ADS Group services and certifies commercial fire detection and alarm systems across Galway city and county to I.S. 3218, with quarterly servicing and an annual certificate for the full system. Galway city's older commercial core brings a particular problem, which is that many premises cannot take the cabling a conventional system assumes, and wireless and hybrid detection is often the realistic route to a compliant certificate.
A protected or period building gets no concession on I.S. 3218. What changes is how you get there. Wireless and hybrid systems avoid the cable runs and penetrations that the fabric cannot take, and they certify identically. Where an existing system was bodged around the building, the survey says so rather than passing it.
Galway's hospitality premises run at very different intensities across the year. The practical consequence is that remedial work found at service should be done before the season, not during it, and the service calendar is set with that in mind.
Guesthouses, hotels and student accommodation carry sleeping risk, which means the alarm has to wake people, not just sound. Sound levels in bedrooms, the interface to any smoke control and the cause and effect for a phased evacuation all form part of the test rather than being assumed from the original design.
Full detail on the system types, the standards and the certification process is on the Fire Detection & Alarms page, and everything else we cover in the county is on the Galway page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
