Compliance under strict conservation constraints
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. Oxford's particular challenge is meeting these duties within listed college buildings governed by some of the strictest conservation planning in the country.
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 historic settings the emphasis is on upgrading existing doors sympathetically wherever a survey shows it will meet the standard, keeping original joinery rather than removing it.
Fire doors for Oxford's colleges and student accommodation
Education leads our fire door work in Oxford, across college and university estates that combine historic fabric with heavy daily use and residential accommodation. Students living in centuries-old buildings, term-time occupancy and conservation constraints 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.
Hospitals, science parks and industry
Healthcare
The major hospital estate at Headington, including the John Radcliffe and Churchill, needs healthcare compartmentation maintained in live clinical areas, phased with infection control observed.
Commercial and industrial. Oxford's science and business parks and the industrial heritage at Cowley bring commercial and industrial premises needing fire door programmes that keep operations running.
Certified trades, heritage-aware
Every instruction opens with an inspection and an itemised quote separating doors that need replacing from those a repair will restore. Our tradespeople hold CSCS cards and train 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 an Oxford project also needs redecoration we can run it alongside our painting and decorating in Oxford team on one programme and a single point of contact.
