mechanism compliant to the buildings means of escape.

The original wooden door was damaged and frame was rotten, so was replaced with a weather and damage resistant metal doorset.

Metal doorsets come in a variety of designs and specifications and most commonly a custom order. RES Fire have the knowledge and experience to specify and quote the right metal doorset for your application and specific requirements.

This replacement metal fire exit doorset required a vision panel as defined in the customers fire risk assessment as the original was without this feature.

An internal push bar is installed.

Our expert team of installers will work professionally and competently on site, ensuring the installation is correctly installed, tested and signed off.

All our engineers are DBS checked, giving you peace of mind for occupants.

RES installed this high security metal door at a warehouse facility.

Typical applications of metal doorsets are

– Fire Exits

– Security Doors

– Plant Rooms

– Residential entrances

– Industrial settings

Typical benefits of metal doorsets are

– Security

– Durability

– Fire resistance

– Insulation

Following our customers fire risk assessment, a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities school in Reading, they approached RES Fire for a quotation to install five fire rated metal doorsets for various plant and caretaker locations around the site.

Accurate dimensions were taken by RES for each door and a custom order was put together which specified the door colour, fire rating and any specific order requirements such as louvred panels.

Our chosen supplier was Latham’s, The UK’s leading supplier of steel doors.

Fire rated steel doors expand into their frame under heat, sealing off a room where a fire has broken out to prevent the spread of smoke and flames. They play an important role in emergency fire procedures and can be installed to help your building comply with fire safety legislation.

The doors ordered were specified as FD60: 1 hour fire rated, certified by Warrington – Certifire.

Our schedule allowed a week for the five doors to be installed during the summer holidays, while the school was closed.

Plant room doors were either single or double metal fire doors, seen here with completed signage, louvres and locks.

The works were completed on time and on budget.

On completion all the doors were carefully documented on our Uptick service and maintenance platform for future reference.

Following our customers fire risk assessment, a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities school in Reading, they approached RES Fire for a quotation to install 16 double and 49 single FD 60s and FD 30s fire doors. RES Fire was selected due to our certification to the BM TRADA Q-Mark Fire Door Installation scheme.

After providing a detailed quotation and schedule of works, which was accepted by the customer, our passive works supervisor set about ordering the required doors from Sentry Doors – who provide high quality, fully compliant fire rated fire doorsets which are tested and certificated to the BM TRADA Q-Mark Fire Door Manufacturers scheme.

RES Fire commenced the project during the summer vacation, working methodically from block to block, firstly removing the old doors, then installing each new doorset in turn.

The installation is done in a number of key stages for each door
– Frame fitting
– Packing and fire stopping
– Door hanging
– Hardware / Closer installation
– Testing
– Plug insertion

For the frame fitting, the installation must be a perfect fit which is both true and level, thus ensuring the permitted gaps will be within tolerance. Any gaps are filled with “Blue 60” fire rated foam as part of a complete system specified and tested by BM TRADA and tested to BS-EN 1634-1 & BS476-22. “Blue 60” fire rated packers are used alongside the foam to ensure an even surface along the frame.

Fire stopping works were completed by our technicians under our certification to the BM TRADA Q-Mark Fire Stopping scheme.

The door hanging must use the correct supplied fire rated hinges and ensure a perfect fit.

Any final hardware is then installed such locks, latches, signage and closers.
The door is then tested to ensure that the closer shuts the door onto the latch from any position and that all the gaps are within tolerance.

For each fire door installed, a special plug is inserted by our technicians which identifies the fire rating of the door and a unique certified installation company number under the BM TRADA Q-Mark Fire Door Installation scheme.

Any subsequent inspection of the doorset can quickly authenticate the rating and installation of the fire door.

RES Fire chose Sentry Doors to provide the various fire-rated doorsets required for this project. Sentry Doors have been manufacturing fire doors for over 25 years, All doors were pre-ordered based on detailed measurements being provided.

Sentry Doors fire doorsets undergo extensive independent testing in a UKAS-approved test house. These tests, alongside their Q-Mark certification, help them to ensure that their products can play a key role of a premises fire safety measures.

A number of different fire doorsets were required around the school site such as double doors in corridors and hallways, single doors to classrooms and offices, as well as cupboard doors to electrical equipment.

Dependant on the requirements as specified in the Fire Risk Assessment and supporting fire strategy plans, doorsets were supplied and installed as either FD30s or FD60s.

– FD30s fire doorsets prevent the spread of fire and smoke for up to 30 minutes
– FD60s fire doorsets prevent the spread of fire and smoke for up to 60 minutes

As part of the BM-Trada Q Mark scheme, all doors are documented in a Record of Installation Activites Form as well as being logged on our UPTICK customer management software.
Information such as door reference, door type, location, fire rating and installation date are documented.

To ensure all the fire doorsets are ready to be regularly inspected and maintained, all the installed fire doorsets have been catalogued in our UPTICK fire safety customer management software.

Key information such as the doorset reference, location and fire rating are all at hand. RES Fire will inspect the doors on a 6 monthly basis in accordance with current
British Standards and the BM TRADA Q-Mark Fire Door Maintenance scheme.

Any defects can be identified and recorded by our technicians using the UPTICK APP backed up with photographic evidence and then provided to the customer in an easy to follow report.

Due to the customer having other works undertaken during the summer holidays and planned for the October half term, our original schedule of works has remained flexible to suit the customers requirements. With weekend works planned by our technicians the project will be completed on time as originally planned.

