Amthal has won a planned maintenance contract for security and life safety systems at Barnet and Southgate College, covering the college’s three main sites.
Barnet and Southgate College operates campuses in Barnet, Southgate and Colindale, serving students across academic, vocational and technical courses. Its estate includes teaching buildings, workshops, specialist learning spaces and communal areas with heavy daily footfall.
Under the contract, Amthal will maintain intruder alarms, fire alarms, Paxton access control and IP CCTV systems across the college. The work also includes system monitoring and technical support, aimed at keeping the systems compliant and operational across the estate.
College managers said bringing several systems under one provider should improve consistency across sites and reduce fragmentation in maintenance management.
“Managing life safety and security systems across three busy campuses requires a joined-up approach. We consolidated maintenance under a single provider to ensure consistent performance, improved visibility and reduced fragmentation across systems and sites. At this scale, reliability, fast fault response and coordinated maintenance planning are essential to minimise disruption to teaching and campus activity. Having Amthal in place gives us confidence that fire, intruder, access control and CCTV systems are managed within a consistent framework, supporting safeguarding and operational continuity across the college,” said Pritesh Dattani, Soft Facilities Manager, Barnet and Southgate College.
The scale of the college’s installed systems illustrates the operational demands of the contract. The intruder alarm estate includes 800 circuits linked to 10 monitored panels across multiple buildings and departments.
Its fire alarm network comprises 1,569 devices connected through 15 networked panels. Access control is managed through 483 Paxton-controlled doors, while 452 IP CCTV cameras monitor key internal and external locations.
These systems support day-to-day estate management as well as safeguarding and incident review. For a further education provider spread across several sites, maintaining continuity across interlinked security and safety infrastructure is as much a practical facilities issue as a compliance matter.
Estate support
Alongside routine maintenance, Amthal is also supporting installation work carried out by the college’s contractors. This is intended to help new systems integrate with existing infrastructure as the estate develops.
The arrangement gives Amthal a broader support role beyond scheduled servicing. In practice, this means working with the college and third-party contractors to maintain consistency across older and newly installed systems.
Amthal said the contract reflects the complexity of maintaining integrated systems in a large education setting. Its work spans life safety and physical security systems that must operate across busy campuses with different access patterns and varied building uses.
“This contract reflects the importance of maintaining fully integrated life safety and security systems across a large multi-site education environment. Our focus is on ensuring all systems are maintained in a way that supports reliability, compliance and operational continuity across the college estate. By working closely with the college and its contractors, we can help ensure both existing infrastructure and new installations continue to operate as a connected and dependable system across all three campuses,” said David Williamson, Business Development Manager, Amthal Fire & Security.
