Multi-tenant floors, comms rooms, fit-outs and visitor traffic change your fire risk every quarter. Astoria designs, installs and maintains fire alarm systems, emergency lighting, CCTV and access control for London offices — certified to standard, serviced around your working day.
Responsibility sits between a landlord, a managing agent and three tenants — and the logbook belongs to nobody. These are the gaps we are called in to close.
Every Responsible Person must cooperate and share fire safety information. In practice, common parts get serviced and demised floors get forgotten — or one panel sits on two contracts and is tested by neither.
Miss one and your certification lapses — the first thing an insurer or incoming tenant asks to see.
New partitions and pods change detector spacing, sounder audibility and escape distances.
Standard smoke detection is the wrong tool behind a locked server room door. Aspirating detection buys you minutes.
Rotating desks, contractors and visitors mean fewer people know the escape routes — and a drill run on a quiet Friday proves very little.
We audit the alarm, emergency lighting, extinguishers, escape routes and your records together — then hand you a single written action list, priced.
Book the auditSelect a service to see what it covers.
Addressable fire detection and alarm systems designed to BS 5839-1 and phased for occupied floors, with interfaces to lifts, AOVs and door releases.
Six-monthly servicing, reactive call-outs and 24/7 engineer cover scheduled outside core hours, with certification issued after every visit.
Independent fire risk assessments for whole buildings, common parts or a single demise — with a prioritised action plan your managing agent can budget against.
Escape route lighting tested to BS 5266 and extinguisher provision to BS 5306, including CO₂ cover for server rooms and electrical risk areas.
Access control systems that manage tenants, contractors and visitors — fob, card and mobile credentials, floor-level permissions, fail-safe release tied into the fire alarm.
HD CCTV for receptions, lift lobbies, loading bays and car parks, plus monitored intruder detection for out-of-hours protection.
If you own, occupy or manage office premises in England, you are a Responsible Person under fire safety law. Here is the framework your building is judged on.
We work directly with occupiers, landlords, managing agents and fit-out contractors across Central London and the wider M25.
★★★★★I've been dealing with Astoria for a while now and have to say that they are incredibly professional, proficient and time keeping is great. We had an issue with our CCTV recently and Fraser sorted everything out.
★★★★★The service has been second to none with immediate response, excellent communication and a professional team of engineers. The relationship we have is more than being a customer — more like a partnership.
★★★★★Always a pleasure working with Astoria. Always on the other side of the phone, professional, responsive and helpful when needed. Would definitely recommend.
Most offices are protected to category L2 or L3 under BS 5839-1 — detection on escape routes plus rooms of higher risk. Larger, phased-evacuation or mixed-use buildings may require L1. Your fire risk assessment determines the category, not a price list.
Each Responsible Person is accountable for their own demise, while the landlord or managing agent typically covers common parts. The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 require you to cooperate and share relevant information — we document the split so nothing falls between contracts.
Weekly in-house call point tests, six-monthly competent-person alarm servicing, monthly emergency lighting function tests with an annual full-duration test, and an annual extinguisher service — all recorded in your fire logbook.
Yes. Installation and servicing are routinely carried out in the evening, at weekends or early morning, with zones isolated individually so the rest of the building stays protected and staff are not disturbed.
Yes. We specify aspirating smoke detection for early warning and suppression where downtime is unacceptable, along with CO₂ extinguishers and the correct interface with the main alarm panel.
We service portfolios for landlords and managing agents across London, with consolidated scheduling, one point of contact and certification reporting per property.
A qualified engineer reviews your alarm coverage, emergency lighting, extinguishers, escape routes and access control, then reports back in writing with a fixed-price proposal. No obligation to proceed.