“This is an important project for the school and is rewarding to be involved delivering compliant doorsets to a timescale that works for the customer”

James Hill, Passive Supervisor

For our customer site, a multi-storey residential block in Marylebone, London – RES were required to produce a set of fire alarm zone plans on completion of a fire detection and alarm system installation as-well as for the communal areas. RES provided a set of fire evacuation and procedure plans, fire escape plans and fire equipment plans for the customer site.

Comprised of over 50 flats over five floors, some basic plan drawings were firstly provided by the customer as a starting point.

Producing a fire alarm zone plan is very much a team effort.

Our installation team would then define the zone information based on the final install.

RES then set about marking up the blank drawings with the zone information which is drawn up digitally using CAD software.

Colour coded zones are clearly defined and labelled in the drawing, therefore making it as clear as possible to understand.

Finally, the completed zone chart is then printed and delivered to site.

A set of fire evacuation plans were then produced for each floor to provide residents with evacuation procedures in the event of a fire or an emergency.

The fire equipment plans detail the location of the installed fire detection and alarm system assets, as-well as firefighting equipment.

In conclusion, our customer now has an accurate diagrammatic representation in the form of a fire alarm zone plan, showing at the building entrances, the main circulation areas and the division into Zones.

The fire evacuation plans provide residents with critical information in the event of a fire or an emergency.

Our customer needed a new Fire Detection and Alarm System for a large residential property containing over 80 apartments across eight stories in central London.

Three separate blocks that made up the premises would need to be networked together as-well as a link to commercial premises at the front of the property.

RES Fire proposed that a wireless fire detection and alarm system be installed.

Wireless EMS FireCell devices were connected to three HAES Elan fire control panels, one panel for each block.

Fifty new radio loop modules connect wirelessly to all of the fire safety devices in the building.

Behind the scenes, RES installed new cable trays and trunking to carry new cabling in the basement.

The common areas such as the lobby, corridors and stairwells now have new wireless manual call points, as well as wireless multi-sensors and sounders.

Each flat has wireless heat detectors and wireless multi-sensors with sounders fitted.

Over 400 new devices have been installed throughout Melton Court.

One-to-one training was provided to the porter staff and an “alarm guide” handout and help videos were provided to the residents to ensure that they were informed of basic function of the new fire detection and alarm system.

The new fire detection and alarm system was linked to of the commercial premises in front of Melton Court, so that in the event of a fire in a unit, adequate notice is given to the residents.

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Melton Court now has a fully compliant Fire Detection and Alarm system which will give the residents peace of mind and confidence that in the event of a fire, they are alerted to the danger.

RES were asked to install a new fire detection and alarm system for a number of residential apartment blocks in the South of UK.

Our customer, a property management company, had undertaken a detailed Fire Risk Assessment outlining the requirements and specifications needed.

As outlined in the Fire Risk Assessment, RES planned and installed a Category L5 fire detection and alarm system using hybrid technology – with both wired and wireless devices.

RES was also able to link the new fire alarm system to existing Automatic Opening Vent (AOV) devices.

With hundreds of flats, split across five blocks, care and attention was needed to liaise closely and directly with each and every resident, via our dedicated ‘Resident Liaison Officer’.

A HAES Elan Panel 5400 was installed in each of the five blocks and linked to the specified EMS FireCell wireless devices such as smoke and heat detectors via EMS Fusion Radio Loop modules.

Care and attention was taken to ensure any necessary cabling was set within neat, tidy and compliant trunking throughout each block.

RES was able to complete the works within a 7 week period, both on-time and on-budget.

The system was fully tested before it was signed off by one of our BAFE registered engineers, ensuring full compliance of the Fire Detection and Alarm System, ensuring peace of mind for the residents.

RES also provided the necessary fire alarm zone charts and operation and maintenance manuals containing all certificates, drawings, product, service and user information.

Handover and a demonstration was carried out on a Saturday morning, providing an opportunity to meet the residents and answer any questions they had.

Our client, SBA Property Management approached RES Fire to quote for the replacement of six flat front doors at a property in Surrey.

The original doors, some with glazed panels above the doors were considered in the premises FRA not to offer sufficient fire resistance to support the premises ‘stay put’ fire safety policy, hence the recommendation by the assessor to replace the doors and glazing with compliant fire resistant installations.

RES Fire attended the property to take precise measurements of each doorset (door and frame) and glazed panels above to provide a quotation for the
project including the options that were available to leaseholders regarding the style and finish of doors as well as the glazed panels.

Once leaseholder options were confirmed and the quotation approved, RES set about ordering the doorsets complete with panels and scheduled in the installation based on the manufacturers confirmed delivery date.

Each doorset was supplied by the manufacturer as a complete doorset (door and frame) including all door furniture (ironmongery) such as locks, fire rated hinges and door closers.

During the installation RES Fire were audited on-site by BM TRADA as part of the Q-Mark schemes’ regular ongoing assessment requirements.

The audit covered both the doorset installation and the surrounding fire stopping work around the newly installed doors.

A rigid process and documentary evidence for fire doorset installation has to be adhered to in order to comply with the schemes high standards.

These include completion of “Records of Installation Activities”, labelling and plugging of the doors, taking photographic evidence as-well as providing product technical datasheets for the specific doorsets installed. Nothing can be missed.

When installing a new doorset it is essential that not only is the frame correctly fitted to the surrounding walls but also all gaps and holes are suitably fire stopped to the required fire resistance as per the manufacturers installation instructions.

Our certification to both the Q-Mark fire door installation and fire stopping schemes means our technicians follow strict installation procedures, ensuring a projects high level of workmanship.

Both the BM TRADA installation and fire stopping audits were passed without any reported issues.