Fire safety in listed colleges and modern labs
Fire door responsibility rests with the responsible person under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, covering non-domestic premises and communal residential areas, with the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 adding scheduled checks in buildings over 11 metres. In Cambridge those duties land on unusually varied stock — historic listed college buildings, laboratory and science-park facilities, and the modern offices of CB1.
A rating belongs to the whole doorset. We survey and fit intumescent strips and smoke seals, certified hinges and closers, correct perimeter gaps and compatible glazing, because an FD30 or FD60 door only performs when every component is certified and correctly installed. In listed college buildings the emphasis is on upgrading existing doors sympathetically where a survey shows it will meet the standard, rather than removing historic joinery.
Fire doors for Cambridge's colleges and university buildings
Education leads our fire door work in Cambridge, across college and university estates that combine centuries-old fabric with intensive daily use and residential accommodation. Conservation constraints, term-time occupancy and the sensitivity of these buildings all shape how and when work happens.
We schedule surveys and installations into vacations and out-of-hours windows, prioritise sympathetic upgrades in listed settings, and provide full certification and records. Every installer holds a CSCS card with City & Guilds or NVQ training, and our CHAS and Constructionline accreditations are in place for estates pre-qualification.)
Research facilities and city-centre workplaces
Healthcare
The Biomedical Campus around Addenbrooke's brings healthcare and research buildings needing compartmentation maintained in live, sensitive environments, phased with infection control observed.
Commercial and laboratory
The Cambridge Science Park, West Cambridge and the CB1 office quarter bring commercial and laboratory stock where fire door programmes must fit around research operations and keep tenants working.
Certified trades for sensitive estates
Every instruction opens with an inspection and an itemised quote, separating doors that need replacing from those that a repair will restore. Our tradespeople hold CSCS cards and are trained to City & Guilds or NVQ level, and the business is CHAS and Constructionline accredited with ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 certification.
Fire door work often forms part of a wider refurbishment, and where a Cambridge project also needs redecoration we can run it alongside our painting and decorating in Cambridge team on one programme and a single point of contact.
