Air
Hygiene Services Birmingham
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Concept Environmental
Air Hygiene in Birmingham
From kitchen extract to full ventilation systems, air hygiene services in Birmingham keep your building safe, compliant and running efficiently. Concept Environmental handles all of it across the West Midlands. We’re a BESA member and NAAD-accredited, with a Midlands office near the NEC, over 60 specialists and four UK offices behind us, so the work holds up at audit. Our scope takes in ductwork hygiene, AHU cleaning, kitchen extract, fire damper testing and indoor air quality monitoring. To talk through your building, call 07481 155 164 or request a quote.
What We Can Do...
Maintaining good quality ventilation within a building is every bit as important as maintaining water quality yet perhaps because we cant see air/take it for granted, the focus on the air that we breathe isn’t the same as it is for water we digest. Landlords and employers are legally obliged to provide healthy working environments and the recent Covid pandemic has further emphasised the need for improvement in ventilation standards.
What are air hygiene services?
Air hygiene is the inspection, cleaning and certification of everything that carries air through a building, including ductwork, air-handling units, fans, coils and the extract above commercial kitchens.
Two BESA standards anchor it. TR19® Air for general ventilation and TR19® Grease for kitchen extract. Both exist because neglected systems cause genuine problems. In kitchen extract, the issue is accumulated grease and the fire it can feed. In general ventilation, it’s the dust and debris that build up to grow bacteria, lower air quality and restrict airflow, which drives fans harder and pushes energy costs up.
Air hygiene deals with all of it and gives you the certification to prove it’s been done properly.
Who needs air hygiene services in Birmingham?
Ventilation hygiene is a duty several regulations enforce, not a discretionary nicety. Regulation 6 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 requires enclosed workplaces to be effectively ventilated. COSHH covers local exhaust ventilation; and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 makes grease-laden kitchen ductwork a fire risk the responsible person must manage.
That captures much of Birmingham’s building stock. The manufacturing and logistics sites across the West Midlands run extract and LEV systems that need regular attention. Commercial kitchens, hotels and the city’s hospitality venues need their extractors cleaned to schedule. Leisure centres and swimming pool plant rooms demand careful hygiene, hospitals must satisfy HTM 03-01, and schools and offices rely on clean, working ventilation too.
There’s a commercial driver alongside the legal one, as insurers increasingly require proof of TR19-compliant cleaning before they’ll provide cover.
Standards and compliance
The standards governing this work are long established. BESA’s TR19® Air (2024) sets the benchmark for ventilation systems and TR19® Grease for kitchen extract, backed by HTM 03-01 in healthcare, BS EN 15780 for assessing ductwork cleanliness and DW/144 for ductwork construction. Legally, the work supports the Workplace Regulations 1992, the Fire Safety Order 2005 and, for extraction, COSHH.
Under TR19® Air, systems are graded by occupancy, Low, Medium or High, which fixes the cleanliness standard and inspection interval. TR19® Grease, in turn, links cleaning frequency to use, from light to medium to heavy.
After a clean, post-clean verification testing (PVT) confirms grease has been brought below 0.3 g/m², and we issue a certificate that stands up for both compliance and insurance.
Our air hygiene process in Birmingham
The process is designed to be thorough without holding up your operation.
- Free site survey: We visit to assess the systems, judge their condition and check the access involved, so the quote reflects the real scope.
- Pre-clean assessment: Baseline readings and photographs capture the starting state, giving a measurable point of comparison.
- Method statements and scheduling: You receive RAMS in full, and we set a programme around your hours, with nights and weekends included, where that works better for the site.
- Mechanical cleaning: Technicians clean the full system to the applicable TR19® standard, including ductwork, AHUs, fans, coils, kitchen canopies, fire dampers and LEV, fitting access panels where needed and making good afterwards.
- Post-clean verification: A final test confirms the system meets the standard, and you get a certificate and photographic report for your records.
It’s all handled in-house, end to end, and since much of it is least disruptive out of hours, we’re set up for evening and weekend work. Our Marston Green base keeps response times short across Birmingham and the wider region.
