Emergency Lighting Installation and Maintenance
When the main power to a building such as, a commercial building being a hotel, schools, colleges, office blocks, hospitals, or an apartment complex such as a block of flats, cuts out due to a power cut or fire situation, the emergency lighting system takes over. If this were not in place there would be total darkness for staff and workers in a commercial building or occupants and tenants in a block of flats or apartment complex. This means in the case of a fire the route out to the exit points would be very difficult to find resulting in potential loss of life. This is why emergency lighting is so important, it activates automatically when the main power is cut and illuminates corridors and stairways sufficiently enough to guide you to the nearest exit points out of the building. All new builds for these types of buildings and complexes have emergency lighting installed in their construction programme designed by the architect responsible for the build and complying with the local authorities rules, current Building Regulations and British Standards guidelines BS 5266-1: 2011
British Standards guidelines (BS 5266-1: 2011) will recommend the design and duration of a particular emergency lighting system for a building but it’s prudent to remember that the recommendations are for minimum safe standards required, so in some cases it may be necessary to consider a system designed to a higher standard.
