Emergency lighting for Gateshead buildings
Gateshead mixes riverside apartments with established industrial estates and trade parks, where multi-occupancy units often share a single fire alarm system that needs clear cause and effect between tenants.
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 Gateshead
In England, fire safety in non-domestic premises and the common parts of blocks of flats is governed by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, as amended by the Fire Safety Act 2021 and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. Higher-risk residential buildings are also covered by the Building Safety Act 2022, which is overseen by the Building Safety Regulator.
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 Gateshead
- Offices and retail
- Blocks of flats
- HMOs
- Warehouses
- Schools
- Hotels and care homes
Areas we cover from Gateshead
From Gateshead we also cover Newcastle upon Tyne (2 miles), Washington (5 miles), North Shields (7 miles), South Shields (7 miles) and Sunderland (9 miles). Elsewhere in Tyne and Wear we work in Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, South Shields, North Shields and Washington. If your building is not in a listed town, we still cover it: every enquiry for emergency lighting in North East England is handled the same way.