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Industries we protect

Fire Protection for
Hotels and Hospitality

Guests who do not know the building, kitchens running most of the day, and banquet halls that fill up in minutes. We design, install and maintain the systems that find a fire early and get people out calmly.

Our Solutions
Industry overview

Fire Safety in Hotels, Resorts and Banqueting

A hotel is harder than most buildings for one simple reason: the people in it are asleep, or they are strangers to the building, or both. They will not find their own way out. The system has to tell them, clearly, and it has to do it early enough to matter.

Behind the guest floors sits the other half of the problem. Kitchens running gas and hot oil for most of the day. Laundries, stores and plant rooms. Banquet halls and atriums with ceilings far too high for ordinary detectors. Each of those needs a different answer, all on one system.

We work across city hotels and resorts, serviced apartments, banqueting and convention venues, and the central kitchens and back-of-house areas that serve them.

  • One contractor, start to finish Survey, design, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance, all by us.
  • Fitted around a running hotel Phased floor by floor and wing by wing, worked around occupancy and events.
  • Built for the fire NOC Drawings, test records and certificates in the form the authority asks for.
  • Discreet where guests can see it Devices placed and finished so the guest areas still look like guest areas.
Risk profile

Key Fire and Safety Considerations

The six points we look at most closely when we survey a hotel.

Guests who do not know the building

People asleep in an unfamiliar room will not evacuate themselves. The alarm has to do that work.

Kitchens

Gas, hot oil and extract ducts running most of the day, in the part of the building with the highest fire load.

Banquet halls and atriums

High ceilings where smoke cools and spreads out long before it ever reaches a detector.

Occupancy that changes by the hour

A hall empty at four and full at seven changes what evacuation actually means.

Back of house

Laundries, stores, plant rooms and electrical rooms, behind doors guests never see and staff rarely check.

Reputation

For a hotel brand, an incident handled badly costs more than the damage does.

Applications by area

Protection by Property Area

These are the things we weigh up in each part of a property.

Guest rooms and corridors

Addressable detection in every room and along the corridors, with sounders loud enough to wake someone asleep.

Kitchens

Gas detection on the LPG supply, heat detection over the cooking line, and the kitchen tied into the hotel's alarm system.

Banquet halls and atriums

Beam detection across the volume, because the ceiling is far too high for point detectors to be any use.

Back of house and laundry

Detection in the stores, laundries and service corridors, which is where most hotel fires actually start.

Electrical and plant rooms

Detection inside the panel and suppression in the cabinet, so a fault is caught in the enclosure.

Car parks and basements

Beam or linear heat detection across a space too open for point devices, with sprinkler protection.

Our clients

Clients We Protect in This Sector

Marriott
Grand Hyatt
Hyatt Regency
Novotel
Alila
Palm Grove Hotel
Our expertise

Our Areas of Expertise

The parts of a hotel project that need the most care, and how we handle them.

Detection sized to the space

Addressable detection through guest floors with sounders sized to wake a sleeping guest, and beam detection where the ceiling defeats everything else.

Suppression that suits the risk

Sprinkler protection across the property, gas detection in the kitchens, and in-panel systems for the electrical rooms.

Protection inside the panel

In-panel detection and suppression, so an electrical fault is dealt with in the enclosure instead of becoming a building fire.

Handover you can actually use

Drawings, zone plans, cause-and-effect and test records, written so your team and your insurer can both read them.

Upgrades to what is already there

Upgrading a running property wing by wing, including systems we did not install, with the work planned around occupancy and the events calendar.

Keeping it working afterwards

Scheduled servicing and testing under an AMC, with a record of every visit and the same engineers coming back.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions hotel engineering and brand teams ask us first.

Still have a question?

Speak directly with one of our fire safety engineers.

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How do you cover a banquet hall or atrium?
Beam detection. The ceiling in those spaces is usually well above the height where a point detector is any use, because smoke cools and spreads out before it gets there. A beam across the volume picks up obscuration along its whole path, which is what you need in a tall open room.
What protects a commercial kitchen?
Gas detection on the LPG supply so a leak is known about before it becomes a fire, heat detection over the cooking line, and the kitchen brought onto the hotel's main alarm system. Hood and duct suppression is specified separately according to the cooking line and the extract arrangement.
Will devices be visible in guest rooms?
Some have to be, but placement and finish make a large difference. We plan device locations with the interiors in mind, which is far easier to do at design stage than after the ceilings are closed.
Can you work on a property that stays open?
Yes, and that is normally how it goes. Work is phased wing by wing or floor by floor, planned around occupancy and the events calendar, with any noisy or disruptive work scheduled when it suits you.
Can you install while we keep operating?
Usually, yes. The work is phased around your hours, area by area. If a short shutdown is genuinely unavoidable we tell you at design stage so you can plan for it, rather than you finding out on the day.
Can we extend what we already have instead of replacing it?
Often you can. It depends on the panel you have, whether it has spare capacity and whether the equipment is still supported by its manufacturer. We check that on site before we propose anything, and we will say plainly if extending it is the wrong call.
What does a site assessment involve?
An engineer comes out, walks the site with you and looks at each area. You get a written view of where the gaps are and what we would recommend, with the reasoning behind it. There is no charge and no obligation.
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