About the FDS Group

Whilst working as fire engineering consultants, Gerard Sheridan and fellow founding director Andy Riley, developed an innovative design for a mechanical smoke ventilation system.

This proved to be a flexible, high performance and cost-effective solution to smoke ventilation. After conducting substantial product testing and development the system was ready to install on projects.

However, when Gerard and Andy were unable to find a suitable contractor to satisfactorily perform the installation. This informed the decision to set up FDS Group, as a specialist contracting company.

20th Anniversary

With the FDS Group now approaching its 20th year of trading and a largely expanded workforce in a cross-division of business sectors, the innovative solutions-driven approach still remains at the core values of the company today. Our focus remains firmly on our clients, meeting their project needs for fire safety and delivering cost-effective and reliable fire safety systems.

With this in mind, we have decided to restructure the group to better suit our client’s needs. Client satisfaction is our key objective and this is illustrated by our growing portfolio of repeat clients and why we work with many of the UK’s largest developers and contractors.

The FDS Group

The business units are now known as FDS Contracting, FDS Maintenance and FDS Consult (UK).

As the name implies, FDS Contracting is the contracting part of the business and will no longer cross over the other disciplines. Similarly, FDS Maintenance is a standalone maintenance company servicing both FDS and 3rd party non-FDS installed systems. FDS Consult (UK) is purely responsible for fire consultancy and will no longer be taking on contracting or maintenance work.

FDS Group will continue to lead innovation, providing systems that achieve the highest standards of safety and building regulations compliance whilst also considering the client’s commercial objectives such as space maximisation and construction costs.