Solihull is a different kind of work from the Black Country. The borough is office parks (Blythe Valley, Birmingham Business Park, Solihull town centre), the hotels and venues around the NEC, Resorts World and the airport, a long high street of dental, medical and professional practices through Solihull, Shirley, Knowle and Dorridge, and the retail of Touchwood and Shirley. Most of what we do there is planned fit-out, refurbishment and compliance work rather than heavy industrial, and we are twenty-five minutes away down the A41 or the M42.
What we do in Solihull
- Office fit-outs and refurbishments on the business parks and in the town centre, to a designer's or main contractor's programme, and the five-yearly EICR for managed buildings.
- Fire alarms and emergency lighting for hotels, where the category is high because people sleep there, and for offices and practices.
- Structured cabling and Wi-Fi for offices and hotels, where guests and tenants notice when it does not work.
- Access control and door entry for multi-tenant office buildings and practices.
- CCTV for car parks, lobbies and retail.
Hotels and venues around the NEC
The hotels along the A45 and around the airport trade every night of the year, so the work is done in blocks of rooms taken out of sale and handed back finished, and in the kitchens before breakfast prep. Fire detection and emergency lighting in a hotel are inspected often and the log books need to be in order; we service both on a schedule and leave the records where the duty manager can find them.
Practices on the high street
Solihull, Shirley, Knowle and Dorridge have a dental or medical practice every few hundred yards, many of them in converted houses. The work is surgery refits, X-ray room wiring, decontamination rooms, fire and emergency lighting to the regulator's expectations, and the EICR, all planned around clinic days. See healthcare and dental for how we approach them.
Parts of Solihull we work in
Solihull town centre, Shirley, Olton, Lode Heath, Elmdon, Marston Green, Chelmsley Wood, Castle Bromwich, Knowle, Dorridge, Bentley Heath, Balsall Common, Hampton-in-Arden, Meriden, Blythe Valley, Cheswick Green and Dickens Heath. B90 to B94 and the B37, B40 and B46 postcodes.