"fire stopping"

Due to a high demand from our valued customers, we are proud to announce the latest product to our range - electric meter cover. Our Fire Rated Overboxes are a retrofit solution for keeping your gas and electrical meters safe from fire and tamper. These are ideally suited for refurbishment and newbuild products for multi-occupancy properties such as apartment blocks.

Project:Surespan manufactured and supplied a series of fire escape hatches at Portugal’s €950 million underground Metro in Porto. The huge double-leaf hatches automatically open if the fire alarm system is activated to allow passengers safe exit to ground level. In addition, they can be manually opened with the touch of a button. This project was undertaken after Surespan successfully carried out similar work at Athens Metro.

When Bodmin Community Fire Station in Cornwall needed a hardwearing, hygienic, and safe flooring solution for their fitness room and gym, they turned to international flooring specialists Gerflor. Its’ Taraflex® sports flooring was supplied and would deliver to the highest standards required by the site users. In acknowledgement of the brave and hard work of Cornwall Fire Service crews, Gerflor donated 60m2 of this world-renowned sports flooring in the colour ‘Red’.

Doors can be an expensive commodity at the best of times but even more so when they have to be fire doors to conform to RRO regulations in buildings used by the public, such as Schools, Offices, Factories, Hospitals, Hotels and Leisure Facilities.A damaged fire door can render the door’s fire rating ineffective and can be costly to replace.By protecting against damage with Yeoman Shield fire rated door protection products, doors can maintain their performance and look.Click on the short video below to learn more.

Premier Security & Fire was commissioned to design, fabricate and install six sets of security doors at University College Hospital London (UCLH).Instructing clients Kyotec Group required a LPS1175 SR2 security standard on all doors, including one set of double doors with a 60-minute fire rating.Premier's portfolio of certificated doors, screens and gates ranges from LPS1175 SR2 to C5 (SR3); D10 (SR4) including fire-resistance to EI 60 and E90, and thermally-broken options.For more details of Premier Security & Fire’s extensive range of security doors, windows, screens, and gates, including Secured by Design standard, call our Managing Director Neil Johns, on 0208 559 8295. He will be happy to take your call.

When you design a building that will be used by lots of people, like a tower block, you need to make sure that the building has the correct level of fire prevention and fire protection equipment. In instances where this isn’t the case, tragedies like the Grenfell Fire can happen. The importance of passive and active fire protection methods are vital for the safety of the intended occupants, but how can you ensure they’re going to be safe?

Surespan designed and manufactured several fire-rated roof hatches for the Killeen ISD East/West Ward Elementary School, in Killeen Texas.  The Project:Huckabee is the architect behind the East/West Ward Elementary School, tasked with replacing two 60-year-old campuses, by combining them into one new holistic learning environment. The planning behind the architecture focuses on efficiency, function and ease of wayfinding. From simple to navigate corridors, modernised classrooms and glazing to illuminate the interior with natural light. East/West Ward Elementary School blends district design standards with innovative thinking to achieve spacial efficiency and maintain equitability.Product:Surespan designed and manufactured five 35.5-inch x 35.5-inch Fire Rated Roof Hatch with an integral guard hand railing attached. These hatches are thermally broken and have been designed and tested with 4-hour fire resistance for integrity to EN 1634-1:2014.  Features:These hatches are using environmentally friendly materials such as non-combustible minerals and fireboard cladding to achieve a top-performing thermal efficiency. All the hatches were finished in a light grey polyester powder-coated finish for an aesthetically pleasing solution. The coating is set to last many years, just like the durable masonry veneer that is featured in the building, helping to maintain the space for years to come. 

July saw us complete various projects, but the ones that stand out for us, are the preventative highways maintenance work for Leicester City Council and the hard landscaping of some communal gardens, a car park and a cycle lane for a new housing development in Ashford, Kent.