Skyline Firestopping — fire protection London specialist

Fire protection London can defend at handover

Your London programme gets tested firestopping, installed exactly as tested and photographed seal by seal, supporting a Gateway 2 handover you can defend. Delivered by a team working under Skyline’s BM TRADA Q-Mark third-party installer certification.

We’ve worked on London landmarks including The Gherkin, Grosvenor Square and Olympic Park. We cover Greater London and the M4 corridor, so your compliance holds under scrutiny.

Service areas

Higher-risk buildings across Greater London

For developers, managing agents and commercial landlords, firestopping is what keeps a London programme moving, supports a Gateway 2 submission and reduces the risk of avoidable rework, delay and stop notices. On buildings over 11 metres, unproven work leaves liability open long after handover.

We seal every penetration, joint and cavity with tested systems, installed exactly as tested. That makes firestopping easier for your team, working alongside your other trades on live London sites.

  • Alongside your other trades We work the way construction actually runs: flexible, pragmatic and collaborative in a dynamic environment.
  • Greater London & the M4 corridor Based in Henley-on-Thames, RG9 — covering Greater London, plus Reading, Maidenhead, Windsor, Slough and Watford. See all service areas.
  • Real-time progress tracking Full transparency as the work goes in. You see the evidence build, penetration by penetration.
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Landmark London projects

The buildings that can’t afford to get it wrong

Fire protection in London on some of the UK’s most demanding projects. The people behind the wall have done this before, on the buildings that can’t get it wrong.
The golden thread

See the evidence as the work goes in

These are our seals on real jobs. Every penetration, joint and cavity is photographed before, during and after cover-up, then tagged, batch-traced and geo-located, captured in the golden thread as installed, never reconstructed afterwards.

Record Photographed before cover-up
Trace Tagged & batch-traced
Thread Captured as installed
System Tested, installed as tested
Record Before, during & after
Locate Geo-located
Survey Checked before close-out
Track Real-time progress
Handover Complete evidence pack
Complete evidence pack at handover, with durable record retention. It is built to survive an RFI, a stop notice and the long liability tail on a higher-risk building.
BM TRADA Q-Mark certified installer Third-party installer certification — verify our certificate against the BM TRADA scheme register before the first seal goes in.
Booking a survey sets up a defensible handover, with the evidence proven as the work goes in. A BM TRADA Q-Mark certified specialist walks your London building, and you get a clear scope and evidence plan. No obligation.
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Talk to a specialist

Get clear advice on your London project

Get in touch with one of our specialists for a free, no-obligation discussion about your building, your programme and what compliant firestopping installation, certification and evidence require. You get clear advice from the BM TRADA Q-Mark certified team that has worked on The Gherkin, Grosvenor Square and Olympic Park. The same team installs the work and hands over the evidence.
Certified, evidenced, London-proven

London fire protection you can certify and defend

Fire protection London, in the passive sense, is the firestopping, compartmentation and sealing of every service penetration, joint and cavity that stops fire and smoke spreading between compartments in a building. On higher-risk buildings it is a legal duty, and the work that supports a Gateway 2 submission and reduces the risk of avoidable rework, delay and stop notices.

Skyline holds BM TRADA Q-Mark third-party installer certification for its firestopping London work: independent proof, not our word for it. An external body has audited how the work is installed against the tested system, so building control, insurers, owners and the Building Safety Regulator can accept it without question. Tested systems are installed exactly as tested, never mixed with another manufacturer’s components, because mixing voids the fire-test evidence the certificate rests on. You can verify our certificate against the BM TRADA scheme register before the first seal goes in, and we are progressing our ASFP membership application alongside it.

On a live London programme, Skyline installs the firestopping London sites need alongside your other trades, planning the work backwards from the building’s safety requirements and your handover date. Every penetration, joint and cavity is photographed before, during and after cover-up, tagged, batch-traced and geo-located, then handed over as a complete golden-thread evidence pack. London projects we’ve delivered include Grosvenor Square House in Mayfair, the former Canadian Embassy converted to apartments, and the office-to-residential conversion at Olympic Park. Coverage runs across Greater London and along the M4 corridor; see the full list of <a href="/service-areas">fire protection service areas</a>. You reach handover with the fire protection already proven, not a punch list of unverified seals.

As the passive fire protection contractors London developers and managing agents rely on, Skyline covers the full passive fire protection London scope: penetration sealing, compartmentation, cavity barriers and remedial work, plus structural fire protection where intumescent coatings protect the steel frame. It is deliberately focused work. Skyline installs and evidences the compartmentation itself rather than writing fire risk assessments or fire strategies, which sit with separate specialists. Each seal is installed exactly as its tested system specifies, photographed before cover-up and logged, so the evidence holds up when building control, the Building Safety Regulator or an insurer asks to see it.

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