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With proven expertise, extensive experience, and a strategic presence across the UK, Ventro Group( Ventro) has grown into one of the UK’ s leading fire protection and life safety compliance companies. Providing end-toend compliance solutions, Ventro services include active and passive fire safety, security, electrical and SIC( Survey, Inspection and Consulting) services across diverse sectors such as social housing, healthcare, education, and facilities management.
Ventro has extensive experience in the housing sector, supporting housing associations and local authorities to ensure residents are kept safe and buildings are maintained to the highest standards. For healthcare applications, the company provides passive and active solutions for hospitals, medical facilities, care homes, and GP surgeries. Educational settings vary in structure and function, from classrooms and laboratories to accommodation and recreational areas, as do government buildings, with each presenting unique fire risks that require tailored fire safety protocols. Ventro is also a key partner to some of the largest names in the UK’ s facilities management and commercial sectors.
“ My brother and I founded Ventro in 2014,” opens Harvey Melvin, CEO.“ We started off in passive fire protection, providing core products from fire doors and fire stopping to improve building compartmentation. As we grew further, we moved into active fire safety, systems such as fire alarms, emergency lighting, sprinkler systems, AOVs etc. More recently we have moved into areas of compliance beyond fire safety, such as electrical, security, water and air to support the company’ s future growth and add convenience for our customers.
“ In 2020, we established our sister business, Firntec, which offers surveys and consulting, with a view to providing end-toend fire safety and wider building compliance solutions. We support many of our customers in meeting the requirements of regulation including the recent changes instigated by the Building Safety Act. Through our consultancy services we also advise multiple customers’ fire safety teams and boards assisting them in making compliance-driven decisions.
“ We’ ve worked with various social housing providers for several years, as well as other areas of the public sector such as NHS facilities and universities, and we’ ve built a specialist knowledge base within each industry. Over the last five years or so, we’ ve expanded into the commercial sector with large blue-chip clients like Tesco.”
Strategic acquisitions
In recent years, the industry has faced significant change and increased compliance demand, largely as a result of the Grenfell tragedy in 2017.“ Our customers are more
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