Emergency Light Installation
What is emergency lighting?
Lighting that automatically comes on when the power supply to the normal lighting provision fails.
Emergency lighting is a general term and is sub-divided into emergency escape lighting and standby lighting.
- Emergency escape lighting – that part of an emergency lighting system that provides illumination for the safety of people leaving a location or attempting to terminate a potentially dangerous process beforehand. It is part of the fire safety provision of a building and a requirement of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
- Standby lighting- that part of an emergency lighting system provided to enable normal activities to continue substantially unchanged. This guide does not include standby lighting as it is not a legal requirement and is a facility that may or may not be needed, depending on the use and occupancy of the premises, etc.
Emergency escape lighting is itself sub-divided into escape route lighting, open area lighting and high risk task area lighting.
Escape route lighting – that part of an emergency escape lighting system provided to ensure that the means of escape can be effectively identified and safely used by occupants of the building.
In modern new buildings, provisions for emergency lighting is taken into account during the design stage and is usually installed with the sustained lighting and other fixed electrical systems.
LED Emergency Lighting
M-Fire now stock a wide range of emergency light products and will install these as standard. Traditional fluorescent and halogen fittings can still be fitted although they are being phased out in favour of LED.
LED lighting has many more benefits, such as:
- Lower Energy Consumption
- Brighter, clearer light
- No Need to Keep Replacing Tubes
- Smaller and more discreet
- Lower Maintenance Costs (Smaller Cheaper Batteries)
How Can M-Fire Help?
M-Fire can design, and install emergency lighting to any building either new build or existing buildings. Whether you require additional emergency lighting, replacement emergency lighting or you have none what so ever, we can help.
To find out more about how m-Fire could help or to book a free survey and quotation, please contact us today.
