Emergency lighting for Edinburgh buildings
Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town are full of listed tenements, many used as short-term lets, which need interlinked alarms that meet Scottish requirements without harming historic interiors.
When the mains supply fails, emergency lighting has to light escape routes, exits, changes of direction and firefighting equipment for long enough for everyone to leave. For most buildings that means three hours.
We design layouts from a survey, install maintained or non-maintained fittings, and carry out the monthly functional tests and annual full-duration tests that BS 5266-1 expects. For larger sites, self-test and addressable emergency lighting systems cut testing time and give you an automatic record.
The rules that apply in Edinburgh
In Scotland, fire safety in non-domestic premises is governed by the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006, and enforced by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Scotland has its own building standards system and its own approach to cladding risk.
What is included
- Emergency lighting survey and design
- Installation of escape route, open area and high-risk task lighting
- Illuminated exit signage
- Monthly functional tests
- Annual full rated-duration tests
- Self-test and central battery systems
- Certificates and logbook records
Buildings we work on in Edinburgh
- Offices and retail
- Blocks of flats
- HMOs
- Warehouses
- Schools
- Hotels and care homes
Areas we cover from Edinburgh
From Edinburgh we also cover Kirkcaldy (11 miles), Dunfermline (13 miles), Livingston (14 miles), Falkirk (23 miles) and St Andrews (31 miles). If your building is not in a listed town, we still cover it: every enquiry for emergency lighting in Scotland is handled the same way.