ADS Group tests, certifies, designs and installs emergency lighting to I.S. 3217 across Cork city and county. The standard sets a monthly functional test and an annual full-duration discharge test, normally three hours, proving every luminaire stays lit for the full period on battery alone. On Cork's production sites the escape route is rarely a simple corridor, and that is what makes the design review as important as the test.
An escape route through a production area runs past machinery, changes in level and equipment that moves. Emergency lighting has to light the route people will actually take in the dark, including the point where they step down off a platform. Lighting designed for an office corridor applied to a plant floor leaves exactly those points dark.
A fitting mounted at warehouse ceiling height delivers far less light at floor level than the same fitting in an office. Coverage has to be calculated for the mounting height, and a system that passes a visual check can still be well under the required illuminance on the ground.
A three-hour discharge leaves the building on battery. On a continuously running site that is planned: the test is staged by area so the whole facility is never on emergency supply at once, and it is scheduled around the production calendar.
Full detail on the system types, the standards and the certification process is on the Emergency Lighting page, and everything else we cover in the county is on the Cork page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
