Kent holds a large share of the South East's mid-rise and high-rise stock outside London, from Medway waterfront developments to town-centre blocks in Maidstone and Ashford, and much of it still carries external-wall defects with 2029 and 2031 deadlines attached. AMPM Building Services delivers cladding and external-wall remediation to PAS 9980 FRAEW outcomes for housing associations, managing agents, developers and main contractors across the county, with occupied buildings kept safe and residents kept informed throughout.
Kent's residential growth has run along its motorway corridors: the M25 fringe at Dartford and Sevenoaks, the M20 through Maidstone and Ashford, and the M2 through the Medway towns of Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester. That growth produced a generation of rainscreen and rendered blocks that now need their external walls brought up to the standard a FRAEW demands. We take a building from an assessment's findings through to a fully documented remediated wall: cladding and rainscreen replacement, combustible insulation replacement, cavity barriers and fire-stopping, all delivered under CDM 2015 with golden-thread records that stand up to Building Safety Regulator scrutiny. We work to the outcomes of a PAS 9980 appraisal carried out by others; we do not undertake the FRAEW itself or issue EWS1 forms. Behind the new company sits the 29-year delivery record of our sister company Gemini AMPM.
In most cases, yes. We phase external-wall remediation elevation by elevation, maintain fire safety and escape routes throughout, and agree a resident communication plan with the building owner or managing agent before work starts. Decanting is the exception, not the default, and where it is needed the phasing plan makes that clear early.
You need the assessment first. A PAS 9980 FRAEW is carried out by a competent fire engineer or assessor appointed by the building owner; we do not undertake the appraisal or issue EWS1 forms. Once the assessment sets out what the wall needs, we price and deliver the remediation to that outcome, including the golden-thread records that evidence it.
Burgess Hill sits on the A23 with fast access to the M25, M20 and M2, so west Kent sites such as Sevenoaks and Dartford are typically within an hour and the Medway towns and east Kent not much further. Remediation projects run from site for their duration with a dedicated site team, so the head-office distance has no bearing on day-to-day delivery, and our 24-hour line (0330 043 0080) covers anything urgent.
Yes. We are set up to deliver remediation funded through the Cladding Safety Scheme, developer remediation contracts or building-owner funding, and we structure our reporting, valuations and records to match the evidence those programmes require. With statutory deadlines of 2029 for government-funded schemes and 2031 for the wider stock, we would encourage Kent building owners to get delivery partners engaged early.
A named contact, not a sales team, comes back within 24 hours. Include the package, programme and stage if you can.