ADS Group services and certifies commercial fire detection and alarm systems across County Westmeath, including Athlone and Mullingar, to I.S. 3218. Servicing is quarterly with an annual certificate covering the full system. Westmeath's position on the N6 has made it a distribution and retail-park county, and shared detection systems across multiple tenants are the single most common arrangement we work on here.
When one detection system covers several tenanted units, the question of who holds responsibility for the system as a whole is frequently unanswered. Each tenant maintains their own fit-out, nobody owns the panel, and the annual certificate never gets issued. Establishing who holds the system is the first thing to fix, and it is an ownership question before it is an engineering one.
A new tenant partitioning a unit changes the ceiling void, the detector spacing and sometimes the sprinkler interface. The system has to be re-proven for that unit afterwards. Buildings that skip this end up with a certificate describing a layout that no longer exists.
A hotel that normally holds eighty guests can hold six hundred for an event. Evacuation strategy and sounder coverage have to work at the higher number, not the average, and function spaces are where sound level shortfalls usually show up.
Full detail on the system types, the standards and the certification process is on the Fire Detection & Alarms page, and everything else we cover in the county is on the Westmeath page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
