Property Security
Access Control Installation
Guardian Edge installs and maintains access control across the UK — from single-door standalone units to networked, multi-site systems with central administration. The value is not the lock: it is being able to say exactly who holds access to what, and to remove it the day someone leaves.
You should be able to answer 'who can get in?' in under a minute.
Who this is for
- Facilities managers running access across multiple buildings
- Managing agents of residential blocks and mixed-use developments
- Commercial occupiers controlling areas within a building
- Sites with contractor and visitor access to manage
Problems it solves
- Nobody knows how many working fobs are in circulation
- Leavers still hold access months after departure
- Every site has a different system with a different administrator
- Doors are propped open because the system makes normal work difficult
- The system does not release on fire alarm activation
What Guardian Edge provides
Our access control scope
What we provide
- Proximity, fob, card, PIN, mobile credential and biometric readers
- Standalone door controllers through to networked, cloud-managed systems
- Magnetic locks, electric strikes, motorised locks and turnstiles
- Fire alarm interfacing so doors release on activation
- Access group design, time profiles and audit reporting
- Visitor and contractor access management
- Integration with door entry, CCTV and intruder systems
Typical scope
- Single doors through to campus-wide and national estates
- Residential communal entrances, bike stores, bin stores and plant rooms
- Commercial receptions, server rooms, stores and restricted areas
Before we price anything
Inspection & survey process
- 01
Map who needs to go where
Access groups designed around actual roles, so administration afterwards is simple rather than constant.
- 02
Assess each door
Door type, fire rating, existing ironmongery, power availability and whether the door will physically take the lock proposed.
- 03
Plan the escape strategy
Every access-controlled door on an escape route needs a compliant means of egress and a fire alarm release.
On site
How the work is delivered
- 01
Install and interface
Readers, controllers, locks, power supplies and the fire alarm interface installed and proven.
- 02
Build the system
Access groups, time profiles, holiday calendars and user records configured.
- 03
Enrol and hand over
Credentials issued and recorded, administrators trained, and the credential register handed to you — not retained by us.
Compliance
What the rules actually require
- Access-controlled doors on escape routes must allow free egress without a key, code or credential. Fire safety takes precedence over security on every escape route.
- Doors held closed by maglocks must release automatically on fire alarm activation and on loss of power, and a green break-glass emergency release must be provided where required.
- Access control logs identify individuals and are personal data. Retention should be limited and the purpose should be stated to staff.
- Where access control is fitted to fire doors, the ironmongery must not compromise the door's fire rating.
Standards & legislation
These are not all the same kind of obligation, and we do not present them as if they were. A statutory duty is law. A British Standard is the recognised way of demonstrating you have met one. Guidance and our own recommendations are neither.
- British StandardBS EN 60839-11
Electronic access control systems
System and component requirements, including access point grading.
- Legal requirementRRO 2005
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Requires escape routes to be available and usable at all material times — which governs how access control may be applied to them.
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Ongoing support
Planned, reactive and multi-site.
Most providers do one of these well. The value of a single provider is that the schedule, the emergency and the portfolio all sit in the same place.
Planned maintenance
- Scheduled maintenance covering locks, readers, power supplies and fire interfaces
- Periodic user list review so leavers are actually removed
- Battery and door hardware replacement before failure
Reactive support
- 24-hour attendance for lock failures and lockouts
- Urgent credential revocation support
Multi-site & national portfolios
- One system and one administrator view across every site
- Consistent access group structure so a transferring employee needs one change, not ten
- Central audit reporting across the estate
Procurement, simplified
What happens next?
- 01
Tell us what you need
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough to start.
- 02
We assess the requirement
We confirm scope, access, and whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.
- 03
You receive a clear quotation
Itemised, with what is included and what is not. No provisional sums that move later.
- 04
We arrange attendance
A confirmed date and window, with the engineer or trade named in advance.
- 05
Works are completed
Carried out by directly managed engineers or vetted specialist subcontractors.
- 06
Evidence is supplied
Certification, test records and photographic evidence where the work calls for it.
Answers
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Locations covered
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Argyll and Bute
- Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blaenau Gwent
- Borough of Bolton
- Borough of Bury
- Borough of Halton
- Borough of Oldham
- Borough of Rochdale
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Get a quotation for access control.
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough for us to start — and we will tell you plainly whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.