ADS Group tests, certifies, designs and installs emergency lighting to I.S. 3217 across County Louth, including Dundalk and Drogheda. The standard requires a monthly functional test and an annual full-duration discharge test, normally three hours. In Louth's logistics premises and multi-tenant town-centre buildings the recurring problem is the same one: the escape route on the drawing is not the escape route in use.
People leaving a distribution building do not stop at the door. The route continues across a yard that is unlit at night, past vehicle movements, to a place of safety. External coverage is the part most often missing from an otherwise complete system.
Where several tenants share a building, the common-area lighting is usually the landlord's and each demise is the tenant's. The gap between them is where fittings go untested for years. The certificate should state exactly what was covered so the gap is visible rather than assumed away.
The same fitting delivers far less illuminance on the floor of a warehouse than in an office. Coverage has to be calculated for the mounting height rather than taken from a datasheet figure.
Full detail on the system types, the standards and the certification process is on the Emergency Lighting page, and everything else we cover in the county is on the Louth page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
