What goes wrong here
Construction sites share a set of problems that almost nothing else does.
- The site changes every week
- Camera positions that covered the compound in March are pointing at a finished wall by June. Detection has to be re-set as the site develops, not fitted once and forgotten.
- Everything valuable is outdoors
- Plant, fuel, cable, copper and materials sit in the open. There is no building to lock and no perimeter that was designed to keep anyone out.
- The perimeter is temporary
- Heras fencing, a gate and a hoarding. All of it moves, and all of it can be lifted.
- Deliveries and late work are normal
- A vehicle on site at eight in the evening might be theft or might be your groundworks contractor catching up. Somebody has to know the difference before a response is sent.
- The loss is rarely just the asset
- A stolen generator is a day of programme. Cut cable is a week. The insurance claim is the small part.
What we watch
What we watch on a construction site, and why.
- Detection lines, not motion alarms
- Cameras are set to look for people crossing the boundaries that matter — the compound, the fuel store, the plant line — rather than alarming on every fox and every headlight. An operator sees the crossing, not a night of false activations.
- Temporary alarm systems
- Fire and intruder systems on construction sites are usually temporary by definition. We can arrange monitoring for temporary installations as readily as permanent ones.
- Keyholding and response
- We hold keys and attend, so a site manager is not driving across three counties at two in the morning to look at an open gate.
- Officers when the site needs one
- Some phases need a person — a handover week, a high-value delivery, a site that has already been hit. Static or mobile officers for as long as that lasts, and not a day longer.
The same for every site we watch
What happens when it goes off
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Signal arrives
An activation, a detection or a condition threshold reaches the control centre.
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An operator assesses it
Before anyone is called. Every activation is assessed; a passing animal and a person crossing a line do not get the same response.
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The ladder starts
Named contacts in the order agreed with you, with the times each is available.
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Someone attends, or does not
A keyholder, our own response, a guarding partner, or a direct call to the emergency services — whichever your arrangements say, at the time we are working to.
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It is logged and reviewed
Arrangements are checked periodically and after any incident.
Nothing is connected until the arrangements are written down and agreed, and nothing goes live untested. The full sequence is set out in our operational arrangements.
What shapes the cost
Number of cameras and how often the detection needs re-setting as the site develops, whether response comes from our own teams or a partner at that distance, and how long the site will run.
We would rather tell you what drives the number than make you ask. What it costs sets out how a price is put together on any site.
Want to see how we would cover this site?
Tell us what is there and what worries you about it. We will tell you honestly whether monitoring is the answer.