Why choose Concept Environmental in Birmingham
Air hygiene rewards experience and accreditation in equal measure, and Concept brings both. We’re a BESA member and NAAD-accredited, with UKAS, BSRIA, SafeContractor, CSCS and ARMA alongside.
More than 90 years of combined experience, over 60 specialists and four UK offices mean we can resource anything from a one-off kitchen clean to a rolling, estate-wide programme. Being part of the Celnor Group adds wider compliance capability including water, air and fire safety — when a project calls for it.
And our Midlands Regional Office gives Birmingham a nearby team and a dependable response.
Midlands Regional Office: 94 Bell Lane, Office 12, Marston Green, Birmingham, B33 0HX. For more information call 07481 155 164.
Areas we cover across Birmingham
From Marston Green, close to the NEC and Birmingham Airport, our air hygiene teams cover the breadth of the West Midlands. We work across Birmingham city centre and out through Solihull, Sutton Coldfield and Edgbaston, around Digbeth and Marston Green, and on to Wolverhampton, Coventry, Walsall and Dudley. The region’s manufacturing base, its hospitality and leisure venues and its public sector estate keep our technicians busy across the patch. If your premises sit beyond these towns, get in touch, as we regularly travel further for the right project.
Our Birmingham office
94 Bell Lane, Office 12, Marston Green, Birmingham, B33 0HX
Tel: 07481 155 164
Our Midlands Regional Office at Marston Green is minutes from the NEC and Birmingham Airport, and runs our air hygiene work across the West Midlands, including Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Dudley. It suits the manufacturing, automotive and public sector sites that fill much of the regional schedule. With local teams, we can typically survey a Birmingham site within a day or two, and often faster for urgent jobs.
NAAD Membership
As part of our commitment to providing the best possible levels of service we embrace the knowledge bases that are available to us which is why we are members of numerous industry bodies including The National Association of Air Duct Specialists (NAAD). Please click below to view our certificate of membership’
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Legionella Awareness Training
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Fire Safety
Fire safety should always be at the forefront of anyone responsible for health and safety in the working environment.
Air Hygiene FAQs
Both are BESA standards, but they cover different systems. TR19® Air deals with general ventilation for supply and extract ductwork, AHUs and the like, and sets cleanliness levels by building occupancy. TR19® Grease deals specifically with kitchen extract, where the concern is accumulated grease and the fire risk it brings. Most buildings need TR19® Air; any with a commercial kitchen needs TR19® Grease as well.
TR19® is a standard rather than a law in itself, but it’s the recognised route to proving you’ve met legal duties. The Fire Safety Order 2005 and the Workplace Regulations 1992 require fire risk and ventilation to be managed, cleaning to TR19® and holding the certificate to show proof of completion. Insurers and enforcing officers also expect to see it, so in practice, it’s hard to do without.
For general office ventilation, TR19® Air links frequency to occupancy: a typical medium-occupancy office tends to be inspected and cleaned around every two years, with heavily used or high-occupancy spaces needing it more often. The reliable answer comes from an inspection. We can assess your system’s condition and set a sensible interval rather than guess. Kitchen extract follows a separate, more frequent schedule.
Yes. We record the system’s condition before we start, with measurements and photographs, then run post-clean verification testing afterwards to confirm it meets the relevant TR19® standard, below 0.3 g/m² of grease for extract. You receive a certificate and a before-and-after report, which evidences the work for compliance and insurance and gives you a clear baseline for next time.
Yes. Our Marston Green office is placed to serve the whole West Midlands, with Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley and the towns in between. We take on single sites and multi-site programmes across the region, which suits clients with premises spread across several locations. And with four UK offices, we can usually help beyond the West Midlands too.
Yes. Alongside duct and extract cleaning, we inspect and test fire dampers, a requirement under the Fire Safety Order, and we service and test local exhaust ventilation (LEV), which COSHH requires to be examined regularly. Keeping these in-house means your ventilation compliance sits with one provider on one coordinated schedule, rather than several.
Book a free site survey
Protect your building and your compliance in one move. For air hygiene services in Birmingham, kitchen extract, ductwork, AHUs and more, speak to Concept Environmental’s Midlands team. Call 07481 155 164 or book your free site survey.
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