ADS Group tests, certifies, designs and installs emergency lighting to I.S. 3217 across Meath. The standard requires a monthly functional test and an annual full-duration discharge test, normally three hours, proving every luminaire holds for the full period on battery. In schools and visitor premises the practical constraint is the calendar, and work that is not scheduled around it tends not to happen at all.
A three-hour discharge test and any remedial work behind it belong in a school holiday, not a teaching week. Certification then has to be current for the term ahead. That makes emergency lighting a scheduling problem in a school, and schools that treat it as a reactive one end up testing in September with pupils in the building.
A protected interior still has to be lit to the same standard on the escape route. What changes is the fitting and the mounting, because surface trunking and bulkheads across a period interior are both a conservation problem and usually unnecessary. The standard is met either way.
Commuter-belt buildings in Meath are frequently repurposed, and the escape route moves with the new layout while the fittings stay where the old one was. Every fitting can pass its test and the building still be non-compliant, because the lighting is in the wrong place.
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 Meath page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
