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Ryman Healthcare retirement villages


The project

Ryman Healthcare has a series of retirement villages all over New Zealand. The retirement villages pose some particular challenges for fire safety systems, for instance with dementia wings having the ability for full lockdown to keep patients safe. While alarms have to allow people to escape a potential fire, it must have safeguards to prevent vulnerable patients from wandering off.

The role of AFS Total Fire

AFS Total Fire has worked with Ryman Healthcare on a number of projects already, designing and installing systems that combine sprinklers and alarms. “We have significant expertise in the design, layout and programming of these facilities,” says project manager Daren Green.

What our partners say

Tom Brownrigg, Construction Manager for Ryman Healthcare, agrees. “We wouldn’t have used AFS Total Fire for five villages so far if we didn’t have confidence in them. For a start, they’re price competitive. We have tight timelines and they’ve kept right up with them. We also appreciate their ability to take care of the ongoing servicing contracts for our facilities. We find AFS Total Fire a proactive subcontractor that solves problems without running to us all the time. They’re very easy to work with.”