Fire & Security At Canary Wharf

Canary Wharf is not a collection of independent buildings, it is a managed estate, and that governs how any installation proceeds. Contractor accreditation, permits to work, escorted access and defined delivery routes are all controlled centrally, and turning up without the paperwork in order means turning around again.

The buildings themselves are modern towers with comprehensive base build fire systems, so tenant work is nearly always extending or interfacing with an existing landlord installation rather than designing from scratch. Cause and effect has to be agreed with the building's engineering team, and commissioning is witnessed. Getting that interface wrong on a tower with phased evacuation is not a snag, it is a life safety failure.

Security requirements skew heavily toward access control, audit trails and integration with existing turnstile and visitor systems. Financial and professional tenants often carry their own internal security standards on top of the estate's, covering credential technology, access logging and who may hold administrative rights on the system. We are used to working to a client security policy rather than assuming ours will be accepted.