One calendar, one certificate library
Building Compliance Services in London
Every statutory inspection and test your building needs, on one calendar, under one contract, with every certificate filed against the building rather than scattered across contractors.
Compliance rarely fails through neglect. It fails through fragmentation.
For a London commercial building the compliance load is relentless: fixed wire testing, emergency lighting, fire alarm servicing, fire door inspection, water hygiene, gas safety, lifting equipment, asbestos management.
The usual failure is not that somebody decided to skip a test. It is that eight different contractors each hold their own paperwork, on their own cycle, and nobody holds the whole picture. The gap only becomes visible when an insurer, a landlord or an auditor asks — which is the worst moment to discover it.
This service exists to hold the whole picture.
What sits on the compliance calendar
- Fixed wire testing and electrical installation condition reports (EICR)
- Emergency lighting: monthly function tests and the annual full-duration test
- Fire alarm and detection servicing, and fire extinguisher servicing
- Fire door inspection: quarterly on common parts, annually on flat entrance doors
- Fire risk assessment review and the remedial actions arising from it
- Water hygiene and legionella risk assessment, temperature monitoring and flushing regimes
- Gas safety inspection and certification
- Lifting equipment thorough examination (LOLER)
- Asbestos management surveys, register maintenance and duty-to-manage obligations
Delivered or managed, and we tell you which
Some of this work we self-deliver. Some of it is legitimately credential-gated — legionella risk assessment, lift thorough examination, UKAS-accredited asbestos surveying — and the honest position is that those should be done by accredited specialists.
What we do in every case is own the calendar, arrange the visit, chase the certificate, log the remedial actions and make sure the next cycle is booked. You get one contract and one accountable party. You do not get a contractor pretending to hold accreditations it does not have.
Remedials are where compliance actually breaks down
A test produces a certificate and, usually, a list of things to put right. Those remedial actions are where compliance most often stalls: the test happened, the report landed, and the C2 observations sat in an inbox until the next test found them again.
Remedial actions raised by any inspection go straight onto the works schedule with a priority and a price. That closes the loop, which is the only part of compliance that actually reduces risk.
Two areas worth looking at first
Fire door inspection
Post-Grenfell and under the Building Safety Act, fire door duties are specific and recurring: quarterly checks on common parts, annual checks on flat entrance doors. Failed self-closers and damaged intumescent seals are the most common findings, and both are repairable rather than replacement jobs if they are caught.
Emergency lighting testing
A monthly function test and an annual three-hour full-duration test. It is one of the most commonly missed obligations in commercial buildings because it is low-cost, low-drama and easy to defer — right up until a fire risk assessment picks it up.
Fixed wire testing (EICR)
Commercial installations generally require an EICR every five years, more often in higher-risk environments. The certificate matters, but the C1 and C2 remedial actions in it matter more, and they are what insurers actually read.
Common questions
Can you audit our current compliance position?
Yes, and it is the sensible starting point. We take your existing certificates, build the asset and obligation list for the building, and show you plainly what is in date, what is overdue and what has never been done.
Do you hold the accreditations for all of this yourselves?
No, and any contractor claiming otherwise is worth questioning. We self-deliver a substantial part of it and use accredited specialists for the credential-gated work: legionella risk assessment, lift thorough examination and UKAS-accredited asbestos surveying. We hold the relationship, manage the visit and own the certificate either way.
Who is legally responsible for compliance?
The duty sits with the building owner, the employer or the person in control of the premises, depending on the regulation. A contractor cannot take that duty off you. What we can do is make it straightforward to discharge and easy to evidence that you have.
What happens if a test fails?
The findings are graded and quoted. Anything immediately dangerous is made safe on the visit. Everything else goes onto the remedial schedule with a priority, so it is planned and budgeted rather than rediscovered at the next inspection.
One conversation, every trade at the table.
Tell us about the building and which disciplines are causing the pain. We will come back with how the group would run them.
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