Fire Safety & Damper Compliance at Parkwood Leisure

Parkwood Leisure manages 76 facilities, including leisure centres, golf courses, health & wellbeing centres, heritage and theatre sites on behalf of 42 local authorities throughout England and Wales. Maintaining robust safety standards across multiple public-facing venues is a top priority, which led Parkwood to partner with Clean Air UK for specialist fire safety and compliance solutions.

Comprehensive Fire Safety Services Provided

Clean Air UK delivers a broad portfolio of passive fire protection measures across 7 regional sites spanning East Anglia, Oxfordshire, and Northamptonshire. The core services provided include:

• Fire Damper Testing & Remedials: Ensuring all ventilation mechanical safety barriers function correctly.

• Fire Door Inspections: Assessing and maintaining the integrity of fire escape routes.

• Fire Stopping & Compartmentation Surveys: Identifying vulnerabilities and maintaining structural compartmentalization to prevent fire spread.

Contract Overview & Evolution

Parkwood approached Cleanair UK in January 2025 to assist in addressing fire damper maintenance with a view to achieving compliance through a programme of consultancy, site investigations, testing, and remedial works. Due to the success and reliability of the partnership, this scope has since evolved to providing additional passive fire work, inspections, and consultancy across the estate.

Intelligent Service Delivery

Clean Air UK delivers a fully compliant Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) service utilizing intelligent SimPro workforce and job management systems alongside Aurora Passive Fire Software. This cutting-edge technology allows the team to deploy and track the right resources and competencies to complete all planned fire damper testing and remedial works in line with BS9999:2017, The Fire Safety Order 2005, and The Building Regulations Approved Document B.

Founded in 1985, Travelodge are Britain’s very first budget hotel chain. Today, Travelodge is one of the largest budget hotel chains in the UK, with a well-invested and modernised portfolio of 630 hotels that have approximately 49,000 rooms across the UK, Ireland and Spain.

Services Provided:

Fire Damper PPM Testing, Fire Damper Repairsl Fire Damper Replacements, Passive Fire Stopping

Region & Sites: 524 nationwide

Contract Overview & Service Delivery:

We were successfully awarded the contract 3 years ago, to provide compliance testing and remedial works to all fire dampers across a nationwide portfolio of hotels. Works include the regular testing and maintenance of all fire dampers, along with a planned programme of remedials, upgrades, replacements and some compartmentation work. This also includes providing our expert passive fire safety advice on a diverse portfolio, where both current and legacy legislation are applicable.

Using our mobile workforce management system, attendances and job lists are uploaded, with allocated dates and resource 3 months in advance. The client has full access to the client portal showing all work information (start & finish times, photographic evidence of works complete, job cards & certification) ensuring a fully accountable and traceable process.

17,428 fire dampers tested

5,692 remedial tasks completed